Hello! So nice to find this forum~
@spiral7 It really depends for me, but I know my math class is graded exactly like that.
My county decided to change our 7 point scale to a 10 point scale, which I’m so happy about.
I’m really nervous about math and chem… My chem teacher uses a points-based system, and right now I’m 3 points away from an 89.5 (which is an A; I have an 89.3 right now); I have 1009 points out of 1130. I actually don’t know anyone with an A in that class. Even if I had gotten 100% on all the tests, I’d only have a 93.8% in the class (and almost everyone has the same number of points in assignments; some have less, but almost none have more).
Math I’m kind of trying-but-not-really-trying in; I’m basically depending on the final to raise my grade to an 86% (an A- with the curve that will be imposed on our class; at one point I had a 94% in the class, but it’s dropped dramatically since then due to dumb mistakes).
@Bri2017 Are you in NC? Same here.
@thatasiankid Yup!
@Bri2017 Oh cool! I am a bit upset about how they are now listing our percentages on our transcripts though so now I can’t get away with borderline As haha.
Just came back home after bowling tournament. I’ve never had a swim meet as loud as that tournament. It was six hours long.
@Faultystart our Marching Band things can be, like, eight hours long (and for some longer, depending on how far away it is). 'Tis terrible. We start getting ready, we go there, we finish getting ready, we practice, we perform, we eat, we wait, we go back.
@topaz1116 Lucky. My dance competitions are from Friday night all the way to Sunday night. I have to stay in a hotel the whole weekend.
@topaz1116 Some of my swim meets used to be days long, like there was one which was Thursday night, Friday night (like. 3-9) and all day Saturday and Sunday (6-12, 3-9).
My precalc class is 90% tests and 10% homework and pop quizzes -.-
Midterms not next week but the week after -.-
(that means next week, teacher will cram as many tests as possible)
ACTs on Feb 7th
Science Olympiad meet at MIT in two weeks
Math team meet in a few more weeks
A diagnostic test in a few weeks
My life is hell.
Rate my schedule for next year and senior year plzz:
2015-16
Analysis H
World Classics Honors/Classical Mythology (2 semesters)
AP Stat
AP CompSci
AP Spanish Language
AP Chem
US History (not AP, I’m not into history)
2016-17
AP BC Calc
AP Biology
AP Physics (idk about 2 sciences though)
AP Econ (both macro and micro in 1 class)
AP English Lit
Stressful T.T
this is preliminary; my school is debating on whether or not to impose a cap on allowed AP classes per student
@iamnotironman that’s annoying. When I did dance (albeit a different form than you, probably, since it was Bollywood), our competitions lasted the whole day (like 12pm to 11pm), but not as long as yours.
@Faultystart I think for our longest band review, we had to be at school at 6:45 AM and we got back around 6:30 PM.
I think we’re going to have one Friday night show for Winterguard this year… I’m not sure how the logistics of that one work, but I may have to miss our biggest MUN conference (again) because of it. Ughh. I also have an NHD competition on the same day as another Winterguard competition, but apparently our guard goes in the afternoon (NHD would be more in the morning) because all the Percussion compeititions are first, then middle school guards, then novice guards, then us (or maybe we’ll be after another division–we might be moved up one because we’ve been doing really well lately). But the logistics of my ECs are a nightmare.
@Cornbread1999 Your schedule looks fine. I can’t be sure about your academic rigor, since it depends on teachers.
@Cornbread1999 give yourself a class to relax in (AKA not an AP class) senior year. I’m assuming the rigor of your high school is similar to that of mine, and with ECs, your schedule senior year would be really, really difficult to manage.
Hey guys, fellow '17er here. 
What do you guys think of my schedule for next year? I attend an IB School, but if I move then I’ll be taking AP classes.
IB Program
- IB English HL
- IB History HL
- IB Environmental SL
- Probability/Statistics & Trig
- IB Spanish SL
- IB Psychology SL
- Creative Writing
- Theory of Knowledge (after-school on Wednesdays)
AP Program
- AP English Lang
- AP US History
- AP Chemistry
- Precalculus & Trig HN
- AP World History
- Law in Action/Current Affairs
- Creative Writing
If I stay in the same school, I would be doing the IB Diploma and would have to take 3 HL and 3 SL. My HL would be English, History, and Psychology (SL junior year but HL senior year). My SL would be Environmental, Spanish, and Math Studies senior year. Obviously, I’m more of a liberal artsy person than math/science guy.
If I move to the AP school, then it’ll probably be more easier, yeah, since I wouldn’t need to do an EE or CAS hours.
So has everyone gotten their semester class ranks for sophomore year?
@SallyStephens my school doesn’t do class rank ;(
We never get to find out…
aww!!
@SallyStephens My semester just ended on Friday. We don’t get much for class ranks anyway. But, I know I got honor roll!
@SirSly I don’t know how hard the IB program is, but your schedule seems fine, if IB is comparable to AP. But like I’ve been saying a lot, rigor depends from teacher to teacher, so asking people who’ve taken those courses is a good idea to get a feel of how hard a class is.
I don’t think my school ranks our students either.
That being said, first semester ends on January 29th for me, so I don’t take midterms until the last week of the month.
My Algebra Honors teacher said he won’t give us a midterm, thank god. And for English, our midterm is a project in which we write a monologue about war (we’re reading All Quiet on the Western Front).
I’m dreading my Econ midterm though, because the class is super hard (I wouldn’t even be taking it if my county didn’t require it). I always get an A minus on the exams. The worst part is that it’s a regular class, not AP or anything. It irks me to think how people can take AP Macro/microeconomics.