SAT Composite Score Analysis

Throughout my 17 years of life I have had many experiences. Some good and some bad, through all of this I have learned a lot as student and person. One experience I had was when I began high school. I began my freshman year not really caring about the amount of effort I should put in. When I was growing up, my parents didn’t enforce sitting down to do homework or projects or the study for quizzes and test. That put a damper on myself, as I lacked the ability and motivation to do those things without procrastination. After my freshman year I was disappointed in myself. I learned from this mistake and grew as a person to truly start to care about doing all the little things to be successful in school. Thereafter my sophomore year arrived and I improved. I did all the little things, maybe not 100% but I was a lot better than before. I got good grades and I was proud of myself. Even though didn’t perform at the top level I am capable of, I know I can

In my personal life I have displayed the quality of determination. During my young adolescent years I was the victim of bullying. Not only did I receive this unfair treatment from my fellow students, but I also received it from an unexpected source- a teacher. After three years of harassment, things finally improved. I went to high school and learned how to defend myself. I gained my self- confidence back and was able to use my experience to help others. During my sophomore year in high-school, I helped launch two clubs. One club was for a free Tibet and the other to help stop bullying in our school and area. Being determined helped me move on from what happened to me and I was able to turn it into something positive that could help others.

I worked just as hard, yet my test results were notably underwhelming in comparison to my ‘top 10’ classmates. What was different about me, I thought every night before I fell asleep. Then I realized, I was alone in my cherishment of extracurricular activities. While my classmates were up late Friday nights studying, I was cheering on the sidelines, exerting myself to pep up the crowd via backflips. When others were reading ahead, I was helping to feed outlying communities. While the ‘top 10’ was still cramming, I was at a Wednesday worship program. I’m committed to giving my complete impetus to everything I take part in, and sometimes, your best isn’t enough for what you want and there is almost nothing you can do about it. This taught me that in order to be truly fulfilled, you need to accept failure as part of your life and learn to move on. Thinking about it, I would not be happier if I quit doing the things I love to study more so that I could be in the ‘top 10’. In fact, I would most definitely be more miserable. Learning to accept failure, I have decided to cultivate my energy into simply giving my all and to welcome whatever rank, or not, I receive with open

I believe in determination, which is what helps me conquer even the hardest obstacles in life. I have come to find that I am most determined when it comes to school; pushing myself beyond the limits. For example, each year at my school, I am given the task of picking out the classes I want to take. This seems like a simple task; however, I am determined to push myself past the requirements. As this one sheet of paper sits in front of me, I sweat about how I will get through my tougher classes and balance my activities after school. That’s when my determination kicks in. I put in my headphones, listen to “Determinate” by Lemonade Mouth, and then I learn how to take life’s obstacles step by step and eventually fulfill all my simple and tough

My first failure discouraged me to the point where, I felt like I would never reach an advanced math level again. The lack of self-confidence that resulted from my sub-par math scores soon began to negatively affect some of my other classes. I quickly realized that the trend had to stop. I worked diligently to achieve what, at the time, seemed unattainable. My change in the outlook of my repeated failures helped me to finally succeed. Throughout the course of the last two years, I have grown more self-aware in my study habits. I push myself even harder when I think I have done the best I can.

I try to do my absolute best or go above and beyond with any work or task given to me. I don’t give up on anything that matters deeply to me. I have on several occasions continued to attend school; even though, I may not feel at all well; because, I know the vitality of school and learning what I need to know for the future. I want nothing more than to accomplish all my goals and dreams, but through it all I must make sure to work my absolute hardest to do so. My determination will cause me to follow all my expectations of succeeding and creating a life for myself that I will enjoy

Failure is not an option. That was instilled upon me at an early. I took this mantra with me when I attended Special Forces Combat Diver School at Key West in 2010. My drowning and subsequent failure at Dive School resided in my mind for months to come. I assumed everything I hope to achieve was lost. After the summer had passed and as the semester was about to begin, I recognized that I could still achieve my goals, but it would take time, dedication, and sacrifice. I had to prove myself above my peers. I was already in my junior year of my Political Science degree with at least 4 more semester’s worth of courses to complete. In addition to my ROTC curriculum and working part time, my academic scheduled was already overwhelming. After detailed research and intensive analysis, I realized I could achieve a second

