1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,040 ABIBSAT exams y'all might hate them but I fucking love them 2 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,440 all right you know what time it is it's time for the pop out and today we're 3 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:31,000 talking standardized tests and I gotta tell you something I've been teaching 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,760 students on how to take standardized tests for two decades and you know I 5 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,400 really love them I love them with a passion especially the SATs especially 6 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:47,640 the one that I think a lot of students hate absolutely despise and I want to 7 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,320 say a little bit about why and also get you to better understand why these 8 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,880 standardized tests actually exist why some places require them and whether you 9 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:03,440 should actually take these standardized tests and when it makes sense to do so 10 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,300 and when not to okay so let me first break it up into two sections here so 11 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:13,120 first I want to talk about the SATs and everything I say about the SATs also 12 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:20,160 applies for ACT exams and then in a separate section I'll talk about AP 13 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,760 exams and IB exams the ones that are supposed to be college equivalents okay 14 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,440 okay so what exactly is the purpose of these standardized tests at least with 15 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:35,560 the SATs okay the reason that the SATs are taken seriously as a form of met as 16 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:41,480 a metric for college admission is that you know high school GPAs can be 17 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,440 misleading I think I've mentioned this before right like every high school is 18 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,560 different there could be great inflation you don't know what the students are 19 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,280 actually learning at least in detail and so these standardized tests are a way to 20 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,440 indicate whether or not you're learning the things that you probably should be 21 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:01,080 learning at the high school level so that you are prepared to tackle the work 22 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,360 at the college level and I think I've mentioned this before right there's been 23 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:10,680 data that's been put out there about the correlations between SAT scores and your 24 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,640 first year success at colleges and there are some correlations not as if like 25 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:19,200 standardized tests don't indicate something now these this that is muddy 26 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,080 so I don't want you to think like oh if you could do on your SATs you're 27 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:27,080 definitely do one college it's not what it is but you know I noticed in teaching 28 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,560 the SATs I've noticed that there's things that are taught in the SATs that 29 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,600 students should know for college for college courses that they should already 30 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,000 have knowledge of before they start college yet it's not necessarily taught 31 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,800 at every high school or if it's taught it's not taught well or it's not taught 32 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,880 completely okay so I'm gonna explain exactly what it is what it is that you 33 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,320 should be learning from preparing for the SATs and why most of you probably 34 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:03,600 should if not take them at least you know practice them right okay so you know 35 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,040 SATs are broken up into different sections there's like reading and 36 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,880 writing and then there's math every year you know the exact format of the exam 37 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,320 number of questions the number of sections etc the types of questions they 38 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,440 change you know I think I've seen it from my in my time teaching this right I 39 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,280 seen it change and go back and then we'll make some edits usually every like 40 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:32,640 four to five years there's a decent shift and it's for different reasons okay 41 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:39,640 but what exactly is the SATs there to do like I said it's to kind of give a 42 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,360 standardized way of assessing how to interpret grades all right I think that's 43 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,840 one of the things that it actually does right so when you're thinking about why 44 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,320 should I even consider taking the SATs right one of the reasons is that you 45 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,800 know if they had to just if a school had to solely rely on your grades to figure 46 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,320 out whether you're or not you're ready for college okay it's like an incomplete 47 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:05,160 picture right it's like they're gonna have to gamble but if your grades also 48 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,160 are reflective of you know the ability to do the work in college as represented 49 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:15,160 in your SAT score then you have now two metrics that gives the college of 50 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,520 mission some faith that you could handle college-level work I don't know if that 51 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,880 makes any sense right in a similar fashion right if you have a high GPA but 52 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,400 a low SAT score they might be worried that maybe the high school wasn't as or 53 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,700 the coursework wasn't as rigorous and so you're able to get high grades but it's 54 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:36,880 not reflective of the amount or the quality of the education you received 55 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:42,120 right that's evidenced by your SAT score okay well alternatively you might have 56 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,680 gone to an extremely competitive high school and so your GPA might not be the 57 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,400 highest but then your SAT scores are off the charts indicating that so there's 58 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,360 some right discrepancy indicates something right that you're capable of 59 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,780 doing the work all right you're knowledgeable about you know the basics 60 00:04:57,780 --> 00:05:02,440 that you need to know for college like the reading and writing skills but it's 61 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,000 not reflected in your GPA for some reason or another what that is you could 62 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,400 try to