<p>It’s like applying Spanish memorization.</p>
<p>Our Spanish book is En Espanol (3); it’s a really, really old book (they’re getting new ones next year; Spanish 1 and 2 have already started using them). We don’t have honors languages at my school. We just call our culture stuff Cultura, and there are a few questions on unit tests, generally.</p>
<p>@SallyStephens Last year my class rank was 3 out of 961 first semester and 3 out of 920 something second. This year I’m expecting it to go WAY down, hopefully it’ll still be under 50. Our class rank is by weighted GPA and a lot of people are taking 3 APs but I have a B in one of them.</p>
<p>Our Spanish book is Expresate as well but we aren’t assessed on Spanish culture. We were last year in Spanish 1 though.</p>
<p>Next week is finals for me, Thursday is for periods 1-3 and Friday for 4-6. Each period is 90 minutes and we have a modified day. Then we have winter break! Here are the finals I have:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Acc. Pre Calc / AP Calc AB
It’s just going to be a regular test but longer, on everything we learned of Pre-Calc and what we’ve learned of Calculus so far, like limits and derivatives. I have a 102% in this class so I’m not very worried but I’m still going to study.</p></li>
<li><p>AP Chemistry
Just a regular test but longer, on everything we’ve learned so far. I’m pretty worried about this one because I have a 92% in this class.</p></li>
<li><p>Spanish 2
We did a writing final yesterday and we have a speaking final this week. It shouldn’t be too hard.</p></li>
<li><p>PE -none</p></li>
<li><p>AP English Language
Our final is three parts, a 8 paragraph process essay on Frederick Douglass and slavery, an in class synthesis essay, and a multiple choice test. I already know I’m gonna have a B in this class, but I have a 79% so I’ll try hard on these to prevent my grade from becoming a C.</p></li>
<li><p>AP World History
Shouldn’t be too hard as long as I study (the tests are curved a lot like the AP test). The test is on chapters 1-22. There’s also an essay component which we can’t really study for since we don’t know what its on. We do the mc and essay in one 90 minute period. It’s supposed to simulate the AP exam.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>@dsi411
Hopefully your rank still be great! #3 is so super though…
I’m so nervous about rank, you don’t even know!! I’m going to calculate my GPA based on all my courses freshman and sophomore year so far, just so I can get a glimpse of what my GPA will be. I’ll let you guys know about it when I do that! In fact, I’m going to do it after I submit this comment.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t get a C in the AP English class for sure!! And you’re so lucky your spanish exam doesn’t incorporate the geoculture. Our teacher barely teaches the way she should so I guess by adding that stuff, she can cram content into a 100 question test lol.</p>
<p>Omg an AP Chem test on all the content so far?! I would be stressed beyond belief. I hold a 93 in my AP Chem class currently. It sucks because I have a 100 on all the homework and then we have one test (we only ever have one) and I got a 88 on it and then my average goes down to a 93. It makes no sense… I have to get super good if I want a high A.</p>
<p>Cool my AP Calc test sounds similar. And a 102?!!?! Lol you could get a 0 on the test and probably still maintain a high A, that is sooo cool! Isn’t it great when there’s no stress?!</p>
<p>Ugh I hate AP world. And chapter 22? You guys went that far? My class seems so behind… we are only on 12. Then again, our teacher is TERRIBLE but… idk haha. </p>
<p>Thanks, and yes its pretty nice to not have to worry about math. That way I can focus on my other finals.</p>
<p>IM going to kill myself over this Spanish Midterm we use Dime pasaporte al mundo 21 as our textbook and its all history mostly and then some short stories. We also go over the tenses, demonstrative pronoun, personal prnouns, articles, etc etc. Its taking forever to study for AP World I should probably get off of this website and focus on that…</p>
<p>All our midterms are at the end of January (the 21st to 23rd); I’m really glad I’m not stressing out right now. But I’m probably going to have a MUN position paper due that week as well, so I’ll have lots of work to do… I’m also borderline for three classes (math, history, and chem), so I’ll have to study hard for those (although I’ve really only got an A- in history because I don’t study; the tests are pretty easy, generally, but we’ve only had two, and I forgot to study for one and I just skimmed the book for the other–I prefer to spend my time worrying about other things. also I’m failing the projects category in that class). Hopefully my math grade raised because of the test we had Friday (I think I did really well on it).</p>
<p>@dsi411 102%, Wow! </p>
<p>@topaz1116 Yeah, I’m borderline As in all(!) of my classes, so I have to do well in those. </p>
<p>Ugh, I feel everyone is doing better in school than me.</p>
<p>Our teachers do this strange grading system where it’s no longer categories. Now assignments are 80%. And assignments includes not only assignments, but all our tests and quizzes. So it’s points, and no longer weight. It’s kind of worse actually…</p>
<p>And then our exams at the end of the quarter are the other 20%.</p>
<p>I’m not sure… would you guys prefer it like this? haha</p>
<p>@SallyStephens My Chemistry teacher already does this, and yeah, I like it more 70% test, 20% quis, and 10% other grading scales.</p>
<p>Borderline As are my life. Our midterms are towards the end of January and this is the first year my school has ever given a midterm so who knows. They are 10% of our grade. The final is another 10% and each term is 20%. </p>
<p>@SallyStephens My chem teacher runs entirely on a points scale–tests are worth 100 points, labs are 15 points, and assignments generally range from 5-10 points. He graded really hard on homework first quarter, so the highest grade anyone had in his class (and this is a girl who gets 100% on everything) was a 95; therefore, I have an 89. And it’s not even that my test grades are bad–it’s that he’s really, really anal about assignments. If your due date is wrong, you get a point off. If your formatting is off, you get a point off. If you don’t put something down he never instructed you to do, you get a point off. It’s really aggravating. His course is absurdly easy, but I’m still doing badly.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 And i thought my ap chem teacher grading homework was harsh… dang that’s killer. He just gives a ton of worksheets from this website he buys them from and grades them intensely but most of us are able to check our answers beforehand so it just is based on if you know what you are doing. </p>
<p>I miss the old grading scale in my school…</p>
<p>@topaz1116 That sounds exactly like every single teacher at my school, especially English and Science teachers. History teachers are a bet more lenient. Math teachers tend to just want you to show your work (the grading scale is rough though, 90% tests/quizzes and 10% homework and pop quizzes). Foreign language teachers are pretty standard teachers though.</p>
<p>@SallyStephens None of my teachers get anything from online 
they make everything up the day before they hand it out…</p>
<p>My school has the percent system for honors and AP classes and the point system for everything else.</p>
<p>Anyone here taking currenty or wants to take AP lang? That is my only AP i might do junior year (i am a class of 2017er)</p>
<p>@schmonstar yes and this year I’m taking pre-ap english, which is supposed to prepare us for AP Lang, but it seems pretty ineffective, considering we have written one essay and are on our second book, while the standard classes have done three essays and are on their 4th book…!</p>
<p>@schmonstar Yes, I’m taking it right now!</p>
<p>@schmonstar yeah i am going to take ap lang if im recommended by my english 2 teacher! I am really excited because the teacher is supposed to be the most amazing teacher at my school</p>
<p>@schmonstar Yeah, I really want to. I’m in Honors english and so its the class you have to be in to take ap lang next year.</p>
<p>Oh wow. Yea i’m not sure if i want to take it or not for sure, I only have an A- in honors (about a 90%) and my teacher would have to recommend me. I’m not much of a stand out student in that class so I don’t even think he will. Did you have to get recommended for it @Spiral7? </p>