Aspergers & Standardized Test

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I was wondering if anyone felt better on one standardized test than another. Are you bothered by NCLB and the accuracy of these tests, but not bothered my college or professional exams?

Well, my SAT was better than my ACT, b/c the SAT had the different sections (reading math writing) split and put into smaller portions. I have ADHD so on the ACT I would burn out and want to scream and run out of the classroom.

I'm having to retake my GRE's to raise the score (though I got a 5.5/6 on the writing) cause I'm writing a grant and they said it'd help my chances of being awarded support.

stupid math sections


my parents have always said that i always sucked at taking standardized tests, despite my going to magnet school and doing well academically otherwise.

I don't know what the NCLB is, but I've always done well with standardized tests like the PEP and CTBS tests we took in childhood, the PSATs, SATs, GRE, and the licensing exams I had to take for my teaching certification (LAST and ATS-W).

I obsessed about standardized tests, saw them as a fun intellectual game, and blew most of them away.

The first time I took the PSAT (in middle school), andevery time I took the SAT, and when I took the GRE, I had either _Cats_ or _Jesus Christ Superstar_ running through my head and answered the questions mostly on "automatic."
WHen I took the PSAT "officially," I didn't listen to Andrew Lloyd Webber (one of my obsessive hobbies) that morning, and my mind was "clear." I got stressed out and overthought the test and blew it.