How do other INTPs comprehend music?
Fully and with a nearly-obsessive love.I'm Booker T Washington HSPVA in Dallas for the Cello right now, technically, although I've also experimented in the Visual and Theatre clusters, and within the Music cluster I focus much more on Composition and Theory than I do performance.When playing music in class, I have to like the way the piece sounds in order to play well (or ever practice). I've taken a few of the pieces we've played over the years and analysed the chords into oblivion, arranged pieces into nonsense, and combined the melodies ridiculously. In an amateurish way, I have taken the delicately constructed emotional beauty of music and tried to make it completely technical.When composing, I've had to grow out of similar things. I consider myself a theory buff, minus dictation and many term names (oops!). A lot of my early compositions are lackluster, as I had few and poorly constructed melodies, and relied instead almost fully on chords to make a piece. I also haven't yet learned how to use different instrument's colours because of a lack of hands. But when I listen to music, I go all out. I have weird tastes, generally shifting with overall moods, and I am the type to play an artist, an album, or even a song exclusively for weeks at a time. As a child especially (I had so much more time then), I would listen to one song over an over again, focusing on a different element's line each time, letting my ears hear more and more at once until I reached the level of being able to play specific songs in my head during standardised testing to keep myself sane. (As for actual taste, I've grown from Styx and Coldplay in my youth to Three Days Grace, Eminem, Warrior Cats amvs, Green Day, and Sum 41, to exclusively Doctor Who and Youtubers' music, to Soundtrack music, to Orchestral and Symphonic pieces, to Panic! at the Disco and Green Day again, to Muse and Coldplay, and then Twenty One Pilots and Stromae, with all sorts of oddballs in between.)And if you'd like to listen to some of my older compositions, check here: kveylet | MuseScore
How we could increase speed of atempting competitive exams?
Let me introduce you to some of the major tactics that you can use:-1) Set time limit for your assignments/practise problems and try to complete them in the set time frame. Initially it will be hard to follow, but then what is practise for, my friend :)2) You can solve paper in three rounds -For the first round, go through all the questions and pick those which can be answered instantaneously like objective and theory based questions, you will definitely find some, they will make up to around 30% of question paper and come in the easy category.After first round you will have solved some questions and they will act as confidence booster for you. In second round, attempt those questions whose solution method you are familiar with and which require little to no thinking. They fill the majority, around 40% of paper.For the third round you are left with hard questions and decent time, believe me, those who have attempted them in the beginning will soon realize that they are officially f****d :)Lets say your exam be of 3 hours, 30–45 min should be given for round I, 1–1.5 hours for round II , and remaining for III.3) Sometime you will come across questions which are lengthy but easy and carry high marks, boy never leave them, they will haunt you in night. You should have practised enough to distinguish between hard and easy questions.It is always good to start this way, rather than taking up hard questions in the beginning and later realizing that you are not even sure if what you did is correct.Also don’t give too much time to a single question.4) Work out some problems before going for exam, it will help to develop test mindset and you won’t have to start fresh in exam.Well these might help you but most of all what one require is practise, and rigorous practise. It is finally the hardwork that pays off.All the best.
Trying To Prevent Uneducated Grandchildren.?
Ok, here it is. I don't know much about how homeschooling works. My stepson has an 8th grade education and his wife is a high school graduate ( I don't know how she slipped through the cracks). Neither of them are very smart and they are attempting to home school their kids because they don't want their kids in "public school" because some members of their church home school. Our grand daughter is 8 years old and unable to do very simple, basic multiplication. Her reading is ok but we feel that her potential will be hampered by her ignorant and stubborn parents. Our grand daughter is very smart and she catches on pretty good but when she asks her mother for help all she gets is scorn and "come on, you know this" when in reality, she doesn't. She has not been properly taught how to solve problems. The curriculum is what ever they can get their hands on that may be used as teaching tools. What can we do? We don't want our grandchildren growing up illiterate and ignorant. Their are four more to teach after her. Her mother has already stated that she is not sure that she will be able to teach what they need to know and that anything beyond division will be a challenge for her to teach. I think our grand daughter should at least know what 3X3 is. But she doesn't. We can not school her because we live too far away for daily contact. Any suggestions, advise, or similarities would be greatly appreciated.
How can I raise my SAT score from 1270 to 1400+ to get into my dream school? I am a good student and get A’s in AP classes, but I am terrible at standardized testing. What should I do?
No one is terrible at standardized testing. You may have to work more than others but you can still make up the difference.Any skill you need in life - tennis, math, chess, standardized testing- , you have to devote hours learning and practicing. There is no escape, even for wizards.Do practice tests, but that is not sufficient. With each wrong answer, you will learn something. More mistakes you make, more you are learning. If you are not learning anything new, then you are not practicing with the right material.SAT is not hard. Half of it is just grammar. Think about it. Those are straight forward rules that you should know anyway. You don’t need test for that. If you paid attention to English class over last 12 years, grammar should come naturally. If you did not, then it is still not too late. Learn now. Practice more and discover what you are missing.For math, standards are up to 8th grade or so. If you are in 12th grade, and have not learned 8th grade math, then you need to go back and review. There is no escape. Plenty of 7th graders get an 800 in SAT math. Some even solve in third of allotted time. There is no excuse to not know material taught in 8th grade.
What do you think about the method of speed reading as a school subject?
Thank you for asking. Speed reading eventually involves a trade-off: the more quickly one reads, the more rapidly one’s comprehension and recall drops off. Most educators, by definition, favor their students’ retention of as much content as possible. Therefore, they are unlikely to sign on for promoting a reading technique that will, after a certain point, become destructive of thorough understanding. There are good reasons for avoiding turning reading into a race: one who reads at a natural, comfortable pace can savor what one is reading as well as recall it well. There are also bad reasons: American schools have grown so reliant on standardized testing for ranking students that administrators want students to remember as fully as possible what they read. Finally, as more scientific research about multi-tasking is appearing, it is clear that doing two or more tasks at the same time does not divide the multi-tasker’s attention effectively. If one is concentrating simultaneously on reading speed and reading comprehension, one is losing efficiency in one skill or the other—and likely both. I think it highly unlikely that a good school would attempt to teach speed reading to its students.Note that a few students in every school will be uncomfortably slow readers because they are reading in an inefficient way perhaps evolved uniquely by them, or perhaps for organic reasons. These children need assistance from a Reading Teacher, who may well be able to help them learn to read more fluently. A good Reading Teacher can often make a large improvement in a struggling student’s capabilities, but, in my experience, no reputable Reading Teacher will attempt to make a student with reading problems into a speed reader. Nor will a good Reading Teacher try to teach speed reading to a student who has the good fortune of unencumbered reading ability.