It’s great! I’m been using the final grade calculator to boost my confidence. But lol, I’ve been studying my butt off anyway (Need a 35% to lose my A in French (have a 95), a 45% to lose my A in Math (have a 100.41), and a 29% to lose my A in Chem(Have 100.21)). The others I’ve already taken were a bliss (got A’s on all of them). My finals are exactly like the study guide except with different questions, I’m so lucky!
Good luck to everyone on finals!
@1LuckyBrave I don’t know how the dorms are, but mine is at a University. Can’t wait either!
I have benchmarks at the end of each quarter instead of finals, so I’m good in that way. My benchmarks are coming up really soon, but I’m not worried because for Chem, at least, my teacher gives us a set of about 200 questions that she’ll select the final 50 from. So we will have experience with every benchmark question. The others just hand out a study guide which covers everything on the test.
Anyone else memorizing the VSEPR chart for Chem? :-h :(( :((
@1LuckyBrave Yep, Ew, VESPR :(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :((
@athenanv13 @1LuckyBrave We actually did that a while ago, but we weren’t required to “memorize it”- just to become familiar. The chart is tough though, so good luck!
@1LuckyBrave haha I love VESPR, don’t know why. I didn’t need to memorize it this year but I will for AP Chem next year!
@iamnotironman Are you sure? Took AP Chem this year and we touched on it once very quickly, never really memorized it. 1 question on it on the AP exam though, luckily I remembered the angle values by some miracle.
@1LuckyBrave Finals starts Tuesday. Very nervous for chemistry and math.
@athenanv13 @bbbaaa784 Wait…you guys get study guides? I’m very jealous. Very jealous. The most I get is a handout that says, “we’re covering these topics on the exam. Good luck!”
@Faultystart @athenanv13 @iamnotironman @bbbaaa784
I will DIE if my final only has one question regarding the VSEPR chart.
@Faultystart Is that not what a study guide is?
@1LuckyBrave They’re pretty much geometric shapes, surely you can guess. The thing I still don’t understand even though I’ve finished AP Chem is hybrid orbitals (sp, sp2, sp3).
Wow 50 or 60 valedictorian is a ton. We have about 250 kids per grade and there’s 1 val and 1 sal. Our s cnn lol is kind of weird lol. We use unweighted gpa to determine valedictorian and salutorian but we take the final weighted average on report cards.
Anybody going to visit colleges this summer?
@Frigidcold Well, my ‘study guides’ have been under the broad gesture of oh, study everything from this semester/these chapters. I probably should have said something among the lines of “oh, you guys get questions with your study guides? I don’t.” At my school, study guide has always really referred to a packet which contains sample questions/problems or the actual facts which you need to study (like, this is what cellular respiration is, etc). And besides, only two of the classes I’m taking this year even give out what I mentioned (the lists of what we need to know)
@1LuckyBrave I’m just so thankful that my chem teacher will provide us with a VSEPR chart if we need to use it on our final. But knowing her, she’ll give us a ton of extra information that we don’t even need.
I’m still upset I placed 6th in a local chemistry exam. I only missed 6 questions–the highest score was a 56 and I had a 54. The top five got 100-200 dollars each. 
I was so close!
Since their are so many valedictorians at my school, they have try-outs for speeches. 3 get chosen to say their speeches throughout the ceremony and 1 other says to move your tassel.
@Frigidcold when we went over it my teacher, who teaches AP chem, gave us the chart and told us we’d need to memorize it if we took AP chem, but it could just be her teaching preference or something lol
Also my school has 1 val and it’s decided really fairly- weighted gpa
Hi guys 
I just have a quick question:
During my freshman year, I had a SPA of 3.97 (one A-) for both semesters but, this year, my school changed it’s grade system (1-7; 7 being the highest) and it completely changed my game. I now have a GPA of about 6.3 (only a few 7s-- the rest are high 6s but colleges can’t see that). I’m super worried this ruins my chances for my dream colleges… I have a few awards and such but I know that GPA is VERY important… Should I think about lowering my dream colleges or just keep going? I understand that IB GPAs are more important but…
@jiwonc My school does numerical QPA, as in, they will report the full numbers to the colleges. It’s my understanding that colleges will just convert it to a standard GPA scale.
@Frigidcold do you, by any chance, how I could convert my current GPA into the standard GPA scale? I’m just soo nervous
would 3.97 --> 3.78 be too great a drop??
@jiwonc You have the raw numbers right? Just use a gpa calc through google.