Give me ideas on this SAT site

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

Quoth the raven named private name:

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

Well, for starters the site you ask us to critique is a login page. So
I logged in with "test", "test", and a fake email address.

Then I was directed to this page, which shows as plain text in Firebird:
http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat/main.cgi

...and it says, in part:

<p>Working on the first 7 of the 700 questions available.
You have currently 7 wrong questions.
</p>

Needs more work, I think.

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In article <9b1806fb.0312301503.4e997ab4 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>,
ioconnor (AT) mailblocks (DOT) com says...

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.

They'll need a bit more than good vocabulary for that to happen, such as
excellence in rugby.

It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

Shouldn't you pay more attention to the language used in the questions -
Shouldn't "kelly" have a capital "K"?

It doesn't work in Mozilla. Is the log-in screen really necessary for
this test?

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While sitting in a puddle Beauregard T. Shagnasty scribbled in the mud:

Quoth the raven named private name:

p>Working on the first 7 of the 700 questions available.
You have currently 7 wrong questions.
/p

Needs more work, I think.

Looks like You need more work.

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In article <B%nIb.92833$UY6.42508 (AT) twister (DOT) nyroc.rr.com>, Beauregard T.
Shagnasty says...

Quoth the raven named private name:

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

Sorry to nick your post, Beauregard. Didn't get the original.

Anyway...

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n.)-total lack of inhibition. "With her strict parents out of the way,
Kelly danced all night with ___."
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Wrong

The correct answer is "abandon" not "her knickers in her handbag"
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Doesn't feel like there's any real structure to the site, or any
guidance towards it's use. I'm hoping that's down to the above URL just
being a test, not a finished product.

The questions could be better formatted, with the example sentence below
the meaning of the word you're looking for, and in a different style.

Other than that, I'd just suggest breaking the questions up into
suitable categories.

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Quoth the raven named Daniel Ruscoe:

Sorry to nick your post, Beauregard. Didn't get the original.

No problem. I was out looking for her knickers...

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"private name" <ioconnor (AT) mailblocks (DOT) com> wrote

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

Choose some colours that don't blind the testee.

BTW what is a SAT?

Cheers
Richard.

rf wrote:

"private name" <ioconnor (AT) mailblocks (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:9b1806fb.0312301503.4e997ab4 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com...
I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

Choose some colours that don't blind the testee.

BTW what is a SAT?

Stupid Alternative to Teaching ?

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"private name" <ioconnor (AT) mailblocks (DOT) com> wrote

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

"The correct answer is "abated" not "decreased""

Thanks for making me feel really dumb.

private name wrote:

I'm trying to put together a site to help people learn their SAT
vocabulary inside & out. I want my kids to get perfect scores so
hopefully they can attend good colleges without any money from me.
It's in progress and I'd like some ideas.

http://ioconnor.theunixplace.com/sat

HTML 3.2? Well, it's your life I guess. There's not much of a design but
it functions (although the progress section at the bottom says the same
thing all the time). Thinking about how it works, and building a design
upon that may be the best approach in this case. You don't need a
navigation menu, but you do want some navigation. Something like a small
nav bar that has options to start over, skip a question, pause (or resume) a
session, look up the word at dictionary.com, and log out might work placed
in a sensible position. Working from this, you will get your real content
flowing in a neater fashion. Less harsh colours wouldn't hurt, either.

I'm hungover so this page isn't perfect, but it's a start - feel free to use
it as a basis for your site: <http://dumpage.net/sat/>
And when an answer is wrong, just change a few colours:
<http://dumpage.net/sat/page2.htm>

As an aside; is that really what the SAT questions in America are like -
"think of the fanciest word that means..."? It's just... incredibly boring.

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