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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
Thank you!! I was feeling pretty good about it earlier because I thought there was a glitch in the system that was making it tell me I failed even when I passed, because according to the book, I could miss 5 questions there and still pass. I googled it, and discovered they had changed it. Now, there's not much hope of me passing at the rate I'm going. I'm still studying a lot, but not passing often. I've only passed once in like...the last 15 tries. I still have 7 hours of my online practice exams, so I still have some time. The test is on Wednesday morning, I took Tuesday off of work to study and get to bed on time, and E is staying with my in-laws for a few days (they are dogsitting for an aunt having surgery, and she wanted to help with the dog) and DH has to work, and A pretty much only comes out of his room for food. So I can practice relatively undisturbed for the next two days. The biggest problems are the obscure questions that I shouldn't even have to know. Like...with a standard drivers license, you can only pull a small trailer that is less than 750 kilos, and the total mass of the car plus the trailer can't exceed 3500kgs. That's simple enough. But even though I'm not getting a trailer license, I have to know each kind of trailer license and how much it can weigh and how long it can be. If I were going for one of those licenses, it would be logical to know the limitations on it, but as long as I know the limitations for the kind of license I'm actually getting, I feel like that should be enough. And then they throw in trick questions that aren't in the book. Like, it says you have to give way to anyone who is blind or has difficulty moving, even if they aren't at a crosswalk. So then I figured someone in a wheelchair counts as someone who has difficulty moving, but I got that question wrong, because what the book doesn't tell you is that wheelchairs don't count as pedestrians. Just stupid little things like that. I do fine as long as they don't throw in questions about exceptions that weren't spelled out in the book.
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I cannot believe how hard that test is. My guess is they really don't want many people driving. The written tests are so easy here.
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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MinnieM123 said:
We're in the middle of a hideous heat wave, that's supposed to last through tomorrow afternoon. Temps above 95 and high humidity. Barricading myself indoors for the most part.

@FutureCEO -- keep that A/C cranked up high!! ;)
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Urgh. I know. I have two window AC's but right now I only have one on and it cools the whole house kinda. The other side is warmer but not hot. I love that side.
 
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Songbird76

Songbird76

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Ok, I have a near 100% pass rate right now...I've passed the last 7 or 8 in a row, a couple with only 1 mistake. I'm taking a break because my head hurts. I think I have earned the break. If I can keep this up, I should be ok tomorrow. I know I will be nervous, which might cause me to click too fast, so I will have to watch that. But I also paid for the extra time test....I don't think it gives me more time on the danger recognition section, but it gives me more time to read through the answers thoroughly on the rules and insight sections. I just need to make sure I don't get overly confident and make stupid mistakes.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
I cannot believe how hard that test is. My guess is they really don't want many people driving. The written tests are so easy here.
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Well, yes, they do try to encourage public transportation or bike riding as much as possible here. Gas prices are around $7 per gallon right now....they were closer to $9 or 10 when I first moved here. By making the test really hard, you have to really study to pass, so they know you know the rules before you get out there. But yeah, that's exactly what it is...keep the driving to a minimum. There's actually a whole section in the book about ways to reduce pollution when driving, etc.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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I can’t remember if I’ve said this already, but my youngest nephew (going into second grade) is playing soccer for the same club as my son this year. He’s playing up a birth year, and made the top team.

He’s also trying out for a travel baseball team this week.. now T is begging me, not happy that I won’t let him.

Here’s the thing, this nephew is in like 1% of athletes. I’m not joking, this kid is sick.. physically and mentally, he can just pick up any sport and excel at it.
T is athletic, but not on that level, the vast majority of kids aren’t on that level.

Plan for my nephew is to only play fall and winter soccer, skip spring soccer so he can do travel baseball instead, and then just go to tryouts again when spring is over. There are not many kids who can do this, I don’t know of any in T’s age bracket or close to it. However, that kid will almost assuredly get a spot even with skipping spring.

Obviously T knows that his cousin is next level athletic, but now he’s mad at me for not letting him try out for travel baseball (he is trying out for the stacked team at school though, which no doubt he will make). How do I explain to him that he can’t do both travel sports when his cousin does, that he can’t skip spring soccer if he wants to continue to play? Just tell him that his cousin is a freak of nature?lol.

*I think I shared it here, but T was really conflicted this year over choosing travel baseball or travel soccer... but finally decided to stick with soccer, main reason being that he can get a higher level of baseball competition and teammates on the stacked team at school, while not equivalent to the training in travel, it’s still decent. There isn’t a stacked soccer team.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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21stamps said:
I can’t remember if I’ve said this already, but my youngest nephew (going into second grade) is playing soccer for the same club as my son this year. He’s playing up a birth year, and made the top team.

He’s also trying out for a travel baseball team this week.. now T is begging me, not happy that I won’t let him.

Here’s the thing, this nephew is in like 1% of athletes. I’m not joking, this kid is sick.. physically and mentally, he can just pick up any sport and excel at it.
T is athletic, but not on that level, the vast majority of kids aren’t on that level.

Plan for my nephew is to only play fall and winter soccer, skip spring soccer so he can do travel baseball instead, and then just go to tryouts again when spring is over. There are not many kids who can do this, I don’t know of any in T’s age bracket or close to it. However, that kid will almost assuredly get a spot even with skipping spring.

Obviously T knows that his cousin is next level athletic, but now he’s mad at me for not letting him try out for travel baseball (he is trying out for the stacked team at school though, which no doubt he will make). How do I explain to him that he can’t do both travel sports when his cousin does, that he can’t skip spring soccer if he wants to continue to play? Just tell him that his cousin is a freak of nature?lol.

*I think I shared it here, but T was really conflicted this year over choosing travel baseball or travel soccer... but finally decided to stick with soccer, main reason being that he can get a higher level of baseball competition and teammates on the stacked team at school, while not equivalent to the training in travel, it’s still decent. There isn’t a stacked soccer team.
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Well you could say that since he is older he is better off focusing more on the one sport that he really has worked at for years because he will have a better chance of making a high school team and then a college team. I know that for you being a single parent makes it super hard for you to let him do all these traveling teams. You don't want to use that as an excuse though because then he will feel sorry for himself.
 

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