job opportunity for august in Wuhan

[Elizabeth Acierno]

Hey, So my boss just offered me an all expense paid trip to China (the lengths people will go to to get rid of me) plus $2,000 in exchange for doing some tutoring work over there. I'm not able to go, but thought I would pass it on cause it is a pretty sweet deal if you're up for an adventure. Basically you get roundtrip airfare and housing (at my boss's sisters house) plus $2000. Your job would be to do SAT prep with her son for the month of August (hours negotiable.) Currently his score is around 2000 and he needs to push it to around 2200. The Chinese are super diligent students. The ideal person is someone who is adaptable, has SAT scores above 700 in each section.   Holla in the next day or two if you're interested or have questions. Lisa

[James Kirchhoff]

For those of us old people, I just want to remind the world that the
real SAT, before they watered it down and inflated the scores, used to
only go up to 1600 max and there were no extra credit questions.

Think about it - 1600 was actually the maximum score. You needed a
perfect to score it. What's that all about? Where were the sliding
scales so everyone's parents could feel proud? God bless the new
America. =)

Oh yeah, and real men only took the test once.

Let's go do some man shots and make fun of midgets....

[lincoln]

SATs are stupid, tell the kid to a liberal arts school in canada, play
frisbee and smoke plants

On Jul 23, 11:34 am, James Kirchhoff <jameskirchh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For those of us old people, I just want to remind the world that the
> real SAT, before they watered it down and inflated the scores, used to
> only go up to 1600 max and there were no extra credit questions.
>
> Think about it - 1600 was actually the maximum score.  You needed a
> perfect to score it.  What's that all about?  Where were the sliding
> scales so everyone's parents could feel proud?  God bless the new
> America.  =)
>
> Oh yeah, and real men only took the test once.
>
> Let's go do some man shots and make fun of midgets....
>

[Matthew Knowles]

when i was in high school you did not need a perfect score to get a 1600, it was based off of something like the 99% percentile so you could miss a couple of questions and still get a 1600.  and i didnt get into those canadian plant smoking liberal arts schools, so yay public school

     matthew knowles

thats right i still get the emails

[Hsing-Hui Hsu]

you must have went to high school after the first adjustment curve.  there used to be a time, long, long ago, in a time when corporeal punishment was legal and bussing was still segregated for students under 5', when you really did have to get every single question to get a perfect 1600.  so now we know how old jim really is.

2009/7/23 Matthew Knowles <knowle...@gmail.com>

[Jeff Orcutt]

Hey hey hey!

 

1) Jim is not that old.

2) The grad the SATs on a curve now! What a crock of ... stuff.

3) Real men took the ACTs (do those still exist?) and went to school in the mid-west. The tender, juicy, middle of the country.

Word

[Betsy]

1. jim is exactly that old.
2. will someone please block matthew knowles from the e-mail list.
he's hacked back in again.
3. all these grammar and spelling errors in an e-mail chain about SATs
is making betsy throw up a little. the grad the SATs? betsy's
nauseous. mini hulk should be monitoring this, as it's worse for
young minds than swearing.

betsy
xxxooo

On Jul 23, 2:33 pm, Jeff Orcutt <orcutt.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey hey hey!
>
> 1) Jim is not that old.
> 2) The grad the SATs on a curve now! What a crock of ... stuff.
> 3) Real men took the ACTs (do those still exist?) and went to school in the
> mid-west. The tender, juicy, middle of the country.
> Word
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hsing-Hui Hsu <hhh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > you must have went to high school after the first adjustment curve.  there
> > used to be a time, long, long ago, in a time when corporeal punishment was
> > legal and bussing was still segregated for students under 5', when you
> > really did have to get every single question to get a perfect 1600.  so now
> > we know how old jim really is.
>

> > 2009/7/23 Matthew Knowles <knowlesena...@gmail.com>

>
> > when i was in high school you did not need a perfect score to get a 1600,
> >> it was based off of something like the 99% percentile so you could miss a
> >> couple of questions and still get a 1600.  and i didnt get into those
> >> canadian plant smoking liberal arts schools, so yay public school
>
> >>      matthew knowles
>
> >> thats right i still get the emails
>

> >>> > > Lisa- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Jennifer Eden]

what a ridiculous system to put so much pressure on someone to get into a school that noone will care about in a few years time
smoke pot and enjoy life - I agree - much better way to go!

