that’s all we were talking about this afternoon
@Cornbread1999 Lol, my P.E. teacher administered the CAHSEE when I did it, and she was so strict no one would dare to snooze during the test.
@dsi411 I remember that math problem! At first I couldn’t figure it out, but then it became clear, and I was so confident in my answer. Then four hours later, I realized I made a miscalculation and put down the wrong answer. I got so mad after that.
During the CAHSEE I was in the gym with 300 other kids. The other 600 sophomores were in various rooms around campus. Being in the gym was so boring. And for some reason I couldn’t focus on reading my book, maybe I was tired or something.
@SallyStephens Just PM’ed you!
@topaz1116 at my school, its a bit of a crapshoot for AP Chem teachers, you either get a really good teacher who gives out a lot of B’s and C’s but the average score on the test is a 5, or you get a new AP Chem teacher who curves her tests and makes them really easy, and gives out boatloads of A’s. Not sure how her students score on the test though.
@sprights there’s only one AP Chem teacher (5-6 periods) at my school since most people are too afraid to take it and only end up taking Bio and Physics. She’s really hard, and there are generally 4-5 As per class second semester (more first semester). She’s a really good teacher, though. For AP Physics, apparently it’s “really easy to get a B, but really hard to get an A or a C.” As in, 3-4 As per class again. Your AP Bio grade depends on your teacher–and you’re more likely to get the absurdly hard teacher who gives out 3-4 As than the easy teacher (and both of the AP Bio teachers are horrible anyhow; this is why I will never take AP Bio). APES is also absurdly hard.
@topaz1116 that’s pretty interesting, apes is considered as one of the easier APs! I’m in it right now, I don’t find it hard, although my teachers tests vary in difficulty, sometimes they have material from other chapters. I think it’s a really nice class, educationally and socially, it had opened my eyes a bit wider to the world. 
@sprights Originally, I had planned to take APES, but pretty much nobody gets an A (as in, one girl, who ended up getting into Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Yale, begged the teacher for three weeks to raise her grade up to an A from an 89.3 because otherwise she had a 4.0; this girl is also one who took three AP sciences (Bio, Physics B, and Chem) in a year with APUSH and Honors English and self-studied Calc BC her freshman year and got a 5 on the test).
APES - AP environmental science? Your school is different from basically every other school I know… APES is AP lite everywhere else.
Yep. It’s really, really hard at my school. The teacher also teaches freshman Honors Bio, but her APES class is a whole new level of difficult… Apparently you have to be incredible at memorization to pass.
That’s interesting… APES at our school is the fallback class.
I wish it were that at my school. Then I’d be able to take two sciences senior year as well; however, with AP Lit, Multivar, and AP Physics C (all three of which give an absurd amount of work, especially lit) and the fact that I want a life (as in, I want to do guard and perhaps theater without it affecting my grades) senior year, I can’t.
Yeah, APES is the fallback class at our school too! Hopefully my grade in my class reflects in my AP score though.
at my school, any non-STEM AP class (except for APUSH) is a fallback class lol
Then your school’s got something wack going, don’t know what to tell ya. 
if euro is a fallback… Whew.
Out of curiosity, I’d like to know which of these courses sounds more interesting to you all:
IB SL World Religions
IB SL Psychology
I’m gonna take one of these instead of a second science.
World religions!
Just skimmed this thread a little bit, and many of you have things going for yourselves :). I am a transfering college student (c/o 2012) and I can’t imagine myself juggling so many activities and advanced classes like you guys do. And I personally struggled in general chemistry (same as ap chemistry really) so some of you may be even more academically advanced than me.
Best of luck!
My advice: note that you may change a lot from 13-17, but that you’ll change even more from 17-21.
And also, don’t be so dramatic. Don’t wail that your parents will “kill you” when you don’t do so well on SAT prep.
I did not bother to look at all of the 270 pages in this thread but was wondering what courses are you all taking next year (JR year class of 2017)? What is your dream job? What are you doing right now to get there? How stressed out are you guys ;D?
My parents do that. ^^
@mrnephew my school doesn’t offer ap euro