<p>^Wow. That’s so much work for an online class and an elective like gym. So glad my school doesnt follow me around asking for all these heart rates and stuff. I always get kinda embarrassed whenever i tell people this, but- lol I can’t run the mile in less than ten min. I did the mile run only like five/ six times in my whole life, and my fastest was probs somewhere around ten/ eleven. But I think it’ll be a sorta fun experience to do an online gym class </p>
<p>@Team- how was bio? I’m taking it in May and/or June… I’m really nervous though cuz my current bio teacher doesnt teach at all and I dont learn anything…</p>
<p>Not too bad. Some of the stuff was a bit confusing because the answer choices were rather similar, so it was hard to differentiate between the answers, especially since it was timed.</p>
<p>If you’re not learning anything in class, self study is always an option. Get the Barron’s SAT II Biology prep book and read it through, taking comprehensive notes as you go along. A month before the exam, review your notes and take a practice test every other day. Use the practice tests to gauge your weak areas and re-read those chapters in Barron’s.</p>
<p>Another thing you’ll want to do as you’re taking practice tests is extensive note taking for any material in the question you don’t know. The first practice test I took was a Kaplan one, and there was a question about aldosterone. I didn’t know what it was since Barron’s didn’t cover it, so I Googled it. Another question had “zymogen” as an answer choice; although zymogen wasn’t the correct answer, I still looked it up and jotted it down. The notes I took after I finished Barron’s and while I was taking the tests were titled “Notes to Know.” (When I say “while I was taking the tests,” I don’t mean WHILE I was testing; after each practice test, I’d go through the questions that I circled due to a foreign concept being in the question and Google the stuff in the question.)</p>
<p>omg thanks so much! I will take extensive notes and study from practice tests! I have a few additional specific questions if you dont mind answering lol</p>
<p>Are the questions mostly straight forward? Like questions that dont try to trick you? </p>
<p>Are the questions like super specific? As in do you need to know all the minor details to get at least a 750? (haha 750 is my goal)</p>
<p>And lastly, I’m kinda a slow test taker so time is actually important. Did you find yourself having to rush the last like five questions or something?</p>
<p>@TeamRocket - Yeah, that makes sense. Do you feel like the math on the ACT is significantly harder than the math on the SAT? I can usually score an 800 on math but it’s mainly the critical reading that’s bringing down my practice SAT scores. I heard the CR section of the ACT is a lot more straightforward…</p>
<p>@55al00m - Our school forces us to run the miles 2 times a year. Apparently it’s mandated by New York State…it’s always New York that’s complicating things. /: If we don’t get a time under 10 minutes, we have to re-run it.</p>
<p>What APs are you all considering self-studying in the future, and do any of you have any experience with doing so? I want to try Macro or Micro, Mandarin, Human Geography, and possibly Psych, but I’m not really sure how I would go about it. I would probably end up procrastinating. /:</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity- rerun it? LOL man i’ll be so screwed if I go to NY. My current gym teacher made us do one pushup and like five sit ups and like five min of stretching and we were done with warmups :’) and nah, not going to self study ahah</p>
<p>@55al00m- you’re not the only one haha i mean i can run a mile but i get super exhausted. :(</p>
<p>@nitelite- omg those grades are pretty good! especially since you’re a soph taking really challenging courses.</p>
<p>Glad I don’t ever have to run the mile for the rest of high school. My grades are slowly rising as my nefarious activities(procrastinating activities) have begun.</p>
<p>A VA Spanish Language Academy, StarTalk, and maybe a JMU leadership camp. (my dad wants me to apply but I don’t know anything about it). Next summer, I’m applying to science programs.</p>
<p>@Slyther - Not really familiar with any of those programs, but I would apply to more if you know that they’re somewhat prestigious! If you have to apply, you’re not guaranteed acceptance. Better safe than sorry.</p>
<p>@TeamRocket - I’m probably going to end up applying to ~6 just because I’m so paranoid that all of my plans will fall through. Are they all science/math related?</p>
<p>Yes, except for my Japan trip. If that works out, then I’m not doing any summer programs. I want to apply to some of the physics ones, but I suck at physics, so I dunno. :/</p>
<p>Most of the ones I’m doing are focused on biochem.</p>
<p>@TeamRocket - I noticed you on the other thread, haha (: So are you planning on applying to the physics program at Mich State? That’s probably going to be my backup, or I might go if I get accepted into another program anyways, because it’s only a week and it’s free.</p>
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Instead of waking me up at 5:30, it woke me up at 4:30. I’m just now realizing this at 5:15, lol.</p>