I bombed as always. I don't think I've ever not bombed at a meet. Does anyone have any advice for someone that consistently gets 100 points lower in meets than in practice. I mean, I'm a little nervous, yes, but not a whole lot. Just my pulse is a little quicker. I got to 77 and missed 20 --- 205. It's just that I get numbers mixed up in the meets and make a lot of careless errors. I really need to work on focusing at the practice meets next year. I took 20 practice tests on Friday and never got under 300, then I got a 205 at the meet! uhg, makes me mad.
As much as one can bomb a test and still place sixth, I did. I thought something existed that didn't, used a 2/3 chance in the place of a 1/2, and misread a simple algebra expression written in English. All that yields a 170 in computer science after they threw out only one of three problems they admitted were ambiguous, and I walked home with a three-way tie for sixth.
It wouldn't be so bad, except that I'm going to TAMS next year, and I can't do UIL there.
I'm planning to go to TAMS junior year too. Let's see if we can't get them to change the rules regarding UIL. I talked to Larry White about it this state meet, and he told me that as long as TAMS was not a private institution, there would be no problem with them doing UIL.
do you know exactly why TAMS doesn't do UIL?
Let's set the ball rolling and get some changes made.
I asked about UIL on my interview day. They gave me a mini-speech on the advantages of TAMS, and how I'll be considered a college student when it suits me and a high school student when it suits me. Eventually, they said something along the lines of this: When UNT decided to make TAMS, UT decided that the students should have all the privileges associated with being either type of student, but that it would be unfair to gather the 400 best mathematics students and field them as a team.
That may or may not be correct; I haven't really gone after the issue with anyone. If White says it could work, though, I'll have to look into it.
