<p>Don’t you have to take the AP classes to ensure you do well on the Subject Tests?</p>
<p>@dsi411 </p>
<p>“So I have social anxiety and selective mutism which makes it hard for me to talk to people, but I am getting help with a therapist.”</p>
<p>Here is what I think:</p>
<p>Your disorder is actually diagnosed. You see a therapist. But you don’t want to be unfair in the grading. I would talk to your teacher and ask him/her if you could do something else in place of the socratic seminar grade. My suggestion would be that at the end of every week for socratic seminar, you give your teacher notes on what happened in class and interesting things that you took down. Thus, you will be graded fairly while still being excused for your disorder. IMO, I think having a suggestion in place of it is better and will more likely allow the teacher to accept the proposal you have placed in front of them. And you grade will get a nice boost with a 100% in that column :)</p>
<p>I’m in Honors Chemistry and we are doing Electromagnetism and Quantums and stuff like that. Just started half a week ago. In Honors Physics we are finishing up out Forces unit. </p>
<p>Term ends Friday. I have 5 tests and an essay due then…</p>
<p>Has anyone ever built a mousetrap-powered car project in school? I’m really terrible mechanically, and we have to use household/trash items and/or the limited supplies in our school’s shop. </p>
<p>@SallyStephens It is. I saw videos, and they were really, really good because all the members already knew how to spin rifles (I won’t even get started on flags; basically the progression in Colorguard is shield—flag—rifle—saber (most schools don’t use sabers during marching season, though)).</p>
<p>I got a 95% on my math midterm! Only class whose grade I’m waiting on is English; my teacher has to input a book report and a test, so I’m not sure about my grade yet. But I think I’ll get an A in the class.</p>
<p>But I did end up with an 89% in Chem (sobs) because of my dumb teacher. Like, the smartest girl I know (she got a 98% on a hard precalc test once and she was sad) has a 95% in that class because of our teacher’s idiosyncrasies. </p>
<p>If I had gotten seven more points in various places (that teacher uses a points system), I could have gotten a 90% in the class.</p>
<p>@Calchong I used Barron’s for Bio; I thought it was pretty good. But you need quite a bit of time to get through the whole book.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Everyone at my school takes them after honors courses (unless it’s physics, since we don’t have a physics course that isn’t either for juniors or is an AP). I mean, I also know people who the SAT Bio after Bio courses, but most people take it after 9th grade Honors Bio (I would have taken it in June, but I had a really bad Bio teacher, so I used the summer to (not) study). </p>
<p>@livelaugh7 If I want to even think about ivy league, i have to apparently take an SAT subject test. I was thinking math and language arts definitely.</p>
<p>And I’ll most probably take the Bio one since I took AP Biology freshman year (last year) and got a 4 on the exam (the highest grade in our school!!! Like only 5% people got a 5 this year and 12% 4’s) I will probably survive the SAT test, ,but to be honest I have no clue.</p>
<p>So… I’m going to self study with my AP Bio review books i used for the AP exam and those should be sufficient.</p>
<p>@SallyStephens I would definitely take a math Subject SAT test but I don’t want to rush it, depending on what class you are taking. Good luck with Bio though.</p>
<p>The only AP I’ve ever taken (am taking) is APUSH. You have to take the Honors course of the subject before taking it’s AP at my school. So after I finish Honors Chemistry, I’m allowed to take AP Chem, as long as I got a B+ or above and permission from my teachers and the department head.</p>
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<p>Grades this term</p>
<p>** Honors Spanish 3:** A-
(could jump to an A)
** Honors PreCalculus:** B+
(its on the edge of a B, may even drop.)
** AP US History: ** B-/B/B+
(no idea but definitely somewhere in that range, most likely a solid B)
** Honors English 10:** A/A-
(depends on my essay grade)
** Honors Chemistry:** A
** Honors Physics:** A
*(may drop to an A-) Health: A</p>
<p>This was a very weird term. I got two Bs and I’m really disappointed in myself. On the bright side, I am now a peer tutor for Algebra Two Honors and participate in SciOly, HOSA, Math Team and Debate Team.</p>
<p>Do you guys think these are good grades, taking into account difficulty?</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Our school’s honors course goes pretty in-depth if you have a good teacher. Even my teacher covered most of the information in the prep books–just not plants because our class went super-slow.</p>
<p>My cousin took SAT Chem after only a week of studying (after our Honors course) and she got a 780. </p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Especially in APUSH (because, well, it’s APUSH), it’s not bad. Anyways, only semester grades appear on transcripts, so you have this quarter to raise your grades up (math definitely seems attainable).</p>
<p>At my school, in order to take an AP science course, you have to have taken biology and chemistry (either honors or nonhonors); math and English courses just go in sequence. Other than that, the only prerequisites for sciences are occasionally Algebra II or whatever (for Physics 1, concurrent enrollment in Precalc; for Physics C, concurrent enrollment in Calculus). Also, Physics 1 is a prerequisite for Physics C.</p>
<p>We got our Calculus books today. The math course I’m in is supposed to be half Pre-Calculus and half AP Calc AB but we’ve already started on Calculus. We’re only learning limits right now which isn’t too hard, but I fear that Calculus is going to be hard later. Hopefully I’ll be able to understand it. </p>
<p>Is anyone else taking a math class that is Pre-Calc first semester and AP Calc AB second? What are you learning right now?</p>
<p>@dsi411 Our textbook is a college textbook but if you take Honors PreCalc, you basically take PreCalc and AP Calc AB. We are on logarithms though…</p>
<p>@topaz1116 I sort of slacked off, especially in math; I didn’t do well on my first grad (C-). It ruined my grade. </p>
<p>I didn’t know that only semester grades show up. I was under the impression that it was just the final grade.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 your grades are fine! definitely hope that Precalculus grade doesn’t drop though:) Youre Doing the best you can and Thats Whats important. </p>
<p>I’m typing this on my phone and idk why random words are capitalizing. lol</p>
<p>I slacked off SO much during the first two weeks and I spent the rest of the term stressing on making it up. Ugh.
All my friends have higher grades in similar classes (granted, I have the most rigorous schedule)</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 At least at my school, quarter grades don’t matter–they’re simply a progress report for how you’re doing halfway into the semester. They don’t go on our transcripts.</p>
<p>Unless your quarter grades are separate for each quarter (as opposed to the semester grade being an average of two quarters), it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 We have three terms so I’m not sure. We get a transcript for that year at the end of each marking period. I’m not sure what it looks like on our transcripts. To my knowledge, it’s just the final grade that matters</p>