<p>@collegefountain, did you do a sample test? what did you get?</p>
<p>@CE527M, hope you have fun!</p>
<p>our band did well!!! :D</p>
<p>@UKGIRL, what kind of job?
I would like to get a job so I can have money of my own. :p</p>
<p>@SHMLUZA, Congrats to your band!</p>
<p>My PSAT is this wednesday. I hope to get above or around 200.</p>
<p>I have a paper round three days a week, hence the early mornings and I babysit quite often. I get around $30 a week from the paper rounds, and $8 an hour for the babysitting, if I got my conversions right! I’m not 16 until august so can’t really do much more, but I need to start saving up for the summer (at the end of 10th grade we get about double a normal summer)</p>
<p>@shmluza…yep, I did have fun. Cold, but fun. And congrats to your band!</p>
<p>@shmluza: No, I haven’t taken a sample test yet. I was going to after I finished reading the book. I’ll let you know what I get afterwards though.</p>
<p>Is anyone else starting to really miss class of 2012? I had a lot of 12ers that I was really close to. Now that they’ve gotten all settled, and I’m seeing pictures of all of their college fun, I’m starting to really miss them.</p>
<p>My goal for PSAT is >200. I took a practice test a few weeks ago and got a 198, but then I took another one yesterday and got a 212 (59 CR 77 M 76 W). I used Princeton Review by the way.</p>
<p>I really struggle with the reading sections, though. I find it difficult to understand the things like the author’s main point, what he/she would say in response to another author’s passage, etc. Does anyone have any tips?</p>
<p>Im taking the PSAT this wednesday. I did a practice the other day and i got a 186, which was alright except for my math score in which i expected 75+, as i am the best at math in my school, but i got a 61. The writing section is by far the one that screwed me over the most.
As RoseOak, i am aiming for a 200+ total. Depending on my score I will take an SAT in January, June, or October of 2013.</p>
<p>I’ve been doing some PSAT practice and have to say that the CR is really screwing me over every time. I’m beyond fine with math and writing, but CR just KILLS me…</p>
<p>How are you guys balancing rigorous classes and ECs, not to mention a social life? There’s so much I want to do, but so little time. I want to join my school’s soccer team, Model UN, and the Drama Club. But I also take piano classes, and I want to take acting and singing classes as well. Not to mention I want to start volunteering. Plus I want to get a job next year and I am planning to take an online Trig course so I could go to Calc next year! I don’t know what to do…Any advice?</p>
<p>I’m also taking the sophomore version (obviously) of the PSAT this Wednesday. I haven’t filled out a practice test yet.</p>
<p>Excuse my grammar, please, I’m kind of stressing right now.</p>
<p>Shaywood:
As for me, I am severely lacking EC’s. I only take Piano Classes and do MUN, though I do participate in a large Volunteering event, its around 10 hours a day for an entire week, once every year (thats how I accumulate large amounts of volunteer hours). This year I plan to enter NHS once its available (2nd semester I believe). My social life has been minuscule compared to previous years, much less parties and stuff but mostly due to lack of interest rather than time. I think one of our main problems as a society is applying our time appropriately. My homework isn’t more that 2.5 hours a day on its worst days, and I have 5 - 8 hours to do it, but I end up doing something else due to lack of motivation, unfortunately. I dont know if thats the same case for you specifically, if it is I recommend shutting off distractions and focusing on priorities, etc.</p>
<p>Actually, your situation is almost identical to mine. I always get distracted and lose my motivation, and my homework load is just like yours. I really have to apply myself, but I’m so afraid of burning out.</p>
<p>Jeez, I have a whole ot of homework, but I always wait until like 8:45 (PM) to start, and it`s ridiculous, I procrastinate so much.</p>
<p>I do a lot on the weekends. I’m SO busy during the weekdays that I get home at 10 some nights and now that travel season is starting, that takes away the weekend for tournaments.</p>
<p>But @Ce527M: I try and start my homework as soon as possible, but I get distracted by youtube every time or just jamming out to Pandora.</p>
<p>Yeah, once I start I also get distracted…but the music only helps me work, so it`s a catch 22 situation.</p>
<p>Honestly, just shut down your computer, go in a room away from all the electronics, and do your homework that you can do without a computer. 60% of my homework needs a computer to get it done, so then, well, I get distracted.</p>
<p>Most of my homework is done on the computer as well. I supposedly have ADD anyways…nothing ever works lol.</p>
<p>Do any of you actually enjoy doing homework? I really honestly do, I just hate being up until 2:00am and having so many deadlines.</p>
<p>@Marypoppopins…I don<code>t see how I</code>m lying…I<code>m only taking one AP class, and don</code>t have too many EC<code>s, so I</code>m not probably who you<code>re talking about, but I vouch for the authenticity…at my school, Biology is taken either freshman or sophomore year. If you have it freshman year, you can take Chem 10th if you have a high enough math, and also take AP Bio-Chem (A mix of both APs). I know a LOT of kids who are in Alg. 2 as a sophomore, or taking Pre-Calc right now. At my school, because of pre-rec</code>s, the most APs one can take is 2 for sophomore year. Maybe at your schools none of that`s possible, but at my school it is.
And secondly, why do you act like its a big deal to be taking more than one AP, when you said in another thread youre taking 2, and in another thread, you said you had a lot of ECs? I dont get it. And in a thread of yours asking about college, you said you were in your junior year...something doesn`t add up. Care to share?</p>
<p>@AlexHarper…yes and no. Math and science homework? Uh, no. I<code>ll like doing homework for those classes the day pigs fly. English, yeah, it</code>s OK. AP World, eh, depends, sometimes it can be OK, and even writing the essays we have to right wouldn<code>t be so bad if I could take my time writing, but working when I</code>m really tired and it`s in the late PM-early AM, not liking it.</p>
<p>@CE527M @AlexHarper I have 3 essays to write tonight, and I won’t be able to start on them until 7 or so. I am THE biggest procrastinator on earth, plus I get distracted really easily by the Internet. 
Most of my homework is computer-based, so the only way I can focus is basically to block a bunch of websites (facebook, youtube, etc…) and just listen to classical music haha.</p>
<p>Ha, I have a cause and effect analysis (luckily only that for AP) and then some math.</p>
<p>So I guess you`ll have to block CC as well ;). Are we distracting? :D</p>
<p>@Marypoppopins: I really take offense to this. I am so dedicated to my EC’s and so are other people on this site. I manage taking 4 APS and ECS because I am dedicated and because I have goals. I am in 7 clubs because I want to be and I make time for every single one of them. I love being busy and I don’t lie about any of my classes or EC’s.</p>
<p>At my school we take earth science freshman year, biology sophomore year and chem junior year.
I doubled up in science last year so I took earth science honors first semester and honors biology the second, like other studious students. We are not allowed to take Biology AP or Chemistry AP until Junior and Senior year. I managed to get into some APs because I do meet the prerequisites for them. My school doesn’t start foreign language until sophomore year. And the only reason I’m taking Honors Pre calc this year is because I doubled up.</p>