2009/7/23 Betsy <betsyb...@gmail.com>

--
Jennifer Eden
13718377271

[Russell Young]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hsing-Hui Hsu <hhh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> you must have went to high school after the first adjustment curve. there
> used to be a time, long, long ago, in a time when corporeal punishment was
> legal and bussing was still segregated for students under 5', when you
> really did have to get every single question to get a perfect 1600. so now
> we know how old jim really is.
>

When I took it (in 1975) it was marked with the 99% technique - you
could miss questions and still get 1600. I guess that means Jim is not
only faster than I am, but also older.

russell

[Kevin]

Normally an e-mail like this would have been glossed over, solicited
one token reply, or received a heckle for being unrelated to
ultimate. What's so exciting about this one? I had to go back 5
weeks to find a thread with more replies (Singapore!).

all y'all need to get jobs.


~Kev

[Tao]

It's encouraging to see most people understand the SATs as just
another way for rich Catholic northeasterners to preserve dominion
over their precious society and said society's conservative
organizations. It's a throwback to Puritanism, plain and simple, and
now they have an even MORE subjective section, writing, which I'm
going to guess isn't graded by a Latino single mother in Chicago.

All I'm saying is, remember when Zack Morris got 1590 or whatever and
Jesse Spano only scored 1200-something? They could have played that
episode in China, the land of gaokao, and that show would've earned a
half billion new fans.

Tao

[Bonedaddy]

This is a good point Kevin. I think it is because the SAT has touched
all of us in some special way.

Earlier today, I was writing a response to this message, but decided
to delete it at the last minute. Now I think I will share it.

This had to do with a friend that took the PSAT and thought she got a
1600. For those that don't know the PSAT is a practice SAT and, at
that time, the PSAT has three parts. When determining your projected
SAT score, you add the verbal and math section to get your score. My
friend unknowingly added all three together to get her 1600 (out of a
possible 2400) and decided to tell everyone in our school how smart
she was.

A few nerds with bruised egos asked how she came up with that score.
After telling the nerds that she added each section's scores together,
they pointed out her error. After readjusting her score, she had only
scored a 920.

Bahahah.

On Jul 23, 4:34 pm, Kevin <kevin.j.re...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Christian liu]

Can someone please remove me from the beijing-ultimate list. Its getting really annoying right now, got like 10 e-mails from u guys talking about SAT-scores..... srry but isnt this list for ultimate news only? I really do appreciate/respect and think its cool that people post up jobs-offers for others. but having a written conversation about SAT-scores!? and this is not the first time.
cheers,
christian

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:24:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: job opportunity for august in Wuhan
> From: chrisb...@mac.com
> To: beijing-...@googlegroups.com

> More than mail–Windows Live™ goes way beyond your inbox. More than messages

[Bonedaddy]

This thread is bringing up painful memories for some...

Christian, you can do one of two things. Remove yourself from the
groups or do what many of us do and change the settings for the email
updates. You can select an option to send only a daily digest of all
messages or turn them off completely and manually check Google Groups
whenever you feel the need.

Thanks for your concern, but please keep in mind only about 10% of
Ultimate players in Beijing have real jobs. During the day, we get
lonely and need the banter and heckling to keep us going.

-Bonedaddy

On Jul 23, 11:01 pm, Christian liu <liu_christ...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please remove me from the beijing-ultimate list. Its getting really annoying right now, got like 10 e-mails from u guys talking about SAT-scores..... srry but isnt this list for ultimate news only? I really do appreciate/respect and think its cool that people post up jobs-offers for others. but having a written conversation about SAT-scores!? and this is not the first time.
> cheers,
> christian
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:24:15 -0700
> > Subject: Re: job opportunity for august in Wuhan

> > From: chrisboeh...@mac.com

> _________________________________________________________________
> More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/

[lincoln]

hallelujah boner!!!!
so say we all ?

and even if we jobs during the day, we're probably bored at them and
feel the need to spam the whole ultimate community

in other news i skipped work so does anyone want to play some disc
golf today? weather is nice and cool

[Jason Cox]

The SAT's never touched me. That sort of stuff is illegal in Canada.
JC.