explain it in your personal statement right so the standardized test 63 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,320 again is in one of many metrics right so I want to just kind of make sure that we 64 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,600 have the right picture of why standardized tests are used and why 65 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 they're asking for it right it's not necessarily that that's the be all end 66 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,380 all right it's just one more data point for them to use to complete the picture 67 00:05:27,380 --> 00:05:33,320 of who you are as an applicant okay which means that the absence of a 68 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,520 standardized test also indicates some concern right why did you choose not to 69 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,200 take a test now there might be good reasons for it there's a lot of schools 70 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,860 now especially after the pandemic that continue to not require the SAT score 71 00:05:45,860 --> 00:05:51,380 right but you know it's kind of like an unspoken thing right where yeah it's not 72 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:58,120 required but if you don't submit your SAT scores it might raise some questions 73 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:03,640 why did you not submit an SAT score why did you not even take the SATs right is 74 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:08,000 there something you're trying to hide all right the ideal application is going 75 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,560 to have your SAT scores and it's going to reflect what your GPA already reflects 76 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:18,280 it's going to reinforce what your GPA already reflects okay so ideally I 77 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:24,440 usually recommend students take the SATs take it seriously study for it and take 78 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,160 it and try to do well in it okay does that mean you have to submit the scores 79 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,520 to colleges no you could choose to submit them or not that's up to you you 80 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,080 could indicate which ones you want to submit whether or not you want those 81 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:42,320 scores submitted but you know you should at least take seriously the idea of 82 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,440 taking the SATs right if you already know that you do fairly well on the 83 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,640 SATs it might be worth putting a little more energy especially early on in your 84 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,600 high school career to see if you could do well on the PSAT because there's 85 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,320 scholarship implications with that so that's money on the table here but you 86 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,780 know generally speaking the recommendation I give students is if you 87 00:07:03,780 --> 00:07:08,560 are able to take the SATs and it's not going to hurt you it's only going to 88 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,240 reinforce what they already know from your GPA it's better to at least take 89 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:19,040 the SATs okay all right that's that I'll say a little bit more about when it 90 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,400 might not make sense to take the SATs but it's fairly rare right but even if 91 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,280 you don't choose not to take the SATs right I think you should study for for a 92 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,320 lot of reasons right like I said there's a lot that's not covered in some high 93 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,920 schools right I'll give you one example of this I teach I taught reading and 94 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,840 writing mostly on the SATs though I have and I'm able to teach math the math 95 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:45,440 section of the SATs as well okay but the the SATs are testing for something 96 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,880 that's a little bit different that's not necessarily same I should say then what 97 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,240 high school curriculums actually cover right so in the writing section for 98 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:01,400 instance there the the SAT you know reading and writing is testing for 99 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,880 reading comprehension which you know your GPA might not necessarily reflect 100 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,560 just how good you are at reading comprehension okay and this is the kind 101 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,760 of reading comprehension that is not the same as you would do in like a advanced 102 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,380 English class this is just basic reading comprehension this is just basic if you 103 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:24,320 read a passage do you understand what the passage is saying and specifically 104 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,480 the SATs like to include a lot of passages with different styles of 105 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,960 writing that are going to be more reflective of what you should have been 106 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,280 learning in high school which is the range of types of writings that you 107 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,040 should be able to read and understand right whether it's in the social 108 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,720 sciences or whether it's in English whether there's a work of literature 109 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,160 whether it's a research paper right ideally all right this is why the 110 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,960 SATs have changed are constantly working to try to make it a better metric for 111 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,720 whether or not you're prepared by including the kind of things that you 112 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,120 should already know how to do right you should know how to read for instance a 113 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,720 graph and understand what the graph is trying to communicate you should be able 114 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,040 to read an academic paper because that's what you're gonna do in college right so 115 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,800 if you're doing poor in and you're on your SATs right and it's not like an 116 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,320 issue of test taking skills it's just simply you just are not able to 117 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,920 comprehend what you're reading when you're doing these practice tests 118 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,360 that's probably an indication that whatever education you're getting in 119 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,800 high school you're gonna have to supplement it in some ways in order for 120 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:31,400 you to be better prepared to do well at the college level right and the writing 121 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,040 for instance right I've learned that from my teaching that most high schools 122 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,960 just I think they said students have told me like they learn a little bit of 123 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,680 it here and there but there's no comprehensive set of lessons that they 124 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:48,680 receive on the basic rules of