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Personal Narrative: SAT Today

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Life can have so many challenges a person will have to endure. Some will be making it to the NBA playoffs and others will be running a marathon. For me, the biggest challenge would be the most terrified obstacle a young person would ever have; the SAT. Known for its extremely dull black and white pages and its notoriously rough questions, I was about to prove myself against its makers, The College Board.
Opening my eyes, I was greeted by the bright, bright sun peeking through the curtains. Getting up I noticed my calendar overfilled with Post-it notes, but there was a bright tomato, red color one. It had to be something important; I so focused my vision closely and saw, “SAT Today”. My brain shifted gears, I quickly sprang out of my comfortable …show more content…

I checked my essay over and over again, checking for grammar, diction, and even making sure it wasn’t too sarcastic. Then I heard a loud penetratingvoice coming from behind me. I twisted my head 90 degrees around and it was a teacher screeching about how time was up and I needed to close my booklet. Without thought, I dropped myworn pencil and closed the test, however when the pencil had hit the wooden, aged desk, it bounced off into the toes of the teacher. It was like a thousand-yard stare, I froze, she stared, and everyone else seemed to stop. I extended my arm as fast as I could, snatched it from in between her musty toes and looked down as nothing had happened. Later, we were finally dismissed from the torment, I was glad, but however anxious about my score.
Two slow weeks later, I checked my email, scrolling through the excessive coupons of Macys, Hugo Boss, and Armani, and I saw in large bold letters, “SAT SCORES.” My internet having speed of 50 Mbps, it was lightning fast but not enough to control the anticipation. With sweaty palms, I typed in my ridiculously long username and password to the College Board website. Glazed my eyes across the page until I found the magic number of a 1150. Jumping and screaming, almost knocking down a can of Sprite onto my MacBook, I seemed like if I was the smartest person

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