Personal Narrative: SAT Today
Life can have so many challenges a person will have to endure. Some will be making it to the NBA playoffs and others will be perfecting the cheesecake. For me, it would be the most, terrified thing a young person would ever have, the SAT. Know for its extremely dull black and white pages and its rigorously rough questions, I was about to prove myself against its makers, The College Board.
Opening my eyes, I was greeted by the bright, shiny sun peeking through the curtains. Getting up I noticed my calendar overfilled with Post-it notes, but there was a bright tomato, red color one, it was something important written as, “SAT Today”. My brain shifted into gears, I quickly sprang out of bed and dashed to my trusty backpack, rambling through past-due …show more content…
Sitting down on the intense artic cold blue seat. I shrived immensely, worried that my desk was having an earthquake. After calming down and positioning myself at an angle away from where the icy cold air was coming from, I was ready. The instructor was having trouble opening the little red plastic tab in which you pull up to get access to the booklet, but after a while, we began to open them, some people had more trouble than others and, I was so anxious, my hand couldn’t stop rambling, almost unable to hold my paper. After starting, all I could hear were small, almost silent cries of surprise, others were with the flimsy pages, turning them back and forth and back again, almost sounded like a bird flapping its wings in a windy day, and the rest were pressing on their calculators, if you paid enough attention, you can make some sort of an upbeat melody. After ignoring all distractions, I managed to get some easy algebra questions, I thought to myself, other than its dull boring appearance, it is not that bad. I fastened my bright yellow, Dixon Ticonderoga pencil into my hand and marched on.
After the Math portion of the SAT, I went on to the reading section, where I would read an extremely boring story story on, why shoelaces are the most important invention today. Flipping back and forth through the pages like a fan, I thought to myself, I did quite
Opening my eyes, I was greeted by the bright, shiny sun peeking through the curtains. Getting up I noticed my calendar overfilled with Post-it notes, but there was a bright tomato, red color one, it was something important written as, “SAT Today”. My brain shifted into gears, I quickly sprang out of bed and dashed to my trusty backpack, rambling through past-due …show more content…
Sitting down on the intense artic cold blue seat. I shrived immensely, worried that my desk was having an earthquake. After calming down and positioning myself at an angle away from where the icy cold air was coming from, I was ready. The instructor was having trouble opening the little red plastic tab in which you pull up to get access to the booklet, but after a while, we began to open them, some people had more trouble than others and, I was so anxious, my hand couldn’t stop rambling, almost unable to hold my paper. After starting, all I could hear were small, almost silent cries of surprise, others were with the flimsy pages, turning them back and forth and back again, almost sounded like a bird flapping its wings in a windy day, and the rest were pressing on their calculators, if you paid enough attention, you can make some sort of an upbeat melody. After ignoring all distractions, I managed to get some easy algebra questions, I thought to myself, other than its dull boring appearance, it is not that bad. I fastened my bright yellow, Dixon Ticonderoga pencil into my hand and marched on.
After the Math portion of the SAT, I went on to the reading section, where I would read an extremely boring story story on, why shoelaces are the most important invention today. Flipping back and forth through the pages like a fan, I thought to myself, I did quite