grammar in English okay and that's kind of odd for 125 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:52,800 me to hear in part because I definitely got rules of grammar when I was taking a 126 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,140 foreign language right if you take a Spanish class a French class you know 127 00:09:57,140 --> 00:10:02,480 any class at all right in a foreign language you're probably gonna learn you 128 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:07,320 know strict rules of grammar or at least like the ones that you are most of the 129 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,680 time correct there's sometimes irregular verbs and things like that but you know 130 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:16,240 a lot of times right you're gonna learn formally the rules of grammar and so I 131 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,480 was surprised to see that a lot of high school students never end up learning I 132 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,360 mean I didn't learn it necessarily in high school either I was just surprised 133 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,600 that it's being asked for on the SATs and that's not being necessarily being 134 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,320 taught in class but the results of that is that a lot of students end up not 135 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,720 understanding the basic rules of grammar and making fairly basic 136 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:40,960 grammatical errors right so the SATs one thing that it does is it kind of forces 137 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,160 you to learn this right like it forces you to learn the things that you should 138 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:50,280 be learning to prepare yourself for college right I understand that nowadays 139 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:55,280 there's technologies that allow you to you know edit your grammar right like 140 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,600 grammar check spelling check these are all things right but you know if you're 141 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,160 taking an in-person exam and you have to write something out in class right like 142 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,800 it's gonna be glaringly obvious if you have terrible spelling and terrible 143 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,400 grammar right so these are the kinds of things where you should be aware of it 144 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,280 and the rules are fairly ironclad right the way the SATs are designed is that if 145 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:22,060 there's not a specific rule that can be you know referenced as a reason for the 146 00:11:22,060 --> 00:11:26,080 correct answer being the correct answer then it's just not a question they're 147 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,600 gonna use on the SATs in other words right these are pretty ironclad rules 148 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,880 these are not like obscure grammar rules these are basic rules about subject verb 149 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:40,040 agreement about whether or not to use which or you know that right how to use 150 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:45,160 demonstrative you know pronouns like pretty basic rules of grammar right so 151 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:51,080 if you're doing poorly on the SAT practice tests that you're taking then it 152 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,520 is probably an indicator that you should probably brush up on some of this content 153 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:01,720 here like I said it doesn't require you to go through some expensive SAT course 154 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,720 right if you have the discipline all you need to do is borrow one of these books 155 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,560 from the library that talk about what's on the SATs and they actually have a 156 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:14,400 list of grammar rules and then if you want more you know practice questions so 157 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,800 that you could really practice your grammar skills there's like plenty of 158 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,960 things nowadays on the web on websites where they'll just have a list of grammar 159 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,280 questions that you could you know use I don't know if that makes any sense at 160 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,080 all but you know again the the opportunities out there for you to get 161 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,480 better at this right okay similarly with reading skills reading skills a little 162 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,360 bit harder but you know the the only way to really improve your reading skills is 163 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,920 just to read a lot I mean and you just need to read a lot of actual text right 164 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,080 and yeah I was surprised to find that a lot of students haven't read primary 165 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,880 text and that is genuinely concerning in part because you're gonna be expected to 166 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,840 read primary text when you get to college right so if you've never read 167 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,120 for instance the Federalist Papers or the US Constitution in its entirety 168 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,800 right that's a serious problem it's a different style of writing right it's 169 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,360 the kind of language that is used in legal documents it's the kind of 170 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:14,080 language that becomes a foundation for all of Western you know civilization so 171 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:19,080 you know if you're not able to read for instance the US Constitution and 172 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,520 understand it that's gonna be a serious problem not only if you're choosing to 173 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:28,320 go to law school but also for basic philosophy and sociology classes we're 174 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,640 gonna be asked to read primary text right from figures that write in a 175 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:37,600 similar fashion right for instance I teach you know ethics philosophy they 176 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,840 you know we're gonna cover primary text from figures like David Hume and Thomas 177 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,080 Hobbes and these figures write in a very similar fashion is the way that Locke 178 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,960 wrote oh Locke is covered in philosophy right so so these are all gonna be ways 179 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,240 of you know reading comprehension skills that you're gonna need at some point 180 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,600 anyways for your college career which is why it's important for you to 181 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,520 practice it and unfortunately there are a lot of schools where teachers will 182 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,960 not require this reading and so you don't have exposure and you don't know 183 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:12,280 how to read this type of work that's a serious problem that's a serious problem 184 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:18,040 right so I'm not saying that the SATs are great in that you know they are an 185 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:23,480 accurate