CAPT: Good or bad. How's it affecting you?

2/16/2011

Kayla Laguna

3/9/2011 04:01:39 am

Activities were great, actual testing, not so much. Glad I passed the first time!

Viki

3/11/2011 12:21:31 am

I have no complaints for coming in a 10:30 and getting some extra sleep. Hopefully all the sophomores can pass and ge3et the same privilege next year :)

Maia

3/11/2011 12:21:49 am

CAPT is a waste of time, but the activities afterwards are an even bigger waste. Why do we not have half days?

Jeremiah bromell

3/11/2011 12:22:11 am

This is easy. Getting advanced on all of these. Why must I endure this Labarynth of pain. Activities are cool but my group doesn't have video games so I call FAIL!!!

Elantra James

3/11/2011 12:22:13 am

It's pretty good. I think when time comes to go back to regular classes though it's going to be pretty weird to go back to that time schedule.

Kayla

3/11/2011 12:22:29 am

The activities make it so much more bearable, and the lack of actual classes helps also. It feels almost like a vacation. The testing is comcicomca (so so) but I NEVER seem to have enough room. I also firmly believe that they don't give us enough time to do the RFIs. If you were to actually read the article beginning to end, you'd NEVER finish.

Zanira

3/11/2011 12:22:46 am

So far capt has been easy just by luck. The teachers could have prepared us for things they didn't. Like the editing and revising section. I mean come on, a whole section that all the students knew nothing about until it was time to take the test. Not fair, we should have practiced.

Leon Lee

3/11/2011 12:25:04 am

Activities are going well, there different and entertaining. Even though CAPT is easy, it's not so good.

Aidiris

3/11/2011 12:26:50 am

It's a process in the morning because the CAPT isn't taken right away. I'm glad to be getting it all done and behind me though. (:

Julia

3/11/2011 12:35:34 am

The first week of CAPT has gone by extremely quickly. The morning is easy and relaxing, the tests aren’t too bad, and the activities are great because you don’t have to go back to class. Were extremely lucky most schools in the state have classes after the testing is done.

Deni

3/14/2011 03:18:25 am

I'm glad freshmen are taking a pre-capt so that we won't worry so much next year when the time comes to take the official test. The schedules make the days go by super long but I guess that's the only complaint I have about this entire process (well...that and having to go to some classes every day of the week.) I do think we need more time for the RFI though

tiranee

3/14/2011 03:19:17 am

I believe that the capt is a great opportunity for freshmans. We get a heads-up on what to expect for next year, and also how much we need to know by next year. The fact that we are one of the few schools that has this advantage I think we should appreciate it. It prepares us for the future!

Franchesca Ceballos(: <33

3/14/2011 03:20:01 am

This first week of CAPT really stressed me out and the fact that I'm a freshman and it's really for sophomores makes it worse because its just practice, like yes I really want to sit here and test all day -___-

Mallory

3/14/2011 03:21:52 am

It being my first time taking the CAPTs, even if they're practice, I think it's going fairly well.

The tests are easy, and I can't wait until next year when it's our turn to get all the cool activities and a lack of actual classes, haha.

Cindy

3/14/2011 03:22:55 am

Honestly, I think CAPT is good because it's prepares you for future testing && you know what can come up, ESPECIALLY the practice CAPT for freshman. It really lets me && others know what to expect. The part that I HATE is that we don't get to have the fun activites that the sophmores have and that we HAVE to take academics after finishing CAPT. Oh well, but anyways, the tests are actaully easy-to medium. It's nothing too impossible to complete or worth skipping && leaving it blank :)

tyniece

3/14/2011 03:23:03 am

the capts so far have been good and it wil be helful for next year and im happy that we get to take a practice capt before we take the real one.

Erica

3/14/2011 03:23:34 am

the first week of CAPT was exteremely long but and was fun. i hope this week is fun too.

Jess

3/14/2011 03:24:01 am

CAPT is decent so far. Its relatively simple just being a freshman but I'm sure next year it'll be more hectic. The preCAPTs might just be useful, but I wont know until next year.

Jonah

3/14/2011 03:26:20 am

Capt is okay.
I just think that they should not make us sit there for forty-five minutes at the the beginging, and then again after the test.

Ashley Moran<3(:

3/14/2011 03:26:22 am

Stressful, annoying, stressful, waste of time, annoying, and annoying. I think these test took years off of my life. I mean, okay it's cool the sophomores get thei little activites and fun time. But freshmans can't? It's our first year in high schoo and we are already getting the work piled on us. Yes, its practice. Yes, it helps us next year, but we get stressed out too. I just think it's completely unfair. >_< I don't know, at least it gets better next year... but it should have been easy this year.

Jason

3/14/2011 03:28:32 am

The day feels like forever after capt testing, which makes it diffcult to concentrate in classes. And also i think we shouldn't be held accounted if homework or projects are late, for example: i have three projects that still haven't gotten done because i haven't gotten to see my teachers. But on the bright side this capt thing-y-ma-bobber tests are good practice for next year.

Radiant link

3/14/2011 03:33:13 am

The first capt test was the math and it was EASY. But, then i did the part 2 and i was WHAAA? . It have got real diffcult to do . I think capt for me is BAD , because of the time range. I didnt have enough time to finsish my tests . So, im not so happy for that.

Nikime

3/14/2011 03:33:58 am

My CAPT experience has been ok so far. The RFI's were the hardest so far since I wasnt able to finish them all because of the amount of time they gave us. otherwise, everything is good.

Sarah

3/14/2011 08:58:15 am

I like having breakfast. I liked when we went to our art classes and then our activities. They should choose a better movie other than Exit Through the Gift Shop (any movie but that). The Yale Art Gallery was really good. I don't like being with the same group all day though, not when it's based alphabetically. Team building activities are stressful, especially on the voice. But it's better than sitting in class falling asleep.

Katz

3/15/2011 12:28:38 am

Shout out to 10th Grade CAPT Room 329...you guys are doing really well. I think our pre-CAPT pep-rallies really help! We're in the home stretch...I agree it will be strange to go back to our regular schedule.

Gina

3/15/2011 04:34:08 am

CAPT is pretty easy so far. The activities are great. All the toilets are pretty funny, and I'm excited for the amazing race! Love146 was my favorite activity and I'm hoping to get an internship! :)

Ian

3/16/2011 04:29:53 am

CAPT is CAPT. Spending half of the day basically goofing around is fun. The tests are moderately easy. Either way, it'll be nice to have them out of the way.

madz

3/16/2011 05:28:32 am

So to all the freshman on here, I have one thing to say. You guys are freshman, you're paying your dues. You may not think it's fair but did you guys ever think about your upperclassman who have done it too? Everyone does it, it's not something to complain about it's just something you do. And capt prep really does help that way you don't end up having to rake capt academy or retake parts of the capt!

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