#reading class

In order for me to get into HA when I hadn't been in it in 6th grade I had to take a test which makes sense. But a few things went wrong when I took it. The program wasn't uploaded to the testing computers so they had to rush to put it on there. I don't know how they upload it but I swear something had to have gone wrong. The math part of the test was math as you would expect but the reading part had nothing to do with reading at all. It didn't go over paragraph comprehension, reading level, grammar, anything related to reading at all. Instead the test was folding paper.

An example- On the Computer (we didn't have physical paper) it would show a standard piece of paper. Then it would show the paper being folded in different ways to create lines in it. You would have to imagine where the lines were on the paper. That was the reading portion of the exam.

So while I didn't go into 7th grade expecting to be folding paper I took it to mean that I already knew all of the concepts and had all the skills that I would need for 7th grade. I did not.

I had to teach them to myself. And all the rest of the students already knew the concepts that were needed since they had learned them in HA 6th grade. The rest of the students had been in HA for many years prior again 7th grade was my first time.

So we were learning new concepts in 7th grade that required knowledge that I didn't have. Because in normal classes they don't teach them. So I had to teach myself both the old concepts and the new ones that we were actually learning in class. This probably sounds really confusing so here are some examples.

7th grade Ha reading teacher- Today we will be learning the abc concept (new material). Now all of you should know the xyz concept (old material which I never learned) you will need the xyz concept to learn the abc concept.

Rest of the class in 7th grade- Okay (They knew the xyz concept from HA 6th grade so they were prepared for the abc concept)

Me in 7th grade-Okay? (I did not learn the xyz concept since I was not In HA in 6th grade meaning I had to learn xyz and learn the abc concept as well)

Because I had to teach myself xyz I fell behind in learning abc and since we needed abc for the next unit I fell behind in that one as well and that same cycle just continued throughout the whole school year.

Also the reason I believe that the paper text was wrong was because I asked my older sister who has taken the test many times what it was like for her. She had normal math, normal reading, and she also had the paper test but, the paper test was not considered a reading test simply a basic IQ test. So I think in the rush to get the program onto our computers it got messed up and the actual reading questions did not upload and the paper test got labeled as the reading test.