<p>@topaz1116 Wait, really? We’re recommended to take Math II after taking Algebra Ii honors. I guess in different schools curriculum is different.</p>
<p>I got my PSAT results
61 in Critical Reading, 75 in Math, and 65 in writing
total:201
Not sure how i feel, I should be able to do better in math. I’m going to study next year and hope to do better</p>
<p>I did really bad on my PSAT. 161. I don’t remember the exact breakdown however</p>
<p>@17Angel I think your math score is very good, if I were you I’d try to do better on the other categories.</p>
<p>Too bad next year’s PSAT is going to be different.</p>
<p>@Faultystart I heard that there’s some stuff (not much) on Math II that’s only covered on Precalc; I was thinking of taking it last year, but my cousin (she’s a senior at my school) told me not to. </p>
<p>@livelaugh7
H. English
H. Chemistry
H. Precalculus
Intro to Engineering Design
World History
Spanish 3
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<p>@topaz1116 Thats what I heard as well, except students have recommended to me to wait until I have taken AP Calc BC. Nice schedule by the way.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I really wish I had taken AP Stats instead of Engineering; but it fulfills my arts credits (which I don’t have space for junior and senior year), so I guess it’s all good. My schedule is really easy (even Precalc, which I’m only failing because I make dumb mistakes; I’m still in the top 40% of the class, though, and the teacher’s curving it so that the top 40% gets an A and into Calc BC).</p>
<p>I just heard that last year most kids got B minuses and Cs on the chemistry hnors exam, and this worries me greatly. The exam is tomorrow and I have to go to school even though I have an ear infection…</p>
<p>@Faultystart I think that honor chem is such an easy class (my highest grade) but then again, everyone thinks I’m crazy</p>
<p>@topaz1116 I have the same problem with the dumb mistakes. I’m doing something very similar, taking Honors Engineering with Graphics 1 to complete the arts requirement. My Honors PreCalc class has half the class absolutely failing and the rest are doing great. If you want to go into AP Calc BC, you need a term 1 and term 2 average of A-. I’ll barely be making that cutoff! Since I don’t have any room for AP Stats either, I am self-studying it this year since the only AP I’m taking this year is APUSH and junior and senior year is completely filled with APs.</p>
<p>i got a 190 on the PSAT</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I have an 89.3 in Honors Chem because my teacher is SO ANAL about homework. Like, my test grades are great. My homework grades (especially from first quarter, when he was especially harsh) are really bad, and since he works on a points system, it’s really hard to raise your grade. But an 89.5 is an A- in that class, so I should be able to get there (especially if I do well on the final). The material is really easy, but half my class is really dumb.</p>
<p>I’m not taking any APs this year because of stupid school policy; I’m not taking any AP humanities courses at all throughout high school, actually (although if I do really well next year, I may be able to convince my parents to let me take Lit), since the only two offered in the main sequence (AKA fulfill graduation requirements) are APUSH and AP Lit; both are super-hard courses that only 1 or 2 people per period get As in. APUSH is around 3 hours of homework a night; if you’re taking other AP courses, you’re due for hell (for example, two days after school started, I knew a girl who had 40 pages of APUSH notes to do, due the next day). AP Lit reads 12 books a year and is just really difficult. The only “easy” APs we have on campus are AP Stats and AP Psych (I think we have AP Human Geo as well, although no one takes it), and even those aren’t that hard. </p>
<p>I might self-study AP Lang junior year though; I’m better at the language parts of things than the analysis parts.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 That is terrible. All our units have been math-concentrated so I’ve been getting straight hundreds (although I got a 67 that dropped my grade drastically on a mc test). So right now I have a 95 in Chem. The material is easy, but, like you, my class is very dumb.</p>
<p>I have been debating whether or not I should have taken APUSH, and I’m sort of glad I did. My grade has 46 students in the grade, and only three have an A, two have an A-, I have a B. Hopefully, next term I’ll get a B+ or an A-. But, from what I have seen, if I can get a 5 on the AP exam, it will make up for the low grade in the class. (I officially gave up on a 4.0 gpa during my first term during freshman year). We had 5 chapters to write notes for over summer break for APUSH (winter break, we have 3 chapters) and that is approximately 40 pages of notes as well. The trick is to do a chapter a week and cram it to three hours Sunday morning.</p>
<p>I could never self-study a humanities course, just AP Stats and AP Psych. Good luck self-studying AP Lang!</p>
<p>Lang doesn’t really require much studying; just a good grasp of the English language (which I believe I have). </p>
<p>@topaz1116 You still have to do a lot of analysis in AP Lang though, just of non-fiction instead of literature. AP Lang seems like it’d be really hard to self-study, I know having a teacher helps me a lot.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m better at analyzing nonfiction, actually; literature is just difficult because there are so many ways it can go. I don’t know; if I do, it’ll be next year anyways. </p>
<p>I guess your schools must be larger than mine (it’s a small private schools, only about 80 per grade) since all of your schools offer so many APs. </p>
<p>I’m trying to study for chemistry but I’m having such a hard time distinguishing between extensive and intensive, and physical and chemical properties. Has anyone else done simple stoichiometry (involving molarity) in chemistry yet? I still can’t understand how it works.</p>
<p>Honors Chemistry was a really easy class, although I had to take a two week course over the summer so I could take it during Freshman year.</p>
<p>We haven’t even gotten our PSAT scores yet even though they’re probably sitting on them for no apparent reason and will never give them to us unless prompted to. I’m going to guidance first thing in the morning if I remember. </p>
<p>Anybody else taking exams right now? Chemistry, engineering, and bio tomorrow. :|</p>
<p>Tomorrow I have a Acc. Pre Calc exam I’m not worried about but I also have an AP Chem final and I’m really frustrated because the teacher didn’t review at all for the final and it’s supposed to be on everything we’ve learned so far this semester. All my other teachers had some sort of review for the final but we’ve still been learning new material and we haven’t reviewed at all. I’m scared because I have a 92% in that class and I don’t want it to go down. I already have a B in another class. Well, I better get to studying!</p>
<p>Friday I have AP English Language multiple choice (we already did the essay) and AP World History.</p>