Not Smarter Than An Seventh Grader

Today I went to one of my city's local OneStop offices to take a practice test of applied mathematics and guess what I failed the practice test with a score of 60. But this was not my first time taking this practice. I took this test over a week ago and failed it then also with a score of 40. Can you image how bad I felt, because this test is telling me that I have no more than a seventh grade or eighth grade level of math skills, but that is impossible. I graduated from high school and no I was not push through, and I even went on to college to study English and Sociology. I mean I even passed my high school exit exam the first time around, so can my math skills be at such a low level. To be honest I never liked math in school and I did struggle just a little in tenth grade, but I passed that class and all my other math classes to meet the requirements I needed to graduate from high school. And yes I know I have been out of high school for fourteen years, but my math skills should not be that rusty. I just feel so bad about not passing this test, but I will be taking it again next week and hopefully this time I will pass it. See this is just 1/3 of a bigger test I have to take which is the WorkKeys test, that all clients of OneStop must take to show future employers and our caseworker our abilities and basic knowledge. Math is the only part of the practice test I keep failing, the other parts of the test, such as reading for information and locating information, I passed with excellent scores. In these two areas I was above average. So you can see how frustrated I am about this test. I just hope that next week I can pass this part of the practice test, so I can move on and take the real one.