<p>My school doesn’t ever have any review games. 
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<p>I wish my school was good. Everyone on here seems to get so lucky, with all their easy difficult classes. All of my teachers are so intense.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I honestly don’t like GPAs since they don’t necessarily measure a student’s intelligence because there is always some luck involved. There are those students who get A’s all the time because they have easy teachers and then there are students who don’t get A’s because they end up with challenge teachers.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 my school’s only like that for freshman and sophomore year. Once you become an upperclassman, class difficulties increase exponentially (there are a few difficult teachers freshman and sophomore year, notably for English, however). And the people who get easy teachers as underclassmen are royally screwed for the rest of high school.</p>
<p>Hahaha if I get a B this semester, it won’t be my first one xD I got 3 Bs last year–two of which were in English (89.6 and 89.9) and one in Algebra II (like 88.something; I don’t know, I screwed up really badly in math first semester–second semester I had, like, a 96). Our school’s GPA system counts any type of A as four points, which I guess is lucky; if they had a GPA system like some of yours (where an A- is a 3.5 or whatever), I don’t think a single person in the school would end up with a 4.0 by the end of senior year. </p>
<p>Unless I don’t manage to raise my Chemistry grade 1% (really, 0.4% would suffice), however, I should get a 4.0 for this semester, raising my GPA to a 3.84.</p>
<p>I think my GPA is around 3.85, but I’m not sure if that’s weighted or not. Hopefully, I’ll bring it up to something a little higher. Anyway, my history paper/project turned out to be eleven page long, and hopefully I’ll get a grade that reflects the work I put into my project. </p>
<p>On another note, I am not very happy with the large difficulty differences between the honors and regular classes at my school. For example, regular chemisty just started learning nomenclature of binary compounds, while chemistry honors learned that about a month and a half ago. This makes me worried for choosing my classes for next year, because since there’s such a gap between regular and honors/AP classes, I’m afraid I’m going to not learn enough or give myself too hard of a schedule.</p>
<p>Sorry about my rant about the class difficulty differences.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 Actually, at my school a lot of the better teàchers make their classrooms fun without sacrificing the intensity of the class. For example, at my school there are two AP World teachers, one is really good and the class is fun but there is A LOT of work for this class, and the other teacher’s class doesn’t have fun or play games but they usually do worse on the AP test. So it is possible to have a fun class and still learn a lot, you just have to get a really good teacher.</p>
<p>Anyhow. I’m okay with getting a B in Pre-IB English II. My teacher is strict-- Also. Has anyone read the Grapes of Wrath? She has opened my eyes to how many allusions there are to the bible. I hate life-- xD</p>
<p>Pre-Calculus is wonderfully easy. I don’t know how I should decide my schedule next year. A part of me wants to do IB HL Math and the other part of me wants to do SL Math but focus my HL somewhere else. Too bad they removed Physics HL because most of the people failed it-- </p>
<p>I won’t be getting any B’s this semester… </p>
<p>but @Calchong I also want to raise my English 2 Honors grade! I want it to be like 95 or above. I hate that it’s a 94; it’s such an easy class and it would be so awkward to have it be an A- or anything like that… I’m hoping to raise it with my exam!</p>
<p>I’m going to sound so dumb saying this LOL but I just recently learned that your average in a class increases when you get a score higher than your average. So my average in English is 94, so if I get above a 94 on the exam, my average will increase… isn’t that so interesting? </p>
<p>Our English exam is going to be all Of Mice and Men (kill meeee).
My AP Calculus AB exam is going to be from the beginning of the year, not including limits, which I’m happy about. I need to brush up on my implicit differentiation, though.
My AP World History exam is going to be chapters 1-12, ugh!!!
My AP Chem exam is just going to be acid and base. It’s pretty confusing ugh.
My AP Environmental Exam is from the beginning of the year 1-11 lol… she puts all the old tests and those are all on blackboard… awk.