reflection of your capabilities most schools will give bigger weight to 186 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,800 your GPA because your GPA reflects how you've performed in a law for a longer 187 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:36,540 period of time but the SAT exam does serve as a kind of measuring stick to 188 00:14:36,540 --> 00:14:41,320 compare how your GPA is versus what you're actually capable of doing with 189 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,520 basic reading writing and analytic skills which reminds me like you know 190 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,520 I've talked a little bit about reading and writing you know for math right a 191 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:53,160 lot of students you know think that look oh you know like it's just you know I'm 192 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:57,240 doing like regular math questions like I would in class that's actually not what 193 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:02,120 the SATs are designed to evaluate they're evaluating analytic skills 194 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,320 that's really what they're doing right if you think about it most of the 195 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:10,200 concepts mathematical concepts you that they test you on on the SATs are ones 196 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,000 that are going to be covered in your ninth tenth grade eleventh grade maybe 197 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,080 right but you know it's honestly the concepts themselves are not particularly 198 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,440 difficult it's how you apply them and whether you can manipulate these 199 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,340 formulas and approaches in order to get the answers quickly within the time 200 00:15:26,340 --> 00:15:30,040 frame they give you they're actually testing for your analytic skills not 201 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,640 necessarily math skills and that analytic skill is going to be important 202 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,400 for more than just math right they're not just checking to see if you do well 203 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:43,600 in math they're checking to see if you can analyze problems in an efficient way 204 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,320 to see patterns and to be able to manipulate formulas in order to get the 205 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,200 answer in the most efficient way possible that's really what they're 206 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,920 testing you on right and that skill set is going to be important for all kinds 207 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,760 of fields and that includes the humanities that includes for instance 208 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,040 philosophy in philosophy we teach logic as a central part of philosophy 209 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:08,320 analytic skills and if you don't have that if you if you haven't trained your 210 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:13,960 brain in that way you're gonna really struggle with those classes so I want to 211 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,000 be clear about this right whether or not you like the SATs whether or not you 212 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 think it's fair that students have to take the SATs right just know that the 213 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,440 SATs are there for a reason it's not just some accident right there's not 214 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:30,200 it's not just as if like colleges are saying yeah we're requiring you know you 215 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,600 to take the SATs or we're gonna take SATs seriously just because right just 216 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,520 to make it harder for you that's not what this is right the SATs are meant 217 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,560 to serve as a metric for measuring something and this is exactly what it's 218 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,640 measuring right and I think if you are somebody who is familiar with the test 219 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,480 familiar with what they're actually testing and the kind of motive and the 220 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:57,640 ideas behind it then you have a better idea of why to some degree a test like 221 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:03,680 this is necessary to if anything to get students to supplement their education 222 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:08,240 at school with information that they definitely will need in preparation for 223 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,760 college right so that's why I say like look whether or not you take the SATs 224 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,840 or not right you should at least practice for it you should take some 225 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,440 practice tests oh another thing that will help you with is test taking skills 226 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:27,000 right learning how to test under time pressure knowing about pacing of exams 227 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,840 how to answer multiple-choice questions strategies for answering multiple-choice 228 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,840 questions right like things like this right these are all skills that are 229 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,080 extremely useful extremely helpful when you get to the college level and that's 230 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,360 part of the reason that I think there is some correlation between SATs and your 231 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:45,520 first year success you could learn it while you're in college but why would you 232 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,480 want to do that why wouldn't you want to be prepared for it before you get into 233 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,360 college so that you don't have to learn it on the fly right if that makes any 234 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:57,680 sense so I you know I want to encourage you to practice for the SATs I want you 235 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,920 to learn the things that you might not be learning in your high school that is 236 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,880 being tested on the SATs and like I said you should not be thinking of it as the 237 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,320 be-all end-all don't put too much pressure on yourself and don't feel like 238 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,400 you have to take an SAT course honestly most of the time I find the SAT course 239 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:20,320 to be exhausting long expensive time-consuming we'll talk about this 240 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:24,000 next time but look time is a huge factor right there's better things you could do 241 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,280 than spend an entire summer you know spending 30 40 hours a week preparing 242 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,680 for the SATs right that's a lot of time you could be spent doing other things 243 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,280 that are much more meaningful and maybe even help you with your college 244 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,120 application much more than just you know studying for the SATs right so you know 245 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:45,760 I want you to try to learn to appreciate what the SATs are doing and this again 246 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,320 goes for a CTS as well and start early right I would