Split into two separate parts, the two part Writing SOL  was finished in mid March. Now that it’s over, Valley juniors are reflecting on their performance and preparedness for the exam. 

Many students felt fairly confident going into the writing SOL. Others had a few worries. 

“Sometimes I forget grammar rules,” junior Thomas Gibbs said.

After the SOL, many juniors felt pretty well about the performance on both tests.

“I feel like I did well on both SOLs. The writing was harder, it took longer and required more effort,” Gibbs said. “The only thing I was worried about forgetting was the format of the essay, which I looked over before and memorized.”

Others thought back on things that they could have done to better prepare for the SOL tests.

“I could have done more Noredinks,” junior Carter Anderson said.

Now that the SOLs have passed, juniors are looking ahead to the next, a Reading SOL in the latter half of April

“I feel like it will be easy. Not as easy as the writing,” Anderson said. “A lot of reading makes it a lot more difficult, and for the writing I just have to be grammatically correct a couple times.”

With two SOLs down and one left, students can look to English teachers for advice on how to best prepare and study for the English ones.