James S. Murphy wrote about how the SAT is a high Stakes evaluation of enormous magnitude in which colleges use to analyze the readiness and skills of high school students. Some students are not financial stable to pay tutors or discover other resources that enable them to get adequate scores on the various exams. These rigorous exams act as a subject course other than showing students abilities through their academic achievements in high school, something where colleges rather judge students on their SAT to determine if their good enough to attend college. The College Board are now proposing a program named Khan Academy; which better equip students to be prepared and comfortable taking exams under pressure, which allow the programs offer varies

It is important not to be afraid of hard work. This is something I learned from my parents. My parents continued to work on their dairy farm until they were in their sixties. Until I left home I had worked on the dairy farm with my parents. It was our responsibility to care for our animals before we were able to take care of ourselves. My parents gave me a greater appreciation for the necessity for hard work as well as a greater understanding of the need for personal care. Even though my parents needed to care for their animals, they completed hard work at the expense of their own health. I understand that I must work hard to achieve my goals but I also must take care of myself to be effective at my

A particular stressful situation that occurred within the last year was my unrealistic goal to become Personal Trainer certified through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) in three-months (over the summer). What made this goal difficult was the fact that it took me a long time each day to finally sit down before my book to study, there were days I had to take care of my grandma in place of her other caregiver, spending too much time at the gym, wasting time on the computer, wasting time on my phone and on social media, and consecutive days where I pushed studying off. All of these points really made focusing on studying hard. Each day my intentions were to get to work and work hard, but just the thought of being in the action of studying repelled me from sitting down and doing so. In all honesty, some days were easier than others, but the majority weren’t as so. To add to all of this, I had the pressure of the promise I’d made to so many people of being certified before starting this last semester of college. Given this goal I had for myself, and knowing that getting focused on the work each day wouldn’t be easy, I had a select few hold me accountable for getting my studying done. The support systems I had in place were my mom, girlfriend at the time, and my dentist, who I was training at night, five-days a week. My mom was definitely the one who was on my case the most about how much I’d gotten done each day—she’d ask every day after work. She was

I want to achieve by participating in the New York Cares SAT Prep program because I need this program to help me with the English skill very much. I immigrated to the US from China 3 years ago. It was a difficult way to me to accept and learn a new language. It took me 2 years to pass ESL from when I only knew very little English words. However comparing to other students who born or live here for long times, my English skill is still very low. I still have to many shortages of English skill to improve in order to catch up the level of being a real English speaker. I real want to go to a good college in order to have a better learning enviroment and education. I believe that that will be the first step of being successful. And I also believe

The series of failures compelled me to worked harder each year. I kept improving my grades, took harder courses and the results started to see as I finally achieved a 4.0 GPA after my last semester. Likewise, my ceiling hitting ego cooled down and I learned how to be humble. Body wise, I started to eat more nutritious foods and developed my passion for running. The failure from a lack of effort during freshman year lead to motivation as I would constantly remind myself about that failure whenever I felt like I had enough with school and all of the workload.

I’ve never been the best student growing up. It was always difficult for me to focus and be motivated into doing my work, especially my senior year in high school. The high school I attended was Nogales High School in Nogales Arizona. That year, to be able to graduate, we had to complete a senior project in which we had to make a report, have a portfolio, and work hours in a career we wanted for our future. My only thought in doing my project on was on firefighting because it was the only thought I had going into once I graduated high school. However, on my spare time I was doing a whole different thing that could determine my future.

I believe that persistence wins out because if you never give up on something then you will be successful in life.This goes back to the start of football and on the schedule it said in big black letters “BEARS TOUGHNESS TEST” and man let me tell you it was so scary just by how it looked. I thought in my mind i'm not going to pass the test. So the times come to go to the high school and I pull up to the school with my heart pumping out of my chest and i'm sweating already. I’m getting out of the car I walked into the gym and sat down.

After starting my first job last year, I have to admit, I’ve often struggled. Trying to uphold a social and family life while working both days every weekend, all while attempting to maintain high grades at school, is tough. It’s a mouthful to say, let alone do! But I’ve not once given up because I refuse to let myself, or anyone else down. I’m committed.