say like start in ninth 247 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:55,160 grade take some standardized tests okay and I've told you this before right 248 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,860 taking him multiple times already is going to help you taking them under the 249 00:18:59,860 --> 00:19:04,720 appropriate time pressures okay in the appropriate settings like to mimic the 250 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:10,160 settings of test taking day right that's gonna already help you do better on the 251 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,040 exam right just having some practice under your belt is gonna help you but 252 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,440 more importantly I want you to actually look through what's covered in these 253 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:23,160 exams and I want you to make sure I want to absolutely make sure that you are 254 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,440 learning the actual concepts you should be learning the basic grammar rules the 255 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,240 reading skills and I say you need to start early like in ninth grade for a 256 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:37,040 reason right it gives you at least a sense of what you should make sure you 257 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,640 learn in the next several years before you actually take the SATs right and 258 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,960 before you get to college right so it gives you a sense of at least some 259 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,960 basic things you should cover so that you have an eye out for when it's not 260 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:54,200 being covered in your classes but it's also so that you can it's also so that 261 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,080 you can actually develop some of these skills because some of these skills it 262 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,360 takes time right those grammar rules it takes a lot of practice right what the 263 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:03,800 one thing that's nice about the grammar rules is that because they're rules you 264 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:07,240 could learn them a little faster but here's the thing reading skills you 265 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,520 don't learn them overnight the only way to improve your reading skills and I've 266 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,840 had this you know discussion with students many times when they're like 267 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,440 you know I've been reading and reading and trying so hard in the past three 268 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,600 months to improve my reading skills and I just don't seem to be getting any 269 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:25,400 better and I'm like yeah you know why because reading skills take years to 270 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,260 develop right reading skills are a little different than like studying math 271 00:20:29,260 --> 00:20:32,840 and understanding a math concept once you learn a rule grammar rule you know 272 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,960 how to apply it after you do a few practice problems you start to get it 273 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,920 then it's like only the tricky few questions might get you but for the most 274 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,140 part you're gonna understand the rule right but when it comes to reading you 275 00:20:43,140 --> 00:20:47,240 need to start early and you need to read often and you need to read a range of 276 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,920 different works and you need to do it consistently for years before you get 277 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,760 better right reading is one of those skill sets where you know you will not 278 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,440 see progress and you will not see the impact on your score for like a good 279 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,040 year and then all of a sudden there'll be a huge jump because something clicks 280 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,640 that's the way reading skill development works it doesn't happen overnight which 281 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,640 means that you can't expect to cram your way into developing reading skills you 282 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,960 need to start early you need to start like as early as possible in fact you 283 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,640 know I think the data shows right how much you read at a very early age makes 284 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,720 a huge up so this is for you for your parents right get student your kids away 285 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,720 from the TV and then get them into books and nowadays I mean I found this with my 286 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,440 own child right when we go to the library there's a whole section for little 287 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:35,440 kids with they call it graphic novels right I'm essentially comics but 288 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,200 whatever it takes to get them to fall in love with reading once they learn to 289 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,200 enjoy that they'll move on to ones with less pictures and then they'll learn to 290 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,280 go ahead and use their imagination as they learn about life and learn about 291 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,080 more stuff they're able to use their imagination to kind of paint their own 292 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,400 vivid pictures without the pictures being provided and they'll learn to love 293 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,400 reading because they've kind of gotten into it by just exposing themselves to 294 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,680 reading right and they'll even have like preferences for the kind of reading that 295 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,240 they enjoy okay but you need to start early because reading skills cannot be 296 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,640 developed overnight I can't I try to tell students I can't teach you how to 297 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,520 read overnight it's gonna take it's gonna take time it's gonna take time 298 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,760 like reading a passage or something like a particular style of writing for a few 299 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,120 months is not gonna do it right you're gonna have to do it for years and years 300 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:28,360 and years and so there are works that I would highly recommend a range of kind 301 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:32,440 of works that are kind of reflections of the kind of works that you should learn 302 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,040 to read at the college level but I'm telling you that studying for the SATs 303 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,080 will help you with that studying for the SATs they're going to help you get 304 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,520 familiar with the kinds of passages that you're gonna expect it to at least be 305 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,920 able to understand all right and that's what these questions are gonna be asking 306 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,240 they're not gonna ask you for deep metaphors and stuff right that's not 307 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,920 most of these questions are not like anything close to that right most of them 308 