I have to take the STAR Bio tomorrow for some stupid reason.
@Cornbread1999 we usually only have multiple choice and problems.
It’s on reaction energy and kinetics; ordinarily, it’s an easy subject, but our teacher uses stuff from the nonhonors textbook that isn’t in ours (it’s a little counterintuitive)…
Also, fill-in-the-blanks means I have to study because I have to remember the information. Usually, I don’t study at all and manage to pull high grades on his tests. This time, however, I need 100%.
We took it on Thursday and Friday last week, and it was the easiest thing ever. I finished each half in under ten minutes (with most of the time taken bubbling in stuff). Even the kids who came to our class from CP Bio (since they’re in a class with freshmen, they have to take the test in our class) finished way before the time limit.
@topaz1116 I wish my chemistry teachers’ tests were mostly multiple choice/fill in the blanks and problems. Instead, it’s mostly essays/problems and if there are multiple choice questions, each question is worth like 3 points. For example had a 60 point test. There were ten multiple choice questions that were three points each, and a few short answer/problem questions that were a total of thirty points.
@topaz1116 we only have 1 day for it
actually, we had our reaction energy, thermodynamics and kinetics test 4 weeks ago. We’re on acids, bases and equilibrium now.
@Faultystart ah. Our tests are 100 points, and are generally the parts of our grade that raise it. My teacher is extremely anal with his grading on homework and labs, so they lower your grade. A lot (actually, another one of the reasons I need a 100 is because I did badly on a lab).
@Cornbread1999 lucky. Our teacher made us sit in our seats and do nothing for the rest of the period each day. It was horrible. I think the longest it took anyone to do each section was twenty minutes, though (this includes the kids who are still taking bio).
@topaz1116 We just took our chem test on chap 17 and 18(Thermochemistry, reaction energy, equilibrium, etc)
Our tests are usually on 3 chapters each(this last one was an exception) and they’re half multiple choice(but half of the multiple choice are basically free response problems) and half free response problems.
We took the CST for Life Science today. It was okay I guess. I haven’t taken Biology yet so I didn’t know some of the questions and I just guessed. I regret taking Chem 9th grade and AP Chem this year. I should’ve done AP Bio this year. I wanted to but the counselor said I couldn’t.
Monday is the AP Chem exam (the very first AP exam of the year) and I’m not ready at all.
Oh dear. I have a physics test tomorrow, but I just don’t get the material. Instead of teaching the chapter, my teacher sent us links to different websites (our textbook doesn’t talk about something) but all of the websites were either blank or worked examples and no one even knows what we’re supposed to be learning and she just posted a practice test with solutions and all of the questions were over the material we were supposed to learn outside of class, whatever that is, but in completely different applications and I’m so confused even about the material our textbook covered… And of course I’m pretty sure that nothing like this is actually on the AP. I usually appreciate the rigor, but not right now. Really not right now.
Apparently everybody thought the chem test was really hard. I didn’t think it was very hard, but I don’t think I got 100–the teacher is bound to mark me off for word choice on one fill-in-the blank or another. There were also some extremely ambiguous question (for example, for a multiple choice question–temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of an object, not the total amount of energy… right? I put down enthalpy (although I knew it wasn’t correct, since enthalpy is only measured in changes) because of that–the other options were Joule and heat; but I now think it was temperature).
Ugh. I hate ambiguous questions.
@topaz1116 I’m pretty sure temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of an object. And yeah, ambiguous questions are the worst.
(A brief moment of thanks for this thread-- it’s nice to hear how you all are and to have a place to vent occasionally! 
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I have a really long review for the AP Gov test due a week from today. I’m done but I’m pretty nervous for the test. We have to take it in the auditorium with whiteboards to write 4 FRQs 
I have held a consistent 98 all year in the class and got a 100 on the midterm, but I’m still pretty worried for the actual thing.
@topaz1116 isn’t the total amount of energy called heat or heat content or something?
whenever there is an ambiguous question, my teacher throws it off of the grading.
I’m going to forget to say this later, so I’m saying it now: everyone taking an AP, I wish you all good luck on the AP test!
I have apes this upcoming Monday (I started studying for that) and apush on Friday (have not started studying yet and I need to start now). I’m really nervous and I don’t think I’ll do well. I know close to nothing in apush because our class is a blowoff so that’s not good lol. Good luck to you all
I have APES on monday too… I did a couple practice questions and I’m really not sure. I think the math portion of the FRQ is going to throw me off.
It’s a requirement at my school district to do a speech in sophomore year so I have to brainstorm on topics soon. It can be about anything so I might just talk about video games.
AP Chemistry looks so scary. A lot of my friends are taking it and all they do now is take practice exams. It sounds a bit interesting, but I’m not really looking forward to taking it next year, especially since science is one of my least favorite subjects.