<p>Does your school have a math team or equivalent? They can usually lobby for the AMC 12 test with success (that’s what a few seniors did with our coach at my school 3-4 years ago), so talk to the teacher heading whatever math organization you might have at school.</p>
<p>Yo gram, does your school participate in ICTM? If so, are you involved?</p>
<p>Yes it does, yes I am. Went to state last year!</p>
<p>Sweet I might consider it this year, my school has a bad math department but I did ok freshman year before I went into hiding.</p>
<p>We don’t participate in any math competitions, as our school is pretty lame. Would I be able to get my Calc teacher from last year to start it?</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m a bit late to the game. ^^" Here are my current Junior classes:</p>
<p>Honors Pre-Calc
AP United States History (APUSH)
Marketing
Honors Chemistry
Honors English 5-6
Honors Japanese</p>
<p>@biovball: I got the AMC 10/12 sponsored at my school last year by creating a “Math Competition Club” and finding a sponsor (my math teacher) who would get behind it. Your best bet is to seek out an interested teacher who would look for funds or at least sign you up for it (you could acquire the money with a fundraiser, then). The AMC 12 is administered twice in February with two weeks separating the test dates (look it up for more information). I highly recommend the test; it was a really fun and educational experience last year. I’m going for AIME qualification this year!</p>
<p>For my school people do it through Math Club, before Math Club was established math teachers would select students to take the test. We do prep at our meetings, it also identifies who would be interested in such a test. Last year one person made it to the AIME from my school. This is my first year taking the AMC, I can’t wait!</p>
<p>@gram what about WYSE? if your school doesn’t already I would highly recommend it. Sooooo much fun.</p>
<p>I’m only taking AP Biology and AP World History this year…is it a bit too little for junior year? I was going to take another AP class, but I dropped it after a week. The teacher basically told us on the first day of school that he had been hired last minute, had never taught that class before, and that his knowledge only extended to an online course he took over the summer.
But is my course load rigorous enough? I’m also taking honors World Lit, Hon. Precalc, and Hon. Music. I’m thinking of taking another AP in the spring (like AP Econ, which is only a semester).
Advice? Anyone?</p>
<p>@Jess You’re fine. I’m only taking two AP classes too, AP Biology and AP Chemistry. Two is enough, I’m having a hard time with only those lol. Overall, you’re fine, also if you’re interested in AP Econ, take it.</p>
<p>I’m only in one lol but I might get a B in math. My parents are going to kill me! We have a retake left, a quiz left and exit cards and homeworks but those won’t do anything. It BETTER go up</p>
<p>sooo uh just wondering…how does your school decide grades or GPA? I read some posts that said the cut off for A’s at some school is a 90% O_o .</p>
<p>At my school the grade/g.p.a. cut offs differ depending on the class but are normally about
94/96-100 = A = 4
90/93-94/95 = A- = 3.66
88-89/92 = B+ = 3.33
etc etc</p>
<p>What’s it like for you guys?</p>
<p>96-100 = a+
94-95 = a
90-93 = a-
87-89 = b+</p>
<p>We don’t do the A- or A+ thing, an A is an A.</p>
<p>A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79
D = 60 - 69
F = 0 - 59</p>
<p>Yeah, we have the same system as FantasyVesperia.</p>
<p>My school just does percentages.
65%- is a fail grade, 90%+ is honor roll, 94%+ is high honor roll.
Teachers who don’t like the system make up their own individual grading systems but in the end on the report card it all comes back to this.</p>
<p>89.5-100 A
79.5-89.4 B
etc</p>
<p>98-100 A+
93-97 A
90-92 A-
88-89 B+
83-87 B
and so on…</p>
<p>93 - 105 A (4.0)
85 - 92 B (3.0)
76 - 84 C (2.0)
70 - 75 D (1.0)
0 - 69 F (0.0)</p>
<p>3 points are added for honors classes and 5 points for AP classes.</p>