Ha young Choi Blog #5

Both Korean high school students who study in korea and American high school students who study United states want to go to famous universities. For example, Seoul national university or Ivy league universities in U.S. To apply any universities, American Students have to take SAT(SAT Reasoning Test) and also Korean students have to take Korean SAT test. But there is a big difference between Korean SAT and U.S SAT. In KOrea, students can take SAT only once in a year. In contrast, U.S students can take SAT as many time to get a good grade. There are more than 10 chances in a year to take the test in U.S. I took a Korean SAT 2007 october, I woke up at 7 in the morning to be on time where I am going to take the test. I took 6tests: Korean, Math, English, Social science, Law and society and politics in one day. The test started at 8am and ended at 5pm. I wasn't in a good condition because I was so nervous that if I might get a bad score on the test, then I won't go to university that I want to go and also I have to wait and study till the next year to take the test again. I was so worried and think about the case when I got a bad score. Almost all students have same feeling like pressure to get a good grade and stressed. But students in the U.S have more chance to take tests and opportunity to get a good grade. Therefore, Students who study in U.S and prepare to take U.S SAT have better opportunity and less stress about the test.