Easy as S A T

For the last three days Ruth has been taking the SAT (Stanford Achievement Test) for first grade. We prepared her that the test would be testing a wide variety of skills and that there would probably be some questions she didn't know. On the first day's debriefing, we asked how the test went. She said it was easy. We asked if there weren't any difficult questions, and Ruth laughed out loud. "No," she replied, through snickers, "it was very easy." She also told me later that she LOVED taking the test. Yesterday, she was disappointed in herself that she had to use scratch paper for some of the math problems, rather than doing them all in her head. But still, she thought it was pretty easy. She even quizzed Weston on some of the questions, and when he answered correctly, she said smugly, "See, I told you it was easy." Today, she didn't have much to say, except that she finished the book she had taken in to read in case she finished any sections of the test before other testers. We won't know her actual scores for a while, but we are glad that she felt good about the test and that she wasn't intimidated by it, since this was her first real test to ever take.