Pressure

The National Achievement Test is approaching. We are constantly being reminded of reviewing for the NAT because our city depends on our school. A teacher said that.

Because of that, we have to take a lot of exams to test our knowledge about this subject and that. Last week, we took the MOCK Test given by the Division Office. There were 300 questions. 60 questions for each subject which includes Math, English, Science, Filipino and History. We took the test, I think, 5 hours straight so we were too tired to bother reading the long and numerous texts in Filipino and the wordy questions in History. Filipino and History were the last two tests we took.

We just checked the test results and we were informed about the very low average. We listened to our teacher's criticisms an hour long. He was fuming mad because we got a very low average. He shouldn't scold us. The other sections got the lower scores, so why blame it on us? Grr. He told us how bad our scores were in the English test. I got 12 mistakes in that test and most of them were just plain errors made by the Division Office.

Thursday and Friday will be test days also. Six unfortunate people were randomly picked and they will take the test the DO prepared tomorrow.

Next week is exam week. The first two days will be for the NAT and the rest will be for the periodical exams. And because our division wants to be on top so bad, they're giving out incentives for everyone who will get high scores. The Math department considers the NAT as our periodical exams. 30% of our final grade will be based on the test results. The English department, I think, will get 30% of our final grade from the test results also. In addition to that, students will be exempted from taking the Speech & Drama test if they get a score of 50+. Also, two points will also be added to their final grade.

That's why we have to work real hard.