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psychometric/dont eat more than you can lift!
2001-09-14 2:22 a.m.

super-fly said she read different diaries and was annoyed at how people kept on talking about petty things like their petty love life, while such tragic occurrences happened, and while so many people died.

i don't think it's petty. i don't think that a person's own thoughts, feelings and actions are in any way less important than any other imaginable thing. every human is a world within itself, and so are all the things that come out of him.

just like disasters and death in general are a component of life, so is my pointless infatuation with dor, and so is the fact that i ate today a very disgusting carrot, and so is the fact that i'm right here infront of the computer typing my thoughts away. nothing of it at all is petty. it's all very groundbreaking i tell you.

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this is gonna be boring as hell, but hey i have to deal with it, so why can't you.

the psychometric test is the israeli equivalent of the SAT's.

in order to qualify into a certain university you need a certain grade, and every major has its own qualifications. for example in order to study literature you might need a psychometric score of 650 points and above, and in order to study mathetmatics you probably need at least a score of 710 points.

the psychometric score is not the only criteria that the universities take into consideration. the other criteria is your final high-score grades, also known as the "bagrut" grades. bagrut means in hebrew maturity, so the final bagrut tests are stupidly supposed to be the last step into mature life. HA!!!

the universities give equal importance to the bagrut scores and the psycometric test, and thus the test is as important as ALL the tests i did in the past 4 years in high-school. 4 years versus 4 stupid hours.

the scores of the test range between 200 to 800, and are given in a relative way. thus the person who had the largest number of correct answers out all the people in that test ( which is held every few months) will recieve the grade of 800, and the one with the most mistakes will recieve 200. the calculation system of the grade is complicated, but all in all only about 5 percent of the people doing the test get the grade of 700+, which is the minimum grade for many studies such as law, physics, math, computers, and so on.

the numbers of people tested each time is about 30,000 thousands i think. all questions in the psychometric test are "american" type questions, which means you have 4 answers and you need to choose the right one. guessing all the questions will give you 25% success, which will lead roughly to a grade of 350. BAD!

the test is composed of 3 different chapters:

the "verbal" one - this chapter contains many forms of questions in the hebrew language which test your reading comprehension, you ability to solve logic questions, and your knowldege in hebrew vocabulary.

the "math" one - this chapter contains questions of all kinds in the fields of algebra, geometry, statistics, and so on.

the "english" one - this chapter contains questions testing your english vocabulary and the understanding of it.

each chapter contains about 25 questions, and in each test there are 8 chapters of the 3 different type, each one 25 minutes. thus the whole test is 25x8 minutes - more than 3 hours, of hard hard strenuous brain labor.

there's no easy way to study to the test, since it is supposed to evaluate stuff such as your intelligence and language understanding, but still there are many ways to improve your grade. thus the last couple of days i have been doing 3 hours simulation tests so i'll be prepared on how to handle my time and my brain in the real test, and i have been learning more and more and more hebrew words, words which were probably last used during the bablyonian empire. well maybe not, but still knowing the fact that the right word for the bone of a fish is "idra" doesn't help me shit outside this fucking test. so i'm memorizing words. and more words. and more. and you get the idea. and that's exactly what i'll do when i finish writing this entry. yeepee!

in the demo tests i did i scored once 710 points, and on the second one 728. those are both good grades, but i can do better. i can, if i try hard enough, make it to 750. i should.

one annoying thing though is that a law which cancels the psychometric test has just been initially passed in my congress, and there's a good chance that all my work now will be worthless in a few years. but nobody knows for sure if they truly will cancel the fucking test, and if when, and if the universities really won't demand an SAT grade when someone applies to them.

so WHY am i doing this? the grade isn't that important to me. it might not even matter. i don't know what i wanna study, i don't know where i'm gonna study, maybe not even in israel, i don't know when i'm going to study, hell i don't even know IF i'm going to study in a university. one thing i know is that i WON'T go to a university just cause that's what everyone expects me to do, i'll do whatever seems right to me. which might be studying and might not be. anyway that decision is FAR FAR away, at least 4-5 years away, and that's the last thing on my mind.

but still i'm working my ass on this test not only to secure my future, but mainly to prove to myself that i can. to prove to myself that i CAN study my ass off for something, to prove to myself that i AM highly intelligent, to prove to myself that i CAN be cool during the test and not freak out. i'm usually good at tests, actually i'm usually excellent at tests, and thus i'm optimistic.

and really i have nothing to lose. i don't mind wasting one fucking week until my test so i'll have that behind me and it may or may not help me for the rest of my life. sighhhhhhhh

so my test is on the 24'th, in a week and a half. hold your fingers for me, and just hope i won't freak out during the test. cause if i'm cool then i can ace this test without a problem.

DAN, i believe in you, you'll do great. and if not then it's just a fucking number. don't be too harsh on yourself.

god this was probably so unbelievably boring. SORRY.

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my relationship with my best friend nir is changing. well he IS my best friend i guess, but it doesn't really feel that way, we're not that close........

anyway it's changing i think and that's good. i'll write about it another time.

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quote of the day : " don't eat more than you can lift" - miss piggy. heh.


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