<p>We do percentages, so no grades. It’s like you get an X in this class, Y in this class and for GPA- average your grades. It’s good in some ways because it keeps you on your toes (no barely keeping an A) but bad because it can just be incredibly stressful. Plus, gym is an actual class O_O which irritates me.</p>
<p>My old school does grades by calculating your average of 4 quarters + the final exam and then I think:
93+ = A
90-92.5 = A-
High Bs = B+
and so forth</p>
<p>For our finals, the school doesn’t average it. They have a chart. Like what? So if you go BBA (quarter-quater-exam) you automatically get a B. Even if you have like 2 89’s and an 100 which should b an A, you get a B</p>
<p>So, erm, stimulating conversation guys :)</p>
<p>^ Ikr? Personally I get tired of GPA-talk.</p>
<p>Cheers to that, Catch.</p>
<p>I got an A on my AP Chemistry test!!~ YAY! I also did a perfect titration according to my teacher. Today has been a good day.</p>
<p>:P I got a 70 and my friend got a 97 on an AP Chem test UGH but she might do corrections for a half point sonI can get an 85</p>
<p>Hey, everyone! I’m a Junior, too. I tried to read through the whole thread - didn’t happen. So what’s up?</p>
<p>I got my first marking period grade - 96.47% </p>
<p>I’m really disappointed, considering that this is the fourth highest average, while I was ranked 1st/2nd last year.</p>
<p>This grade isn’t the one that is going on my transcript, since only the third marking period grade goes on the transcript, so that means I can still improve. But I am still crushed.</p>
<p>The thing is, I know i’m smarter or at least better than them nearly in all subjects… but I don’t put in as much as effort to each, because I am clumped with more extracurricular activities and responsibilities at home, while they all are extra-curricular activity-less and have much more time to spend on there classes.</p>
<p>Either way, no excuses, i’m still crushed :(</p>
<p>What we do in AP Chem when the teacher isn’t there (actually we do this when she’s there, too… just… we actually get some stuff done combined with goofing off when she’s there):</p>
<p>*Pull desks together and treat them as beds/couches
*Talk about League of Legends, WoW, Runescape, and MapleStory
*Talk about band
*Psychological analysis of each other (I don’t exude nerdiness, so people are always extremely surprised when I show this part of my personality)
*Laugh at the kids who walk by and give us funny looks because there’s only 5 of us and … again … treating desks as couches/beds
*Make strange faces at each other
*Talk about sex
*Laugh at the fact that one of us gets embarrassed when the rest of us casually talk about sex, correct anatomical names and all.</p>
<p>Seriously. 84 minutes. 2/5 of us opened the book and tried to read it/do problems, but then we got bored and decided not to do anything, like the other 3. Sub didn’t care what we did at all. She even said we were productive, chatted a little, were overall good, etc. Although, because we’re always this unenthusiastic about actually doing stuff, my teacher laughed when she read the report.</p>
<p>My (female) math teacher spent break today telling us (an all-girls class in an all-girls school) all about how boys are just naturally much smarter than girls are.
Fun fun fun.</p>
<p>^^ Your sub lets you do that? Sounds like a blast.</p>
<p>@Studious: Well, at first she was a little concerned, but because none of us showed any sort of alarm when she said she was going to tell our teacher what we were doing, she realized that I wasn’t lying when I said that we’re always like that. </p>
<p>So yeah, she didn’t really care after that. </p>
<p>We weren’t bothering her, and she actually participated in some of our more stupid conversations.</p>
<p>I hate most subs. In my Latin class, there was this one sub who gave me constant attitude and acted like we were a bunch of little kids.</p>
<p>My Englsih sub today made the kids who were doing their work sign a post it (about 5/35 kids) All we had to do was read 30 pgs of a book</p>
<p>My school stopped giving us free periods during absent teachers’ periods (we don’t do subs, just other teachers as replacements). I THINK it might be because last time they let us have a free period (this was back in ninth grade) we had a dance party with music blasted from the SmartBoard and kids from a bunch of different grades ditched class to par-tay.
It was really fun.
But apparently those days are over. Sigh.
My AP Bio teacher is leaving us for a double period on Monday with only a worksheet for company… I’ll see how that works out.</p>
<p>I just received the Thermochemistry PowerPoint notes and I don’t understand any of it. It just seems like all of it is running together. I got so confused I stopped and ate some pie. If any of you AP Chemistry students are in this unit or finished it, and advice?</p>
<p>What book do you use, that was ch.5 for me?</p>
<p>^ Yeah, chapter 5 from Chemistry: The Central Science 11th *AP Edition.</p>
<p>Which sections/concepts/problems are you confused on? I have my book on me.</p>