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:58,880 is just basic comprehension right what is happening who's doing what right 309 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,240 that's what it has to be the way that these tests are designed has to be 310 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,000 grounded in something that's explicitly written in the text that's the way that 311 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,560 the answers are justified and that's the only way that the question ends up on 312 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,240 the exam okay so take the standardized tests at least the SATs and the 313 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,840 ACTs take them seriously right if you find that you do better on one than the 314 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,000 other that's fine that's fine take the one that will reflect better on you 315 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,280 right you could take practice tests in both and see how you do and whichever 316 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,840 one you seem to do better at because the tests are slightly different whichever 317 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,960 one gives you the higher score right the higher percentile go for it okay there's 318 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,640 one last thing I do want to point right about the amount of time you invest into 319 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:44,960 it if you don't know the SATs there's like a curve that happens right so the 320 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,480 way that you see your actual numerical score I think that's not the thing to 321 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,240 pay attention to I think the thing you should pay attention to is a percentile 322 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,280 okay you want to try to hit the highest percentile right like 90th percentile 323 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,360 would be very very good but I do want to point out something this has to do with 324 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:04,880 statistics and the way that the exam is designed right but the key is this right 325 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:11,960 it is actually fairly well I wouldn't say easy right but it's easier to get 326 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:17,320 from 50th percentile to the 60th percentile than it is to get from the 327 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:23,000 90th percentile to the 92nd percentile right in other words it's easier to 328 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,680 raise your score from let's say if it was I don't know what it is out of now 329 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,680 because I think they recently changed it but let's say it's out of 1800 right if 330 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:36,040 you have a thousand score of a thousand getting it from a thousand to a thousand 331 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,680 two hundred is going to be a lot easier from getting it from like what is it 332 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,480 fourteen hundred to a sixteen hundred right that 200 point jump depending on 333 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:51,080 where it is it's gonna require a lot more work like if you are already in like 334 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:56,080 you know getting like the you know 80th sorry 85th to 90th percentile 335 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,040 especially if you're already hit the 90th percentile it's gonna take an 336 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,960 immense amount of work for you to get from the 90th percentile to the 95th 337 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:09,040 percentile and you need to think carefully is this worth the time because 338 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,200 I'm gonna tell you right now the amount of reading skills you're gonna have to 339 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,960 develop the amount of writing skill you have to develop the amount of analytics 340 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,080 skill you have to develop it's gonna take a year of dedicated work okay I 341 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:27,360 would suggest right that you be mindful of how much time that's going to consume 342 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:32,560 and ask yourself whether it's worth it or if your time is better spent you know 343 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,960 doing extracurricular activities or some you know personal time right like 344 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,400 developing yourself I think last time we talked about learning about yourself and 345 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,480 doing some reflection going to therapy right going on walks and enjoying nature 346 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,680 I don't know right there are other things that are more valuable in life 347 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,840 that I think you need to kind of find a right balance and I'm gonna tell you 348 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:56,880 this right now like if you are in the you know 50th percentile then yes it's 349 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,880 might it's probably worth it to dedicate some energy to bump yourself up because 350 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,000 you're gonna notice a bigger jump much more quickly but once you get up to that 351 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,760 90th percentile it's like man it might also depend on how you feel that day 352 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,240 right or what kind of questions you come across it's gonna be really hard it's 353 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,360 gonna be really hard so there's no need to stress yourself out over getting a 354 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:20,120 perfect score it's not necessary okay once you get to that 90th percentile 355 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:24,160 you're probably fairly good right the key here is this because this goes back 356 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,480 to the question of whether or not you should take the SATs okay if it's going 357 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:36,900 to raise red flags stay away from it okay but if it's going to reinforce what 358 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,800 the what the admission committee already knows then you should definitely take it 359 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:46,040 because it'll help them to alleviate any doubts or anxiety about whether or not 360 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,320 you're prepared right in other words if your SAT scores is pretty on par with 361 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,960 where your GPA is okay it doesn't show like a warning sign like your your SAT 362 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,720 score significantly lower than what you probably should be getting based off of 363 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,800 your GPA then you probably you know if it's not lower and if it's actually like 364 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,720 at the right level then you should definitely take the SATs even if it's 365 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,440 not a perfect score even if it's not you know a near perfect score okay if it's 366 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,240 good enough it's good enough and you should probably take it okay that would 367 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,720 be my recommendation personally all right all right this is a little 368 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,320 different from AP exams okay AP I'm