CAHSEE

CAHSEE stands for California High School Exit Exam. It consists of two tests, math, and English. It is given to all 10th graders, and is required to be taken, and passed to graduate high school. For the the Exit Exam, I was stuck in Ms. Wong's/Mr. Joo's/Mr. Hardin's class. First period I had Ms. Wong, and 2nd and 5th I had Mr. Joo. The Exit Exam is just a test on the basic math and English skills needed for life. Everybody basically says it's really easy. Most people don't need the full time period to finish. To study for the Exit Exams, they gave two packets, English and Math. Only people in Geometry got the Math packet I think. The English part of the exam was given on Tuesday, two days ago. It was full of passages with questions at the end of it. I got stuck reading the passages because I was really bored. At the end of the CAHSEE English Exam, there was a questionnaire. It was asking if you studied for the CAHSEE, or if it was too hard to do. After the test, we were allowed to do something quiet, like homework or to read a book. I read my book Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse a book about Percy Jackson's adventures. He is a half-blood, the son of Poseidon, and half human. After everybody was finished, we got to talk the rest of them time, or play card games. It was actually a really fun day. We had only 6th period to go to. When 6th period came, we went to La Pinata to learn about the culture of the Spanish.

On Wednesday, I took the math part of the Exit Exam. Only people in Geometry got the study guide for the CAHSEE. I think it was because there were some Algebra II problems in the test. The test was during Mr. Joo's 3rd period, and Mr. Hardin's 4th period. We only took like an hour for the whole two parts of the test. It was really easy for our class. Afterwards, we basically did the same thing as the first day of testing. We just played UNO and Deuces for most of the time. It sort of got boring in the end. They kept skipping me or either putting down draw twos. But after a while, I finished second. I read my book for the rest of the time, and played with my iTouch. My book, Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse was really interesting. A lot more exciting than my other book for English, Bastard out of Carolina. Every night, for the past week, I have been staying up until 11:30 P.M. - 12:30 A.M. reading my book. There are five books to the series, The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. I'm currently on the fourth book, and I read the other three books in a week. That was an accomplishment for me, reading three books in a week. I have never read so many books in many years. Except, the Percy Jackson series are children books, which was strange to me since they have so many characters the children would be confused.