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By Halil Vaughn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Photo courtesy of Londyn Boles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The majority of students I spoke with claim they aren\u2019t prepared for LEAP. During this school year, everyone\u2019s been learning about different subjects to prepare for exams and their state testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m not physically prepared for LEAP,\u201d said Jadyn Frost. \u201cI just feel mentally<\/p>\n\n\n\n prepared because I\u2019ve developed over this school year from all of my different core classes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Contrast that with London Dean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYes, I am prepared for LEAP,\u201d Dean said. \u201cI prepared by studying and preparing a schedule of what subjects to study per day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tannon Numa felt otherwise, saying, \u201cI honestly think I’ll fail. I’m not ready for LEAP testing, and it should be banned from every state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, as a freshman, I think I\u2019m prepared for LEAP, knowing that I only have testing for two subjects. We\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ll 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,\u201d Laila Nugdalla said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Falon McGowan agreed, saying, \u201cI finish the last. I like to take my time to make sure I\u2019m confident in my answer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefan Kosti\u0107 thinks that this year’s tests will be harder for him. \u201cThis year\u2019s LEAPs will be harder than last year\u2019s 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.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamaar Spurlock agreed, saying, \u201cI think this year\u2019s LEAP will be harder because we didn\u2019t have any preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a feeling that this year\u2019s LEAP will be harder, also, but I still feel prepared. We\u2019re 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also noticed that we don\u2019t have to go to school everyday during testing, which is different from middle school. \u201cI like that, because testing everyday is repetitive,\u201d freshman Faith Flowers said, \u201cand I don\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","two-columns"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PD4-Final-Draft-Apr-30-2025-at-3_38-PM.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willowpostdiluvian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}