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Booking For SAT I Test
Posted By Lester Chan at 21:19 in Blog
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Went to RELC Building and wanted to book my SAT I Test. Note, I used the term “wanted” because I did not book from there. My first impression of the building that is is like a hotel and true enough, there is also a RELC Hotel. The examinations bureau is at 3rd level.

Fill up 4 pages of form and find I find it very troublesome. The form is not even meant to be use for Singapore. There is not enough space to fill in my full name and address. For our IC number, we need to put 00 followed by your IC number without the last alphabet. There are 2 test date. One is on 8th May 2004 and 6th June 2003.

After finishing filling the form, we need to use a phone and dial an extension to tell the stuff that we have finished filling the form. Even when we want to book for the SAT, we also need to dial that extension to ask for the form. The person told us that we only know whether we got a place 2 weeks before the exams and recommend us to apply online because you can know it immediately. Their system is really fucked up.

So end up wasting my time filling up the form and go back and apply online, and I think is cheaper because of US exchange rate dropping these days, whereas if you apply from there, they fixed it at 1.8.

Head towards Plaza Singapure and had Ramen in Ajisen for lunch. The set dinner from 3pm to 6pm is only $10.80.

Came back applied for my SAT online at College Board. The process is quite fast. It is the bloody questionnaire that take up most of the time.

So my friends especially Geargina and Suqin who read this, do not go down to RELC building, it is just wasting your time. Just apply online and you can get a place on the spot. The only advantage in going down is that you know what to fill in for the form fields, but you can always ask me if you have doubts.

I had book the SAT I test on 8th May 2004 (Saturday) at AEC Training Center (near Raffles Place). I have already ask James Ang, we do not need to go back to school on 8th May 2004. Hope you two can get at the same place too.


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trav
Comment #1
  • 22:41
  • Monday, 23rd February 2004

i booked mine thru collegeboard too, and the great thing is that you can book ur SAT IIs thru there as well w/o having to fill up the forms again, coz it saves ur details. the SAT IIs are good for boosting morale too! i chose to take all my tests at RJ (long story)

go for 1600, lester! :) i tell everyone this, because everyone shortchanges themselves by believing that they can’t. and if you don’t believe you can, you won’t. and i’ve seen dozens of people who’ve managed it. and you can take the test again if u feel ur results are not up to scratch.

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GaMerZ
Comment #2
  • 23:03
  • Monday, 23rd February 2004

thanks trav, haha I hope I can pas my english section =D

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trav
Comment #3
  • 23:23
  • Monday, 23rd February 2004

have more faith in urself! of course u can pass! ^^
read the stuff to urself and trust ur instincts about what sounds right. languages are spoken with all their quirks to make them grate less on the ears.

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GaMerZ
Comment #4
  • 23:39
  • Monday, 23rd February 2004

thanks dude =D Hopw will not disappoint you!

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Dr3aMer
Comment #5
  • 00:52
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

wah seh.. booked SAT liao ah..
going for local Uni?

me dunno wanna take SAT or not.. kinda confused.

To take or not to take?
haha. Pathetic Libra.. lolx

U sure can make it one man, think Logical. Makes the sense.

Lolx! :D

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Syed
Comment #6
  • 09:55
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

maybe i shld book it as well…. :still pondering:

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GaMerZ
Comment #7
  • 11:21
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

Dr3aMer: Take, give it a try, no harm =D Haha. Thanks, but the English is very tough. LOL

Syed: Yap go book!

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urbanfire
Comment #8
  • 13:37
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

hm..k..online..using visa to pay?

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GaMerZ
Comment #9
  • 17:10
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

Yap online, paid by visa.

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trav
Comment #10
  • 19:21
  • Tuesday, 24th February 2004

Dr3aMer: actually, i’m a libra too… -chuckles-
are mcqs supposed to stress the naturally indecisive?

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MeyTriKs
Comment #11
  • 02:39
  • Wednesday, 25th February 2004

o.O.. if i were to take SAT.. im afraid im jsut gonnna make a fool of myself..lol

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GaMerZ
Comment #12
  • 11:11
  • Wednesday, 25th February 2004

trav: No idea, more like testing your luck. LOL

Matrix: You never know till you try out.

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trav
Comment #13
  • 22:28
  • Wednesday, 25th February 2004

matrix… didn’t your movie namesake try to say that people could if they believed? -chuckles- use the force, luke. movies usually try to make us feel a bit better about ourselves, but they do have a point. as lester says, you really never knoe till u try, ya?

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Dr3aMer
Comment #14
  • 23:35
  • Wednesday, 25th February 2004

wah tRav also libra??
Libra ruLEz~~!! lolx Justice scale ma…

But still dunno wanna take or not.. anywayz when’s da dateline for registration if wanna take on May too?

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GaMerZ
Comment #15
  • 00:20
  • Thursday, 26th February 2004

trav: Yea

Jean: i think march 25th is the deadline for may booking.

Hey I am Aries. LOL

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AP
Comment #16
  • 00:58
  • Thursday, 26th February 2004

Erm… I read that we can’t send only our best SAT results. So, do it mean that if we take for the ‘chance’, the universities will sort of like ‘This student takes so many times, what the hell he thinking’? I’m interested to know, because I feel like taking many times, until eventually, I manage to pass.

Anyway, for the people who’s going to choose online registration. Don’t act funny like me, dont read instructions or read and then dont follow the instructions. I read the FAQ and saw the first name and last name thingy and thought if i followed them, my name on the SAT scoresheet will be ‘hangwei low’ and I really want it to be ‘low hangwei’

So, I just fill in first name low and last name ‘hangwei’. I was thinking, hey, if i not happy, can change back the name right? I got a shocked man. Any form field can be updated except the name sia. I’m so dead.

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GaMerZ
Comment #17
  • 01:49
  • Thursday, 26th February 2004

Yap, they will always take the best results regardless of how many times you took.

Regarding the name, I think is ok, not really a big prob. The form is not even meant for singapore. The fields are so short and most of them are not applicable to singapore.

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trav
Comment #18
  • 22:40
  • Friday, 27th February 2004

ap: u don’t have to take the chance. if you’re not confident, don’t put any addresses on the automatic mail results slip. when u get ur results and u r satisfied, you can instruct ets to send your scores.

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GaMerZ
Comment #19
  • 22:57
  • Friday, 27th February 2004

hey, they didnt tell me that I can send score after I got my results for my SAT.

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