<p>It would be a 81 in Honors Physical Science- Freshman Year. I wasn’t in the right mindset…but right now I’m making mostly straight A’s (4 Honors/AP). And i know the AP World feeling…:P</p>
<p>So at the end of the marking period, what is now your lowest grade? I have an 86 in Algebra 2. Hopefully I can bring it up to a high B (90-92) so it will be easier to get an A by the end of the year.</p>
<p>@txhsteen - Yay, someone who understands! But seriously, I feel like the tests are 30% knowledge and 70% luck.</p>
<p>@Slyther - The quarter for me ends this Friday. As of right now, it’s AP Stats…I have a 91, but luckily all my other grades are 97+?
I have a 97 in AP World right now but it’s definitely going to drop once grades are put in on Wednesday. I’m guessing probably a 90 LOL I definitely bombed that test.</p>
<p>The lowest grade I’ve ever gotten was an 83% in geometry freshman year. </p>
<p>The lowest grade I have now is an 89.5% in Algebra 2. I also have an 89.8% in Chemistry. I HATE NAILBITTING GRADES</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity
How is AP Stats easy? It’s one of the hardest math classes at my school. The amount of people who get A’s is like 10-15%</p>
<p>Lowest grade ever (as in middle + high school) was an 87-88 in Spanish, two years in a row. Since I took that in middle school I sorta want it off my transcript. :P</p>
<p>This quarter my lowest grade was a 90.9 in ap gov. I’m way thankful my school’s on a 10-point scale and doesn’t do that whole plus/minus thing.</p>
<p>Hopefully I raise my B’s up. Waiting for my FRQ grade to come in for AP World, it can substantially raise my grade to an A. My Japanese grade just died as well as biology (the class just got ridiculously more difficult = she told us we had a test the day before we took it). I have a test almost everyday this week, good thing I have one understanding teacher who let me reschedule to take her test next week. I wish I had more teachers that understand teenagers.</p>
<p>@swifty - I think the content in itself is pretty easy! I wish I had a higher grade, though…I kind of blame it on my teacher, because I’m really scared to ask her questions and she doesn’t make herself very approachable. And the notes she gives are all accessible online; she literally just reads the power points.</p>
<p>It’s kind of surprising how only 10-15% of people at your school get A’s in stats! It’s mainly just calculator work and I’d assume it’s a lot easier than calc (although I’ve never taken it). Each question on the test (for me) is worth ~7 points, though, so if the class at your school is anything like mine, I could see how a lot of people would fall under a 90.</p>
<p>Has anyone else had an experience with probably not making the top 10% due to simply the competitive nature of the school? Do you know anyone older that this has had an impact on? </p>
<p>The reason I’m asking is because I live in TX where being in the top 10 of your graduating class gives you auto admission to any state school…</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity
Only about 1/4 of our tests are calculator… we don’t even use it for part 1 of the tests. The tests ask for patterns and analyzing more than anything and it’s a nightmare</p>
<p>More people pass Calc BC than Stats lol</p>
<p>I do, @txhsteen. My school’s overcrowded and it’s very competitive because people are told to be the very best by their parents and whatnot (people really enjoy sporting college sweater when it’s cold, I’ve seen lots of Stanford and Harvard sweaters). My school’s also in a pretty well off place so it has a lot of financial support so more AP classes and the like, there are a lot of tutor and SAT places here, too. A lot of kids’ parents are wealthy as well, so you have a lot of people being sent to tutors and SAT schools here. Getting into the Top 10 is pretty hard with the amount of people here. There’s just a lot of people with good grades generally so usually when graduation happens there’s not 1 valedvictorian, but over 17 most of the time.</p>
<p>I submitted my NSLI-Y app awhile ago then they decided to extend the deadline. Okay…okay thanks.</p>
<p>What summer programs are you all planning on applying to? I was looking at a few interesting research ones, but I wasn’t qualified for a lot of them because I turn 16 after summer in September…if only they only had grade restrictions.</p>
<p>By the way, does anyone have any experience with PROMYS?</p>
<p>catchinginfinity - I plan to apply to Summer Ventures in North Carolina. The state pays for it, and only 400 students are accepted, so it’s very competitive.</p>
<p>^What part of NC are you from if you don’t mind me asking?</p>
<p>I’m not sure yet. That was the first app I sent in. I have a lot in mind but I need to finalize everything with my parents so we’re both on the same page. It seems like the STEM field has soo many good opportunities. I wish I was a little more interested.</p>
<p>@gbrl - That sounds cool! I don’t think New York has stuff like that, unless you live in the urban areas (which I don’t). /:</p>
<p>I got a 75 on a stats test I could have sworn I got over a 90 on…does anyone else have a dilemma where they think they understand everything but then they end up doing terribly on tests…</p>
<p>I feel stupid for saying this now LOL my lowest was a 20% this year in european history… we were supposed to read a section for homework and the next day we had a pop quiz, but i guess im the one to blame since i didnt read that section at all. hahah</p>
<p>I had another pop quiz today (for a different class), and this time I actually did the hw and read the book. I hate it when I fail the pop quizzes, because no one remembers the specifics… there goes my grade for English…</p>
<p>and catchinginfinity- every single bio test. i leave the room thinking like “probs got in the 80s” and end up in the 70s. But partly, it’s really my teacher’s fault. He argues with the textbook and thinks he’s right all the time. Even when we show evidence, he just shrugs it off and says that it’s misleading (when its clearly not)</p>
<p>Does everyone here go to a school that operates on a semester system? My school does quarters, so we just started a new marking period. :). We still have Midterms and Finals that count for 10% of our final grade :(</p>
<p>@gbrl10 I also plan on applying to Summer Ventures! A bunch of people in my calculus class went last year and they loved it, haha. This is kind of random but are you also applying to NCSSM?</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity YES omg I finish chemistry tests thinking I aced them and the last two she’s handed back, I’ve gotten an 87 and an 89. But my teacher never hands out test grades until like 6 weeks later so you can’t even tell if you’re doing good or if you need to study more or… ugh</p>