My Spanish 3 exam is just chapters 2 and 3 vocab and grammar and some geoculture (which we have to memorize)</p>
<p>And band doesnt have an exam. I’m leaving band after this semester anyways… I don’t do marching and it’s dropping my GPA. (weighting it down mostly)</p>
<p>SO YEAH what about you guys? </p>
<p>@sallystephens our ap world exam is chapters 1-24 which will probably one of the more challenging exams. English is not hard it’s just that my teacher and I never agree on some answers because she has a different viewpoint as a 40 year old woman than I do as a 15 year old boy. Chemistry will be easy and my teacher is actually leaving next semester because she was so bad… She’s going back to her old job as an engineer at a power plant which kinda scares me because she is going to blow up the Florida power grid (she’s reslly dumb). Spanish 3 will be so hard I don’t really care though at the moment.</p>
<p>My GPA is a nightmare. Let’s not even talk about that.</p>
<p>The classes I take are some of the hardest at my school. To top that off, I have the hardest teachers. The fact that I’m a sophomore taking junior classes just makes it so much harder. UGH. Last year I was almost straight A-s and one B+ and a few As… ugh. This year might be better (except APUSH)</p>
<p>Coool! Do you guys know your class rank</p>
<p>I find mine out after this semester and let’s just say I’m so nervous/anxious/excited ahh.</p>
<p>I’m top 10%. Most likely not any higher</p>
<p>@SallyStephens Well, my English 10 Honors is going to be about the history of the english language, 1984, Beowulf, Grendel, The Canterbury Tales, and a few other short stories. The only things I’m worried about are the essay and the quote identifications.</p>
<p>Chemistry Honors exam is going to be about, well, everything I’ve learned so far. Everything from lab safety, to the Archimedes Principle, to nomeclature of binary compouds, to molarity and stoichiometry. Ugh. I’m worried about multiple choice.</p>
<p>Spanish III Honors exam is probably the one I worry most about. There is going to be 40 grammar and 40 vocabulary multiple choice questions, two or three article to read and answer questions, some fill in the blancks with either vocabulary or grammar, sentence translations, and a writing portion. Last uear, some people didn’t even reach the writing portion, and most never finished the exam. The grammar’s pretty much all review, but I have 400+ new vocabulary words and all of the shrot films and readings we’ve read so far.</p>
<p>Algebra II Honors won’t be too hard, but I’m worried about function operations and compostion since we just learned that.
I’m not worried at all for European History since it’s 1. my easiest class, 2. it’s not annhonors class. However, I’m worried about the chronology. We also have a lot of material to cover.</p>
<p>Hopefully I don’t do so bad that my GPA drops. But, yeah, that’s it for me.</p>
<p>I feel like we will all have similar Spanish 3 Honors exams… 
That’s how mine sounds lol</p>
<p>Do you guys use Expresate for spanish? I hate how it includes geoculture and stuff. Like it’s spanish not spanish history ugh 
just an extra burden of things to memorize… it makes the exam so stressful when it shouldn’t even be</p>
<p>@SallyStephens We use Descubre 3 for my Spanish class. It includes lots of culture information about Mexico, Spain, etc., and there are a bunch of readings and short films to watch. We also use Triangulo (the a has an accent) as a supplement for vocabulary and listening.
And what do you mean by geoculture?</p>
<p>@SallyStephens Of Mice and Men was a great book. </p>
<p>I’m probably not in the top 10%; maybe top 20%? I’m at least in the top 25%, but a lot of people got 4.0s last year. They tell you whether you’re in the top 15% junior year, but my school doesn’t rank otherwise. If I don’t get any more Bs, then I’m pretty much in the top 15% (which is really good at my school).</p>
<p>The top 5% of my school is made up of 4.0s.</p>
<p>@Kawaiiii Sure it was a great book but we already had a 75 question test on it two weeks ago so I don’t know how much more she can ask us lol.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 What sucks is I have NO IDEA what my rank is at allllll. They never tell students until the first semester of their sophomore year is over. Isn’t that scary? lol. </p>
<p>@Faultystart Geoculture is basically what you said – the culture and history of Mexico and Spain and stuff and she has us memorize all the facts and then the questions on the test are true and false of those statements. It’s sometimes difficult since it is all in Spanish. </p>