gonna talk about AP exams but I know 369 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:33,040 some places have IB exams okay should I take AP exams should I take IB exams okay 370 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:41,360 if you are taking an AP designated class at school you should definitely take the 371 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:50,400 AP test okay it looks shady for you to take the AP class but not take the AP 372 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,880 exam again this has to do with the way that these metrics line up right if you 373 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:01,280 got an A in your AP class they want to know what the quality of that A is and 374 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,000 at least taking it and at least passing it will give them some assurance that 375 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:12,480 you at least did enough and that this is not just some fake AP class where you 376 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,680 didn't learn anything and then you completely bombed the exam okay does it 377 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,800 make sense so you should be if you're taking an AP class you should be looking 378 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,240 to take the AP test all right because I know that there's an option if you take 379 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,280 the AP class you decide not to take the AP exam you know that it's your choice 380 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,520 but I'm telling you right now like it's not gonna look good if you don't take it 381 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,920 okay there's a second reason you should be taking it right you should be taking 382 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,640 it because you know colleges like to see students who challenge themselves who 383 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,120 are not afraid to go the extra mile and to really see how far they can go 384 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,480 they're not looking for people who are going to you know be too worried about 385 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:54,600 catering their application and to making it look nice by avoiding risk that's not 386 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,880 what they're looking for they're looking for you to take risks and it's okay if 387 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,880 you fail in some of them right as long as you're demonstrating that you're 388 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,720 taking it seriously and if the AP classes are really truly teaching you 389 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,920 what you need to teach or they need to teach you you should be in the minimum 390 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,280 passing the AP exam okay it is suspicious if you don't take it but more 391 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,440 importantly right they want you to take it because they want to see that you are 392 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:28,600 willing to really push yourself okay for that same reason even if an AP exam 393 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:34,000 sorry AP class is not offered at your school if you really like a subject and 394 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,680 you want to take the exam I would look into trying to find a way to take that 395 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:43,080 AP exam some schools will offer the AP exam to anybody well they have to offer 396 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,360 to anybody who wants to take it right but you know sometimes it's not available 397 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,540 for you to take it at your school so you might have to look to taking it 398 00:29:49,540 --> 00:29:54,720 someplace else but there are a lot of subjects you can study for on your own I 399 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,800 told you this before right that for the SATs you could just look up one of these 400 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,400 prep books and then learn everything you need to know okay it's not quite the 401 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:07,640 same with the AP exams but you know you can learn most of the things you need to 402 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:13,580 know to even to at least pass on the AP exams from those prep books plus some 403 00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:16,880 additional resources right for instance like I know that Khan Academy online 404 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:22,560 they have a lot of resources to help you prepare for your AP exams okay you can 405 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,360 actually do that on your own like for instance in the summer you can go ahead 406 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,680 and prepare for it right and then refresh your memory as the school year 407 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:35,760 goes along and then in when May rolls around take the test just take it and 408 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,720 here again there's an indication that you're challenging yourself because the 409 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,000 class might not be offered at school or maybe it's offered but you just can't 410 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,120 take it because your schedule is full with other things that you want to do 411 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:53,080 but you are showing that you're willing to be proactive and study this 412 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,520 material on your own and take it seriously enough that you actually pass 413 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:03,600 the exam okay now I say this with a caveat which is you should not do it if 414 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,640 it's going to hurt you right what I mean by that is you know I think I made this 415 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:15,320 mistake right I made the mistake of taking one too many or two too many AP 416 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,000 exams that I did not take the class for when I was in high school right and I did 417 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,960 terribly on them right but the reason I did terribly is that I couldn't dedicate 418 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:31,280 the time I wanted to them and on top of that I was pretty exhausted during that 419 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:37,400 AP exam time right in May I remember having to take you know tests back to 420 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,200 back right these are three plus hour long tests one after another in a day 421 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,000 and then the next day coming back and taking two more right that actually 422 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,440 wears on you and it actually hinders you from performing your best on test day 423 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,320 it's just really hard switching your gears like that that many times and 424 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,080 cramming that many exams into a short period right so I don't know exactly how 425 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,840 the schedule is gonna look depending on what tests you want to take but you also 426 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,080 want to be mindful not to overdo it alright so I'm not telling you to go 427 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,840 ahead and just sign up for every single one okay what I'm saying is if you want 428 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,840 to take one or two that's not offered at school and or that you can't take 429 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,280 