I can’t wait for the weekend! :(( I’ve been losing so much sleep so I’m really looking forward to the three-day weekend! My family is going to SoCal and most of my homework will consist of reviewing for APUSH so I won’t really have to worry about school too much for once.
@bbbaaa784 The long classes of block schedules are a double-edged sword for me. It gives me a lot of time to study a subject and it makes the day feel a lot shorter since you have less classes, but at the same time the day can feel so long if you’re in a class you don’t like (I’m looking at you, Honors Pre-Calculus).
@athenanv13 dude story of my life… I sleep 3-5 hours as well, because I have so much homework (activities take up some time too). I can’t complain to anyone though because it’ll get annoying and people will think that I think I’m cool for sleeping so little or something. Also I have to try my best to stay energetic because tired, sleepy people are no fun to others.
@imbep49 I think it’s ridiculous when teachers assign so much homework. They should understand that students have extracurriculars and that 50% of the homework they assign isn’t even useful, it’s just busy work. The best teachers I’ve had assigned little to no homework, or assigned a lot of homework that actually improved my learning.
@imbep49 I’m soo grateful for my parents. They understand how much work I have to do, so they don’t get angry if they come into my room and I’m up studying or working. I know people who have a certain time that their parents /make them/ go to bed, and if they don’t, they get in trouble. I’d be so ridiculously stressed out if I had to follow a rule like that.
@Bozusaki You are so so so so lucky! I’m always getting in trouble by my mom for not getting enough sleep. She just doesn’t understand how much homework I have! I have to get 3-5 hours of sleep because of all my extracurriculars and homework!
That’s why I like my calculus teacher. He understands that we have lives. He did research and found out that excessive homework is not helpful. Therefore, he doesn’t assign more than 30 minutes of homework at night and I don’t have homework on the weekends. And I’m actually doing well on his tests! So far I’m getting high A’s and even some 100%! Wish that mentality would go to all my other teachers. With their homework, I have 4-6 hours of mostly busy work a night…
@ZBlue17 Our was on limits too! Im in BC as well and it was ch 1 for us. I am really scared as to if I will end up with an A or not. What ch are you on now? We started derivatives and have a quiz friday
Is anyone in NHS or going to be in NHS this year? I don’t really understand the point of it, seeing as it kind of is another volunteering club with some fun rewards attached. I’m already in CSF, which is a volunteering club in California, so I don’t know whether I should join NHS.
Wow! I can’t believe most people are in calculus already as juniors. At my school only about 5 juniors will take calculus, out of around 450. I’m in precalculus this year, so I’ll be taking calculus next year.
At my school, about 5 freshmen take calculus. As one of them, I’ll admit that I got 60s on my first test for both AB and BC, but I worked hard and ended up with As in both courses. Don’t fret.
Although, not quite sure why how your BC courses start out at limits and manage to get through everything…
Just took the derivatives test a week ago…eh now I’m on the concavity, related rates, and optimization. I’m scared. I’m really bad at optimization.
@Frigidcold At my school, we finish everything there is to learn for Calc BC around March so that we have all of april to review. We go really, really fast so we are able to start at limits. My teacher divides each test into two portion so that we can be more efficient where one part is a timed, inclass one and another part is a take-home test.
I failed a group quiz in AP Calc BC last week. It was a pop quiz, we have a bunch of pop quizzes in that class. My group just assumed I had all the right answers for a bunch of them and put my paper at the top (the one at the top gets graded). But I actually made a bunch of mistakes, which caused us to fail. But I did relatively well on all the other quizzes we’ve taken so far in that class. We’re learning about taking the derivative and antiderivative of natural logs and stuff like that. Tomorrow’s the test.
@athenanv13 Well, most AP courses stop teaching new material around March, but I can’t imagine my BC course going any faster. Probably largely due to the teacher who ran it like a intro “weed-out” college course. So glad that Multivariable is a chill, self-study course.
@Frigidcold Really? I guess I was left in the dark. I just thought my calculus teacher went really fast finishing in March because at my school, most of the aps are taught right up to the exam and sometimes teachers don’t finish the textbooks. Still, a majority of people get 5’s. I wish the ap’s at my school finished around march just like my calc teacher does so that we can spend april reviewing…sigh. By the way, how is multivariable calc? My math teacher is trying to get me to double up on math by taking Multivarible Calc and IB Math HL at the same time for senior year.
@tigerman333 yea we started derivatives as well, and have our first quiz today on the first couple sections of it! Hoping to get an A on this bc I have a 72% in the class and it makes me want to cry :((
