<p>My Junior Year schedule</p>
<p>AP US History
AP Language
AP Physics
Honors or Regular Math…idk yet. (Math is my weak point)
Spanish II
Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Weightraining. </p>
<p>My sophomore year, I’m taking:</p>
<p>English II Honors
Algebra II Honors (I see so many sophomores in pre-cal on this site, y’all are amazing)
Chemistry Honors
World History AP
French 4 AP
Psychology AP
Symphony II</p>
<p>Between WHAP, French, psych and symphony I don’t have much time for a social life, sigh</p>
<p>Junior year:</p>
<p>English Lang AP
Pre-cal Honors
Physics Honors
APUSH
Chemistry AP
Statistics AP
Symphony III</p>
<p>Eh according to a ot of my friends, psych isn’t really tough at all. </p>
<p>It probably depends on the school and the teacher.</p>
<p>Junior Year in a nutshell</p>
<p>AP Chemistry
AP English Language
APUSH
H Precalc
H Spanish 5
H Chinese 3
Ceramics
(+required gym…<em>shudders</em>)</p>
<p>+ESOL Tutor
+Girls AND Boys VB manager
+Yearbook co-captain
+MUN active member
+Cross Age Connections active member
+Link Crew
+++Waitressing 2+ hours/night</p>
<p>I’m thinking of applying to college a year early, so I might switch to APUSH after all. And I might change APES to AP Chem (although I really want to take APES junior year). </p>
<p>GUYS I GOT AN A- IN PHYSICS!!!</p>
<p>better than my B+ last term</p>
<p>YES</p>
<p>@topaz1116 Although I would love to go to college early, I wouldn’t just cause of all the social factors involved. Why are you?</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I don’t know, I just feel like I’d love going to college and the freedom involved–your course offerings don’t lie in a narrow range and all. High school is fleeting, and honestly, the only reason I wouldn’t want to go is because I’d be leaving my friends behind (and missing senior homecoming). If I get in somewhere good, though, I’d honestly just prefer to leave high school behind. Although there are a lot of good memories associated with it, there are also bad memories and events that have stuck with me for years because of the people there. Our high school’s environment isn’t particularly healthy in either case. </p>
<p>Also college textbooks are 1000 times more interesting than high school ones. </p>
<p>@topaz1116 I really do agree with you, but I don’t know… I really don’t. I’d love to go to college early though!</p>
<p>I just talked the someone who claimed the easiest math on the SAT was “simple algebra” and that the english is just “comprehension” and “picking words” that you just do in daily life.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Guys, for those of you that have/are taking Pre-Calc, what was your favorite topic that you learned about?</p>
<p>I did pre-calc but it was only for 9 weeks and then we started Calculus. We had already learned some pre-calc stuff in Algebra 2, though. All I remember learning is vectors, matrices, and solving trigonometric equations, so I guess my favorite was matrices.</p>
<p>It was math. Not fun at all. </p>
<p>I am unfortunately a member of the class of 2017. I say unfortunate because I will be taking the revised SAT.</p>
<p>Is it true that it’s being dumbed down? I believe I am capable of achieving 2300+, but if it is being set to a lower standard, than achieving a perfect 1600 on the new test won’t count for much.</p>
<p>The CollegeBoard and Khan Academy claim they are trying to level the playing field for minorities, women, and low-income students, groups who statistically score lower on the test (for reasons other than “The test is biased”). If their way of doing this is making the test easier, than that is really twisted, seeing as there is no field to level via the test in the first place.</p>
<p>They shouldn’t be leveling the playing field. Ever since George Washington people had the belief that you shouldn’t give additional support to smaller factions. Anyways, asians are technically minorities so…
And in addition, the sat doesn’t require any studying besides what you learn in school so low income families should not be supported TO A POINT (notice how I’m not against support for them in general) that they have to change the test.
Furthermore, the test is not biased, it’s just that certain people live in certain communities where working hard isn’t really encouraged from a young age.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 i liked logarithms and exponentials </p>
<p>Exactly. The test is not biased. People need to stop making excuses. And I’m sure the CollegeBoard and Salman Khan know the test isn’t biased. Sal’s too smart for that.</p>
<p>Some people think the CollegeBoard may have ulterior motives for the test revision such as:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The ACT took over the SAT in terms of number of test-takers last year. People are attracted to the ACT as a test that is supposedly easier, as opposed to the SAT which is an aptitude test. So they are making the test easier to compete with the ACT. (Theory).</p></li>
<li><p>The CollegeBoard says they are concerned that over half of high school students don’t qualify as college-and-career-ready through assessment of test results. Furthermore, African Americans and Hispanics disproportianatly score below the bar, and women consistently score averaged below men by about 110 points.<br>
<a href=“The%20theory%20is%20in%20brackets”>So, apparently, the CollegeBoard’s solution to this problem is to make the test easier so more students shall pass. Set the bar lower, and we can call these illiterate kids proficient. And, to put a cherry on top, women and minorities will score higher, and our test will no longer be allegedly racist or sexist. Horray!</a>.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The above assumes that the test will in fact be easier. Part of the basis for saying it will be easier is that they are getting rid of “obscure” vocabulary words. I personally think a lot of SAT words aren’t obscure.<br>
(“Oh, But what about the kid who lives in the ghetto, he wouldn’t know those words. That’s unfair and discrimintory to actually expect knowledge from them, we can’t have that, can we?”) </p>
<p>But some say it may actually be harder, particularly the math. The CollegeBoard claims they are trying to eliminate the ability to backsolve, strategic guessing, eliminating. etc as these techniques have nothing to do with actually knowing the material. The SAT will be more of an assessment test, and no longer an aptitude test.<br>
They say that this will put TestPrep companies out of business. More affluent students are the ones who have access to the expensive Veritas Prep etc. so this is part of their plan of “level the playing field” for lower income students. </p>
<p>I don’t know how all of that makes sense, but I’d prefer to have it harder than easier. And besides, we already have an assessment test, the ACT. The SAT is fine as an aptitude test. </p>
<p>@Princess563 Why don’t you just take both the old and the new test? That’s what I’m going to do if I am allowed to. Unless your school doesn’t allow that.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t have much of an opinion on the SAT change but I wonder what someone who is low income would have to say about this. I mean really low income, not just middle class.</p>
<p>@Princess563 I will be taking the ACTs this February merely because I do not want to take a revised test. If I take the SATs, junior year I will be taking a ‘different’ test to the one senior year. </p>
<p>I do think the the SAT is merely competing with ACT. They are, obviously, two companies that want teenagers’ money. I also believe that if you set the bar lower, hispanics will still below women and women will be below the the “normal” person. The bar of “average” will just be set lower.</p>
<p>I don’t even want to deal with studying for two different tests. ACTs are the way for me!</p>