Logic. Just Logic.
The ACT reading sections always have interesting articles that end up engrossing me in the content, making me forget to maintain an analytical mindset while "skimming through." I end up running out of time sometimes, not because the questions stump me, but because I want to absorb every sentence, at times even re-reading a paragraph since the first impression ends up being so great that it requires a second impression just to handle it.
The SAT on the other hand is a bit more of a struggle to get through. The creators so incredibly aware that the topic of wetlands bores the living crap out of high-schoolers that they make it a point to sneak it in as the last prompt of reading on every other test. The final eleven questions, the final stretch of the race, just end up being the toughest drudge of the whole test, like we are marching through a thick sludgy marsh, with the muck absorbing and suffocating 455x the willpower that I used for the previous reading prompts and could've used for the remainder of the test. What a waste. It's not a coincidence that I score worse on an SAT that utilizes the topic of wetlands versus one that doesn't.
So looking at it in this perspective, it's as if colleges are weeding out those who can bear to read and comprehend the topic of wetlands and those who cannot. With an even rasher perspective (cough cough the Troy High perspective), my future is determined by whether or not I get through reading about wetlands. How fantastic. I think I'll send in my ACT score.
During the time of Song of Solomon, not many people even went to college. The SAT existed, but it wasn't as huge of a factor as it apparently is now in determining admittance. I wonder how well Corinthians did. Maybe back then the creators haven't discovered the colossal boredom that the topic of wetlands brings, so they did better on the test, thus having more admittance into colleges. Or maybe not. Milkman is always trying to fly. So are many other characters in the novel. He didn't go to college, and with his hunger for flight, he probably took the SAT, found himself trapped in the wetland section, so ever since he's been trying to fly and escape the mud. It was so traumatizing that even after he took the test he found himself being suffocated by the muck around him and still feels the need to fly away.
In conclusion, even Toni Morrison is subliminally saying that wetlands should be banned from being a part of standardized tests. A change needs to take place now.
The SAT on the other hand is a bit more of a struggle to get through. The creators so incredibly aware that the topic of wetlands bores the living crap out of high-schoolers that they make it a point to sneak it in as the last prompt of reading on every other test. The final eleven questions, the final stretch of the race, just end up being the toughest drudge of the whole test, like we are marching through a thick sludgy marsh, with the muck absorbing and suffocating 455x the willpower that I used for the previous reading prompts and could've used for the remainder of the test. What a waste. It's not a coincidence that I score worse on an SAT that utilizes the topic of wetlands versus one that doesn't.
So looking at it in this perspective, it's as if colleges are weeding out those who can bear to read and comprehend the topic of wetlands and those who cannot. With an even rasher perspective (cough cough the Troy High perspective), my future is determined by whether or not I get through reading about wetlands. How fantastic. I think I'll send in my ACT score.
During the time of Song of Solomon, not many people even went to college. The SAT existed, but it wasn't as huge of a factor as it apparently is now in determining admittance. I wonder how well Corinthians did. Maybe back then the creators haven't discovered the colossal boredom that the topic of wetlands brings, so they did better on the test, thus having more admittance into colleges. Or maybe not. Milkman is always trying to fly. So are many other characters in the novel. He didn't go to college, and with his hunger for flight, he probably took the SAT, found himself trapped in the wetland section, so ever since he's been trying to fly and escape the mud. It was so traumatizing that even after he took the test he found himself being suffocated by the muck around him and still feels the need to fly away.
In conclusion, even Toni Morrison is subliminally saying that wetlands should be banned from being a part of standardized tests. A change needs to take place now.
You actually made this blog really relatable and surprisingly hilarious by how you related the SAT with Morrison and The Song of Solomon. This is a really unique yet stretched prospective on the novel and standardized testing that I really love. Also, this is one of my favorite blogs you have written by far.
ReplyDeleteWell, seeing as how many colleges now rely solely on SAT scores and care little for the ACT, it seems that reading of wetlands is an increasingly important skill, maybe the most important out there, I should make sure to study up on wetlands now, as that is obviously the most important subject I could ever dedicate my time into.
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