I don’t if it’s just me, but many people are taking the ACT rather than the SAT. I’m planning to take my SAT in November, and from the practice tests after I’ve taken, the reading section kills me. Math is my strong subject, but I freak out when I encounter a tricky question. Writing is something I don’t need to worry about. Anyone else have this problem?
I’m so glad the psat and the act is right after fall break for me. It take the ACT the saturday after fall break and the psat the following wednesday after the act. Thank goodness that the new psat is like the material on the ACT! So I get a week of last minute hard-core studying. 
So much anxiety over grades. It’s the beginning to the year and i’m doing really bad in IB English (from the oral presentation that I bombed as a result of getting super nervous from my product breaking) so I have a borderline A projected to drop (going have to work my butt off to get it higher), a low A in history because I missed the last page of a test (the stupidest mistake I’ve ever done but I guess that is what happens when you get 3 hours of sleep) but I usually set curves so that was super embarrassing to get a C on that one test, and a borderline A in Catering (don’t know how that happened, I thought it would be easy and I took it as a class I could sleep in and be an officer for FCCLA (a family and consumer science club even though I joined it because of my friends). I’m scared in Physics because after a month of a substitute (my teacher pulled his hamstring and was out for a month), I don’t understand anything.
I’m super scared for a biology test and AP Calc BC test I have on Thursday. If I do bad on Biology, I’ll never forgive myself for a month because that will be the only grade in the gradebook but I didn’t study yet due to lack of time.
On the bright side, the HOSA chapter I’m starting is going well. I finally found an advisor! The problem is the time that we can do HOSA conflicts with my officer meetings with FCCLA. The problem with being Vice President of French National Honor Society is that you have to write minutes for each meeting and guess what, I haven’t done any! Whoopsies… UNESCO (United Nations club) is way too time consuming. I love it, but it’s a huge time commitment. I don’t get home until 7 each weeknight except Friday, because of all these clubs. No wonder I’m getting 3 hours of sleep a night.
Yay! I found out that my school is offering a mock SAT in a few weeks. I really need to take it since I’ve been putting SAT prep on the back burner since the beginning of school. Now that my grades are improving I can finally focus more time for the test in December.
P.S. I can handle it, it’s not overexhausting as I make it sound, it’s completely manageable. I just use CC to complain.
@AnniiT I’m not taking my SAT/ACT until spring. I plan on taking both just for the hell of it, but I MUCH prefer the ACT to the SAT, both new and old format. I do think that the ACT is becoming more popular, although most students probably still prefer the SAT.
I was told to take the new SAT and ACT in the spring, and if I feel I want to take one of them again, do it in fall senior year.
I have no clue how I’m going to prepare for standardized test when I barely have time for anything other than schoolwork
I’m totally feeling the homework crunch-- there’s way too much to do and so little time in which to do it.
By the way guys, what are you using to study for the PSAT vocab?
@Greninja I’m just using the Princeton Review SAT Power Vocab book that I bought before I knew the SAT would change… I haven’t done much though.
@Bozusaki More students take the ACT now than the SAT, which is why the SAT is making such big changes. It would seem that the SAT is a bit more popular on the coasts.
@Greninja All of the vocab questions are in the context of a passage now, and the words aren’t that difficult. I think you’ll be alright.
Ughhh. I have my first APUSH test tomorrow? Anybody have any study tips?
@Greninja No need to study vocab for the new PSAT. Unless you really want to.
Ick. 1940 on an SAT practice test. 620 on the writing, which really surprised me. Anyone have any good tips to increase my writing score? 
I ended up with an 80 on my first ap bio test which I’m pretty bummed out about. The test was pretty much all paragraph response and that caught me off guard but I was so sure I had a really good grasp on the material and that I had done well. Any advice on doing well in ap bio?
I have my second calc test tomorrow I’m so screed. Also had my first APUSH test today. Those things are HARD
Had my first AP Chem test today. It was just on the material we did over the summer, but she surprisingly didn’t make it that hard and I feel confident I did well which is good especially because I was so scared for that test. However, I am on like hour 5 of writing up my lab report for AP Chem. These things are time consuming!
Starting to get really swamped. APUSH and AP Bio require ridiculous amounts of textbook reading, and I have never been a good note taker. Readings are really, really time-consuming.
Tomorrow I have a unit test in AP Bio, complete with the FRQ and MC portions. I’m really nervous, since my grade is hovering between an A and A-, and so I need to do well on it in order to keep my grade in that area and not drop it to a B.
Does anyone miss his/her past classes and teachers? I still visit my math teacher from last year, and I really miss the curriculum and being in his class. He was really friendly and went out of his way to make sure we students understood the material. My math teacher this year leaves us to figure out the lesson ourselves, sometimes employing one exceptional student to teach us instead. xp