By Halil Vaughn
Photo courtesy of Londyn Boles
Over this school year, most everyone at Willow has had their preparation for LEAP testing and feels ready for testing. At least you would think they do, but some freshmen are having issues entering the waters of high school LEAP.
The majority of students I spoke with claim they aren’t prepared for LEAP. During this school year, everyone’s been learning about different subjects to prepare for exams and their state testing.
“I’m not physically prepared for LEAP,” said Jadyn Frost. “I just feel mentally
prepared because I’ve developed over this school year from all of my different core classes.”
Contrast that with London Dean.
“Yes, I am prepared for LEAP,” Dean said. “I prepared by studying and preparing a schedule of what subjects to study per day.”
Tannon Numa felt otherwise, saying, “I honestly think I’ll fail. I’m not ready for LEAP testing, and it should be banned from every state.”
Personally, as a freshman, I think I’m prepared for LEAP, knowing that I only have testing for two subjects. We’ve also had a good amount of LEAP practices on multiple subjects over the past two weeks. This was good preparation to make me feel ready to take the LEAP, if you ask me.
But not every freshman is as confident. Some students worry about what position to finish in while they’re in testing rooms. This can be a source of anxiety.
“I’ll probably be the last to finish in my class because I usually take my time whenever I’m testing, so the LEAP will most likely turn out the same way,” Laila Nugdalla said.
Falon McGowan agreed, saying, “I finish the last. I like to take my time to make sure I’m confident in my answer.”
Stefan Kostić thinks that this year’s tests will be harder for him. “This year’s LEAPs will be harder than last year’s because geometry is very complicated with arcs and other geometric-related equations, and also world geography because of the multiple new topics we have been rushing through these past four quarters.”
Jamaar Spurlock agreed, saying, “I think this year’s LEAP will be harder because we didn’t have any preparation.”
I have a feeling that this year’s LEAP will be harder, also, but I still feel prepared. We’re officially in high school now, and I know that they limited our testing subjects a lot, but the tests we have are all on more advanced subjects than what I took last year.
I also noticed that we don’t have to go to school everyday during testing, which is different from middle school. “I like that, because testing everyday is repetitive,” freshman Faith Flowers said, “and I don’t like that.”