because of scheduling conflict but you really love the topic and you're willing 430 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,720 to dedicate the time to it it is an option for something for you to do okay 431 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:26,800 it is an option for us or something for you to do okay but as always all of 432 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,400 these exams need to be balanced out with other things that are going to show up 433 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:37,640 in your application okay the academic portion is big in the sense that they 434 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,320 need to know that you're ready for college they need to know that you can 435 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,000 hold your own with other students in that particular college with the 436 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,520 standard that that particular college has okay that's what they need to know 437 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,480 this is why when you're applying it's important to look at median SAT scores 438 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:59,120 and like the median what is it GPAs right like looking at what you know the 439 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,960 students that are accepted right where they tend to fall like what range they 440 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,600 tend to fall into right the majority of them it's because it indicates like some 441 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,720 the kind of standard of expectation for what you should be prepared to do when 442 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:19,320 you get to college right but once you've met that requirement right you need to 443 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,120 be mindful of how you balance that time with other things that are going to 444 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,720 really highlight the kind of person that you are that could be a dedication to 445 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,720 sports or particular extracurricular activity or to you know volunteer work 446 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,840 or to personal hobbies or to I don't know what right it there's not anything 447 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,160 particular it's just that you know you want to show that you're more than just 448 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,960 a robot that studies all day if you ever want to know why some of the students 449 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:51,440 who are like valedictorians have the best GPA have a perfect SAT score you 450 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,520 know taking all these AP exams maybe even taking some class at community 451 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,720 college and have some community like college classes under their belt in that 452 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,680 way right why they don't get accepted to some of the more competitive 453 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,920 universities it's because they don't have anything else on their resume or 454 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,800 if they do it's pretty bare-bone why because time is limited we're mortal 455 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,840 okay there's only 24 hours in a day like you there's only so much you can do 456 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,000 before you start ending up making yourself miserable and crashing out 457 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,960 right like you need to have a kind of proper balance and what I'm trying to 458 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,680 indicate is when you're thinking about these standardized tests you need to 459 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:33,480 know when enough is enough all right when enough is enough if you are 460 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:38,320 sufficient in your scores and your preparation and how high you know like 461 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,000 how ready you are for college right if you're showing that in all your metrics 462 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,400 okay at some point you need to tell yourself that's enough it's not worth it 463 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,600 right if you got a near perfect score on the SAT I don't think it's worth it to 464 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,940 take it again to try to get the perfect score that's more vanity mission than 465 00:34:56,940 --> 00:35:00,720 anything else it doesn't actually help you with your application right just as 466 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,040 if you're competing for valedictorian right whether you're first or second in 467 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,160 class it's probably not going to make a big difference okay with the AP exams 468 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:13,680 right just because of that one extra AP test that you took that one test is 469 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,760 probably not going to make a difference if you've done well in all the other 470 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,760 ones that you've taken right so you need to find the right balance and what I 471 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,360 mean by that is when it comes to academics know when enough is enough and 472 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:31,840 once you've achieved enough it's time to make sure that you have everything else 473 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,040 in order okay which is what I'll talk about next time your extracurriculars 474 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:41,440 your personal life right developing relationships learning social skills 475 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,320 right these are all going to be very important factors for your long-term 476 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:51,920 success right work on those okay know when to say that's enough when it comes 477 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,640 to any of these tests I hope that's helpful advice and if you have questions 478 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:02,200 about your specific situation and your dilemmas please YouTube is a place to go 479 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,540 leave your comment there and once you leave your comment there I will do my 480 00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:10,760 best to try to respond to it hopefully within 24 hours but you know life 481 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,800 happens so as soon as I could get to them okay so I would hope to hear from 482 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,200 you and hear about your experiences and the struggles that you're going through 483 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,080 and by the way everything I've said up till now right this also goes for you 484 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:29,220 parents right please don't push your kids beyond the enough okay like don't play 485 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:33,320 this game of I want everything to be perfect right it's just there's only so 486 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,280 much time and energy you could expend on tests all right at some point you got to 487 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,880 realize that getting a higher score on a test is not going to be particularly 488 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,960 helpful okay focus elsewhere all right good luck to all of you and I know that 489 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,600 tests could be anxiety-provoking so I wish you peace as you take those very 490 00:36:51,600 --> 00:37:19,000 stressful exams