Yesterday I wrote my first of three teacher qualifying tests: the Liberal Arts and Science Test. They tried to be as anal as they could about things. They didn't just make you have one piece of ID but two. They made you sign not in one place but three places. They had assigned rooms for you and assigned seats and assigned bathroom passes and they even took your god-damn thumb print. The worst thing was how they repeated over the speakers about 50 million times how if you brought your cell phone you may be disqualified.
The test itself was relatively easy. About 90% of the answers were provided in the questions themselves, you just had to find it. I thought that was a great idea because some people just don't have the same amount of background experience so it leveled the field. I finished an hour early and asked my room adjudicator if I handed in my paper if I was forced to immediately leave the building (and into the cold to wait for my friends). She said yes so I said I wasn't done yet. I spent the next 45 minutes doing various time killing things:
- Wrote a poem: Roses are red -- Violets are blue -- I did well on this test -- I hope you did too
- Went to the toilet
- Counted how many words my essay was: 534
- Drew a graphical representation of the goals in my life
- Wrote Joe was here
I think the adjudicator saw that I was just doodling and got agitated so after 45 minutes I left and found out that my friends had finished early too and that we didn't have to wait outside. I still enjoyed doing all the things I did nevertheless.
