SAT exam

The SAT is an exam designed it by College Board. High school students take it when they want to enter in college, is separated into three sections: Critical reading, mathematics, and writing. 

We did an example of this exam, in pairs. Even thought the answers were multiple-choice I find it very complicated because I didn't know the meaning of many words, so it take more time to answer each of the questions and we even had to search the meaning of the word on Internet. 

To answer all the questions we supposed to have 25 minutes but the teacher gave us the double of time and we didn't finish anyway. 

But I think only because of that it's complicated because once you know the meaning of the concepts is easy to answer the questions, we didn't have many mistakes, of 20 questions answered we had 15 right. 

Despite that I don't think I'm ready to take a real SAT exam, I'd need to practice a lot of reading, and expand my vocabulary, And even so, the SAT had mathematics and writing to, and I don't know anything about math 😅so I'd fail anyway. 

"Jenny" Explained

Title: Jenny

Singer: Studio Killers 

She confessed her attraction to her best friend Jenny. Confessed that she was using her shirt as a pillow case, that she stole things of her, noting Jenny would miss.
She tried to explain why she used the lipstick of Jenny so often. why she never liked the new boyfriends of Jenny.  
She preferred to be her lover even if that ruined their friendship.
She hesitated if she should tell Jenny about her feelings, asked her to forget those guys and take her hand. She promised that she would follow Jenny until the end.

Freakonomics video

Here are my sentences in reported speech about the last video we saw at the lab about giving incentives to students and see if they could increase their test scores.

• The boy at the beginnig of the video was very bad at school, he spent his days in the streets and didn't worry about going well.

• In the video explained that the young students who didn't reach higschool tend to have many difficulties in their future.

• The school worried and invited him to a program they had to help their students, to encourage them to continue their studies.

• This kind of bribe was quite similar to a scholarship where they paid an amount of money periodically as long as the students maintained their high grades.

• If they kept their grades high for a period of time they were able to participate in a lottery where they could earn a great amount of money and get on a Hummer limousine with their friends.  

• The boy's mom promised him that whatever the money the school gave him she was going to double it.

Essay "Differences to find a job with a University degree"

This is the essay we did as an exam but with my mistakes corrected 

It is common to think that the more studies you have the better job you can get and that is right but not everyone wants to go to college or they can't afford it.

In both countries there are public or private universities, however, the amount of people who decide to start their studies is small. Statistics say that approximately 64% of high school students in the U.S. go for higher studies. In Mexico, the percentage is lower and a number of people who graduate are even smaller. 

Finding a job can be difficult even if you have a University degree, but there are some differences between Mexico and the U.S. It depends on the subject of your major if you get a well-paid job of course but it seems that in Mexico City, even if you have a major you don't get that dream job that you think you would have. Or you could obtain a job that isn't paid enough and you end with the same salary as a job that only requires high school degree. 

In the U.S. however, there is not that much of a problem finding a good with your degree. Besides, there are often more and more jobs that require a special subject degree but as always people think that salary is good. Just as I said before, the higher studies you have the better job you get. I found out that many people in Mexico City who had Ph.D. travel to the U.S. to get a job because in Mexico the jobs that you can get aren't that well-paid. 

It's a sad thing that in out country you don't get the support that you deserve for your effort. In Mexico, there is just a small number of people who have a Ph.D. and the majority go to the U.S. to find a job. That explains how different these two counties are. 

Reported Speech Questions

Perfect English Grammar Excercises 

This website is one of my favorites, I think that explains the subjects really easy for you to understand and has excercises that can be very usefull to practice. So I did this two excecises about reported speech questions, the first image shows 'Wh questions' and the second one 'Yes/No questions' I recommend to visit the webpage and try other excecises.  

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Wh questions

Yes/No questions