Am I Still Smart?

I have always loved school and learning new things. I excelled in my class and tried my very best. I like to think, some may look at as being an over-acheiver or a perfectionist. I attended and graduated from a great college and currently work as a nurse. At times I am impressed with my life's journey and all that I have succeeded.

In order to get where I am today, I passed few easy test and many diffucult ones. I struggled when I felt my head could not longer store any more information. I breathed again when it was all over.

Because I am trying to climb the occupational ladder at work, I started questioning my knowledge. Am I as smart as I was 8 years ago? I decided to take a web-based mini SAT test to test my knowledge. It would be able to tell me my strengths and weaknesses. It was only 20% of the length of an actualy SAT. Here is my story

I sat quietly at the computer. Reading the directions carefully and thoroughly. English was first. I thought to myself, how hard could this be? I read on. I of course knew the answer to the practice question. Now onto the test. There were ten fill in the blanks. fo example: up is to down as left is to _____. Obviously, right (both being opposites). After the first 3 questions I started losing hope. I knew I was not going to do well. Perhaps I would be signifigantly better in math than english - resembling my acutal SAT score. I continued...by question 8 I was finding anything and everything to look at and pay attention to instead of my SAT test. CONCENTRATE I tell myself. I complete section 1/3. Moving on to critical reading. Not excited. This section posted a short story in which one reads and answer a few questions about. I read the few paragraphs about somthing. I can't even remember, but of course it wasn't intersting or fun. I answer knowing I wasn't even readinig the whole question and quickly picking an option to move to the next story. Hoping it would tell a better story than the one I just read. WRONG. I skipped over the paragraphs and went directly to the questions...not such a bad idea I thought. Section 2 completed. Moving on to math. YES, time to strut my stuff. I am feeling a perfect score now. I answer questions 1-3 without difficulty, simple allegrbra questions. The next 7 were impossible. Find x when x does not equel 0, as they show a picture of a circle, with a triangle and a shaded in area labeled x. Find x, its right there on the page. My answer was 5. I am not even sure if that was an option. I complete the last section and am ready for my score.

OVERALL 47% 14/30 right.

WRITING 50% 5/10 right
CRITICAL READING 30% 3/10 right
MATH 60% 6/10 right

What did I learn?

I learned how much I hate the SAT's.