I am preparing to take the CBEST test this Saturday. In high school (yes, I am revisiting the glory days) I was a peer tutor for algebra. But since my statistics class during the first semester of junior college in 2001, I have not taken a math class. I never thought I would be classified as legally retarded. Not until I picked up the CBEST book the other day.
There are many things in there I vaguely remember like the Quadratic equation and the Pythagorean Theorem. But let's be real, I have actually had to sit down and reteach myself how these things are applied. I have graduated from a well-recognized 4-year institution, and have never felt so academically inadequate. Up until this time I have imagined myself to be so well-educated that I shan't need study for such a test. After all, I did graduate high school once. But reviewing these things seems to be more like something from an episode of 'Are You Smarter than A 5th Grader?' At this point in my life, it seems as though all the things I learned in high school have flown the proverbial coup. What I needed to remember, I have. All those other seeming useless facts and equations are tucked away deep into the darkest crevices of my memory bank, locked and blanketed by the covetous protection of what need not be recanted.
This has truly, thus far, proven to be a humiliating experience. In all my years of scholastic things and such, my academic virtues have never been rendered so subject to fleeting insecurities as trying to do something I simply don't remember how to do.
Be not afraid, though. I assure you I will come from that test site Saturday as the victor, and the almighty California Basic Education Skills Test; the defeated.
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I'm sure you're going to do well on the CBEST this weekend. But to guarantee a passing score, you should be familiar with how the test is organized and test-taking techniques for the types of questions contained in each section.
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