<p>Have fun superstarlala (I am assuming you are going to IC with USY)!</p>
<p>Our finals are like three weeks after we get back from break, just enough time for us to forget everything over break and then be expected to learn new material for finals…</p>
<p>I had my Calc 3 final today, and it went…not so well. I had to get above a 60% to keep my A, so hopefully I got that. </p>
<p>I have just a physics final tomorrow (should be easy) and an AP Enviro final Friday. My APUSH class doesn’t have one :D</p>
<p>We don’t have finals until two weeks after break, so I don’t have to worry about finals yet. </p>
<p>To all those who have finals before break, GOOD LUCK!! :)</p>
<p>~900 to 1000 students, closer to 900.</p>
<p>@Gard: My tumblr is dothejitterbug, and I’ve never smoked anything (and don’t plan to). </p>
<p>Finals start the 22nd of January (Tues.) and end that Friday. Break starts this Monday.</p>
<p>I want to cry…I hate the SAT!</p>
<p>@artsygirl and followthereaper</p>
<p>Which state do you live in? I didn’t know schools could expel students for low GPAs.</p>
<p>Unless you go to private school?</p>
<p>We don’t have finals, we have CRES tests. In each fine art elective, math classes, sciences classes, language classes, physical education and social studies/history classes have CRES tests, except for AP classes. You need to pass 1 or 1 out of the 2 CRES tests (some classes have 1 or 2 CRES tests) and a passing grade to earn credit for that class.</p>
<p>I have 1 CRES test in Latin which is in January and the second CRES test in American Studies II which is also in January. The first semester ends January 16th I believe.</p>
<p>@eoaynn My school doesn’t expel students for low GPAs, I think my class size just decreases a bit every semester because kids get expelled for other reasons/transfer to the secondary school because they’re so low on credits.</p>
<p>A school with 4000 students contains a ton of really smart kids and a ton of the stupidest kids around, hahah.</p>
<p>@gardenia, what? hahaha i smoke salmon XD like, the fish? bad joke, nvm
people on CC actually do “bad” stuff? woah I thought it was all academics/extracurriculars so the worst that could happen was erm… cheating?! </p>
<p>Anyways my school actually does have a bit of a “backstage” smoking scene. A few people from my grade got caught smoking weed freshman year. Before that I didn’t even know what “weed,” “pot,” etc. were except for what they’re originally used for. </p>
<p>I have a tumblr but I’ve only logged on like, once… I do go on tumblr though… like “Letters to Mr. Potter” and a bunch of other Harry Potter ones. By the way, are any of you Harry Potter fans (as in you actually read the books)? It annoys me when people say they are fans yet only watch the movies. I talk to them about like say Peeves and they’re like, who the heck is that?</p>
<p>How about the Lord of the Rings? I’ve been wanting to read it for the past 3-ish years but then high school happened. 
I haven’t watched any of the movies, and don’t plan on doing so until I finish the books. </p>
<p>I also have read these “popular” series, so we can discuss 
The Hunger Games, His Dark Materials, Eragon, Da Vinci Code/Demons and Angels, Percy Jackson, Warriors (yes, I know, what?), and that’s all I can remember right now. </p>
<p>But if you talk to me about Twilight, sorry, but it better be remotely intelligent. Not “ooooooohhhhh Team edward” or “team black” or jacob or whatever. Sorry, no fan-girling. I don’t even like the books. They make my brain feel like mush. I don’t understand why they’re popular, but you really don’t want to get me started on the topic of Twilight. </p>
<p>Anyone like English classics (as in British)? I’m a really big fan of the British classics, they seem a lot less garbage-y than American classics. Sorry, it’s personal bias…</p>
<p>@eoaynn I live in Pennsylvania, but the reason we can get rid of people with low GPAs is because we are a magnet school. Magnet schools in my district can set a GPA requirement for students that currently attend.</p>
<p>@biovball, I’m sure you did fine. I think to get under 60% on a final takes special skill unless you had a crappy teacher/professor. What level of physics are you in?</p>
<p>To everyone else: I used to have finals after winter break, but they changed it this year. Can’t say which one is better. All I know is that I think having them after winter break made more incentive to become lazy rather than to actually study. However, before winter break, teachers decide to give crazy amounts of homework, so I barely had any time to study. Both are kind of crappy, but if I’m going to have to take finals, I’d rather do them earlier. I will be enjoying my first true “holiday break” since middle school.
… except not. I will be doing summer program apps, perhaps starting an Etsy shop, studying for SAT subjects and AP tests, not to mention the SAT I. Also, I have to finish my science fair board for the regional one, and finish up a collection of poems for a competition. Perhaps a few essays too. Still got plenty to do. </p>
<p>As of now, I only need to take my Physics AP C Final, which is going to be completely free response. I don’t know whether to be relieved or worried.</p>
<p>^I would be relieved. MC is way harder for me, or at least it is for Physics B.</p>
<p>@quidditchcat: British? Like Lord Byron and the Brontes and all? LOVE. Do you do French? Dumas, yes?</p>
<p>Anyone excited for the end of the world? I’m wondering if GMT or ET…</p>
<p>@shinexalive, yeah
My favorites are A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, 1984, The Importance of Being Earnest (Okay, it’s a play and it’s IRISH not British, but same general area), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (best Shakespeare play I’ve read, period), Heart of Darkness, Northanger Abbey, Pygmalion, Vanity Fair, The Woman in White, Murder in the Cathedral, The Lifted Veil, and Bleak House. </p>
<p>And as a young kid I enjoyed Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Frankenstein, and Dr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. </p>
<p>I don’t believe in the end of the world, sorry.</p>
<p>Wow, I thought my school was small, but not that small. My class has 50 kids and a few on the verge of explusion or drop out. I am a massive Potter fan. My spring play this year is the importance of being ernest! Auditions are just after break I have most of my finals grades back all A’s. Just waiting on my history classes and spanish 3. My college credits were both A final grades too. So less freaking out than some in my class.</p>
<p>lol got my psat back today. 214…thats like a 200 point drop from my october sat. kinda disappointing, and i’m definitely not making the cutoff for my state…oh well</p>
<p>yay, brandewyn!
@Zeesus, yeah i finally got my PSAT back and I was also lower than my October SAT. I had to get at least 220 to make the cutoff, but I fell short at 216. T_T</p>
<p>I finished with a 94 in Calc 3!!! So happy!</p>
<p>And idk what I got in physics, because I had a 90% going into the final. The class is ridiculously easy, but I had 13 missing assignments because I pretty much just play games on my phone in that class…probably should change that lol.</p>
<p>AP Enviro test tomorrow, gotta finish a missing assignment I had and hopefully I do well enough on the final to get an A.</p>
<p>And I finished APUSH with a 95.</p>
<p>Your high school has a Calculus 3 class? </p>
<p>I have 99.8% in AP Bio, which I’m really happy about, but I’m not sure the class is really preparing us for the exam. (Not that that should be the purpose, but no one got a 5 last year.)</p>
<p>My class has roughly 700 students, and my 9-12 high school has 3000 kids.
As for finals, I wish I could take them anytime soon. My school has it set up where some classes end next month and some end in June. For those of us taking APs, they pretty much all end in June, so I’m looking forward to 7 AP exams and a band final in June. Midterms in January though.</p>