@SirSly An A- isn’t bad for tests/an exam. My chemistry tests have been in the B range, and I barely got a B- on my midterm. Your Algebra and English classes sound so much more fun than mine.
On another note, has anyone else read Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales for English?
@topaz1116 yep I have 2 free prep periods to destress and work if I need to
and lol I don’t have too many good, time-consuming ECs
at the same time, it feels as if my school has a little more grade inflation than yours
@sallystephens My school doesn’t rank, but I got bumped up to an A for English, which gives me a 4.0 unweighted GPA this semester 
I don’t know if my report card grades are weighted or not…
Grades can’t be weighted, that’s GPA.
Term isn’t over yet 
@mrnephew My bad, thanks for catching that error.
@SallyStephens Our class rank is on our transcript so I’d have to get my transcript to know my class rank.
My school doesn’t rank or do weighted GPA, either. Apparently they used to, but they stopped due to student stress levels or something. However, I think they tell you if you’re in the top 15% junior year (even though they use UW GPA for that, so it’s not entirely accurate).
@Cornbread1999 Me neither, my school’s EC’s aren’t that good. I’m in track, so I have practice everyday, but the clubs I’m in we meet for maybe once a month, so everyone joins as many clubs as possible.
lol, actually I meant that my own EC’s were not that good, but the school offers a lot of good EC’s, none of which fit into my schedule
@SirSly Same here! I’m in like eight clubs and they rarely meet, so it’s not a big time cruncher. Competition season is starting for the academic team and Mu Alpha Theta, though.
I have like, 1 competition coming up, and that’s TSA TEAMS in February
I watched my school’s Academic Team compete once. I have no idea how anyone could answer such random trivia questions (the only one I got right in my head was the capital of Jamaica, which I only knew because I played Assassin’s Creed 4).
I competed for districts in my DECA Club. Not sure if I want to compete at the state level though, because marketing isn’t really my thing.
Competition season is coming up for Winterguard, which means three competitions in February and two in March; basically, all my Saturdays are going to be filled up (also, it means practice until 6:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays so we can learn our stuff). It’s why I couldn’t do Science Olympiad (which I realllyyy wanted to do, but I’d rather do Winterguard).
My math textbook overly complicates absurdly simple concepts. Ughh. I just spent 10 minutes trying to understand a concept, and when I finally figured out what they were trying to do, I realized it was literally just finding the component of a triangle, when they decided to use projections and stuff to solve the problem.
I swear I hate our textbook. It’s really, really bad at explaining stuff. And it makes you use overcomplicated formulas to solve easy stuff.
@topaz1116 That’s why I’m glad my Algebra teacher doesn’t use the textbook. I hate learning by the book, because what’s the point of a teacher if you have to learn from a textbook?
In fact, the only teacher that assigns us textbook pages is my Government teacher. I like learning about the government and politics, but reading concepts from textbooks makes me hate the class.
@SirSly our teacher does teach to some extent, but he’s really quiet and hard to hear at times; and his class is mostly a free period, so I prefer to learn stuff at home. He’s not the best teacher anyhow, although he’s super, super nice. For the most part, I already know the stuff we’re learning (precalculus is just a review, after all), but right now we’re working on vectors and some new stuff. So I’m looking at the textbook to learn how to solve some problems, and they’re super-complicated. (also: physics in precalc? um, I’m signing up for physics next year. and the stupid juniors who are already taking physics already know everything we’re learning -_-.) The problems are a lot easier than they seem, too. The textbook uses six steps to solve a two-step problem.