Reflection About My Senior Year

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It is that time of year once more, exams, graduation, packing up the room, but in a moment such as this I can take time to reflect upon what I’ve accomplished throughout my senior year. In just a short 180 days, so much has happened. Sports seasons came and went, dances, school functions, but one thing remained a constant, AP work. I remember at the end of last year that I didn’t want to take AP literature and composition, I wanted to just be able to coast through my senior year, get by with minimal effort and besides, I would never be any good at the material anyway. That is when my parents stepped in and forced me to take it, as well as AP United States Government and Politics, and it may have been the greatest interception of all time. I knew the course was going to be difficult, it is Mr. Primmer for crying out loud. But, it was difficult with a purpose, a drive to succeed was behind every single assignment and a stride for improvement behind every single grade. I learned a lot about myself this year in this class. I learned that maybe I should have a little more faith in myself, I can accomplish things when I really try. I learned that I do not like analyzing poetry but I do like reading Shakespeare.

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I would always get the same score (35-38) no matter the difficulty. I didn’t like them because they were stressful but I know that I needed to practice them because my exam grade depended on it. The Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) test, is a test I have now taken twelve times. Each time my score improved a little bit but from year to year remained the same. Reading actually helps raise your SRI score so if I wanted to raise it I would read more throughout the year. The ELA computer assessment is found only in Primmer’s class. I took it in ninth, tenth, and now twelfth grade. Each year it seemed to get a little easier. My highest score ever was a 94, which I felt is pretty

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