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Fri 12 May, 2006 09:11 pm
I am taking the first MTEL tests tomorrow (MA teacher education license - or something) from 7:45 to noon.
I am freaking out about a variey of things, but oddly mostly about the practicality of the whole test taking process.
I am allowed to bring in water - I'm a grazer, I snack. No food under mental stress freaks me out, especially when I want to perform well. Can I actually choke down some food before 8 am? What food should it be?
I doubt we have a bathroom break. Usually I drink a honking big cuppa joe first thing and then pee three times before lunch. Do I cut back on the coffee? How will that affect my test-taking?
How do I shoot my cat? I have already figured I'll have to screw him over a little bit (poor kitty). I'll shoot him late (very!) and the adjust his schedule over the weekend.
I have 5 sharpened No2 pencils, what if they all break? What if I use up all the erasers?
I can't bring my cell phone. Grr.
<breathing in.....>
And I haven't really given much time to studying.
<....breathing out>
What do I do about my runny nose? I'm not supposed to bring anything with me, but what they require...... will they have tissues to offer or do I need to use my sleave?
Hold your dominion.
Classrooms are coming.
Hold your dominion.
Sigh.... thanks, Noddy.
I am now concerned that maybe I shouldn't take a vitamin before the test because vitamin c is a diuretic. Do you think I think too much? <snort>.
The worst I can do is fail and have to take the test (at $90 a try) over again.
I think you should DEFINITELY have your coffee!
If you need a loo break, someone accompanies you. I know.....but wotthehell? All those nervous people, you won't be alone.
Yes, have low GI breakfast, so you have some energy during the test.
Can you bring in a pack of nuts and dried fruit, perhaps? Great grazing.
Be thinking of you.
I had toast for breakfast. Yep, burnt toast with a little butter. And all that water I brought (a liter) and I drank two sips. I did bring some trail mix (nuts, fruit, chocolate) and had a couple handfuls in the car on the way. I had a smaller version of my usual coffee intake. In the end, I made way too big a deal of it, as usual.
I think the human body goes into a sort of crisis mode during big tests like this. I'm still not hungry.
So I take it the test is over and you're back home. How did the actual test go?
The test is complicated, which I think it is designed to be. There are two parts, reading and writing literacy. Each part has multiple choice (a total of around 90, I think), several short answers written (definitions, sentence rewrites, summarization). And then there is a longer (300-600 word) essay.
The reading multi choice Qs were about short readings, many of which were particularly interesting to me (geology, earthquake). The long essay was about whether violent criminal convicts should be able to profit from their memoirs. Lovely.
littlek wrote:What do I do about my runny nose? I'm not supposed to bring anything with me, but what they require...... will they have tissues to offer or do I need to use my sleave?
job 1: learn how to spell sleave...
ha! (that was cruel, reg!)
(can't help it -- me mudduh was an english teacher...)
MY mother was an english teacher too! I spell a lot of words wrong......
here, lemmee make it up to ya
Actually, RP, I need the pestering, so feel free when the urge strikes you.
i will follow you around the site with my trusty red pen...
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