Shenzi's Alcove

So, GED Test Scores...

Alright, 'bout time I finally put up a blog post on this.

There's not really too much to throw up(hurrr) onto this. On the last Monday and Tuesday of November, I took a GED test at a high school and ended up passing.

LA Writing- 520 | 58%
Social Studies- 580 | 79%
Science- 550 | 69%
LA Reading- 630 | 90%
Mathematics- 500 | 50%
Total- 2790; avg 556

The test is scored with points, rather than the percentage ranking. A score of 410 points is needed to pass each specific part of the test while having an average of 450.

All in all, not too bad. I haven't actually really done any schooling since eighth grade due to being sick. I'm stuck on a wall about this though. Either it means I'm pretty damn smart, or it means the education system in Nevada sucks. I think it's a mix of both, along with some luck.

The writing part of the Language Arts test had a prompt of "collecting things", and I ended up writing about collecting reptiles. I ended up rambling more than I would have liked, but it wasn't a particularly great subject anyway.

LA reading was pretty easy. Just correct a sentence's grammar and what not. They give you a short story or letter to read, but they copy the sentence to correct above the question, so what's the point?

Social Studies is as much of a crackpot as usual. It consists of reading text and inferring shit from it. No one thinks exactly the same, so there's no real way to do this correctly!

Science... this was another crackpot. It was all over the place with questions.

Math... okay, I hate math. I've never been all that great at it, but that has to do with teachers sucking at teaching it, or being unable to teach it in another way that you can understand. Just... argh! And in the end, who's really going to need to solve (9 x 210) + ((4 x 55) 99 / 5) in their normal life?


But, besides the test not being all that great IMO, I'm pretty happy with how this worked out. A few days after I got the test scores, my parents and I and my half brother and his wife all went out to dinner at Asian Garden. It says it's a Chinese resturaunt (Google Chrome considers that a misspelled word-- wtf?), but they actually serve all sorts of Asian foods, like the Japanese teriyaki sauce on chicken and broccoli, different kinds of fried/steamed rice, sweet and sour pork/chicken, a lot of different hot/spicy Vietnamese and Thai food. There's mainly Chinese dishes there for dinner, but their menu is huge! And I've never had anything I actually don't like. Lemon chicken, curry chicken, and some sort of deep fried eggs I've tried, and I don't care for them, but I don't dislike them.

Anyway, we had a pretty nice dinner. We got stuff via À la carte so we shared. We got chicken and beef with broccoli in a teriyaki sauce, shrimp with vegetables in a sweet sauce, chicken in sweet and sour sauce, chicken curry, some sort of deep fried egg thing, steamed white rice, and something else, I think. We shared a big bowl of some soup (egg flower/flour I think) before the dinner, and it was actually really good this time around. I usually don't care for it, but I had two cups of it. Kim, my brother's wife, is Chinese and actually brought up how a lot of Chinese/Asian resturaunts will thicken soup for Americans since the usual soup is more like water with food in it. Interesting, considering that the ever popular chicken soup and tomato soup are both rather watery.

Mitch (and Kim I guess) also gave me a general use Visa card with 75 bucks on it. Pretty nice little gift. Grandpa (on mom's side) and Carolin, his second wife (but third marriage, lmao), couldn't have dinner with us 'cause it was so late when we went, but they mailed me two cards, one for my birthday (this Saturday) and one for the GED test, both with a 50 dollar bill. Hurrr.

I've got some other things I wanna write about now, but I'll put it in another blog post.

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