AP Biology has been a nightmare so far. I got 65% on my practice FRQs and 67% on my quiz today. 
Bio is so confusing for me, which doesn’t make sense at all, since I want to major in neuroscience.
@photogeek8 Same man. I really like learning about bio/the material but on the tests and pop quizzes (we have 1-2 every day which makes me dread going to class honestly) so far, I haven’t been doing that great.
36 ACT, glad I got that over with. 
@Frigidcold WOW! So you’re done with testing for colleges apps next fall? What do you recommend for the rest of us? I’m going to take the new SAT and the act
Does anyone else feel like we’re maturing too quickly? I honestly can’t believe that as a junior, I’m searching for an internship, trying to come up with a research project, entering a bunch of prestigious writing competitions, etc. I feel like these are all what a college student should be doing.
@photogeek8 Of course, makes me jealous of classmates who haven’t done anything of the sort and aren’t thinking about college yet. I’ve read some papers by sociologists and psychologists claiming that society would be better off if we did not “select for success” so early on.
@ZBlue17 Just have PSAT in October. Took one of those free diagnostics held by PR the Sunday after the ACT (talk about a terrible weekend) and got a perfect score, so not too worried. Then again, one of my friends who I was sure would qualify somehow ended up bombing the math section even though he was in Calc one million and one.
As for any advice, my biggest thing is to not be worried because I’m one of those people who will have the sniffles and will bother everyone if I am worried for a test. 
So yeah, it’s just a test. As for study regiment, gave myself 3 months, since the beginning of summer, and usually did 1 section a day. Did each section until I was getting 36 consistently, then did a few full timed practice tests 2 weeks before the “day of reckoning”. Read sample essays for writing, both from practice books and random ACT threads here on CC. I’m sure you’ll all do great, you bunch of geniuses.
Hi fellow juniors! What are you guys doing to prep for the PSAT? Books, resources? I haven’t started prepping besides for a Kaplan in-class (current) SAT a few weeks ago and a couple Khan Academy math questions today. I suck at math. ^^;
I’m using the PR book, Khan Academy, and then the official practice test (online) - how about you guys?
Lol same, my math score is bringing me down a lot…
I’m using Khan Academy and the official practice test that the school gave to us. The new PSAT math is hard for me too even though I find the old SAT math to be pretty easy.
Bombed my first math test of the year for the third year in a row. At this point, I don’t even care anymore.
@Frigidcold What math are you in? You’re probably 500 levels higher than me hahaha. By the way congrats on your 36.
@jjlundy Multivariable Calc. I have such a love-hate relationship with math at this point, haha. Thanks 
@Frigidcold Do you have any tips on getting a high score (33+) on the ACT essay section (the new one)? Some of my problems with it are that I often don’t know what stance to take, I struggle to find examples, I don’t know how to structure the essay, I don’t get how to reference the perspectives. Thanks in advance!
@photogeek8 I haven’t gotten my essay score back yet, but assuming I didn’t do horribly…
What stance you take doesn’t matter, but idealy you choose the one that you have the most evidence to support. For the essay topic on my test day and most of them I could find, following recent news and having basic historical knowledge seems to be a sufficient pool for examples.
Structure I used was:
Introduction of perspectives + thesis
Analysis of perspective one
Analysis of perspective two
Analysis of perspective three (longer than the other two bodies as this is the one I agreed with)
Restate thesis + summarize reasons for the chosen perspective
You can just say “some people think” or “one prospective option is”. They have like 5 minutes per essay, they’re not going to nitpick something like that.
Does anyone have any tips for the Math and CR sections of the SAT? I typically do okay for CR, but I do dreadfully on the math section.
Ugh took a limits test in calc today. 79% Literally, the teacher is probably the worst teacher I ever had. She talks in this monotonous voice and refuses to stay after school when a student needs help. Her notes are awful and do not explain the material at all. Worst of all, I can’t switch to the other calc teacher (the much better one) because she only has calc 5th block and AP bio is only offered 5th block and I don’t want to drop that class. Help! Does anyone have supplemental materials I can use to help me understand calc?
@greeneggsandsam9 have you tried khanacademy?
@greeneggsandsam9 patrick jmt on youtube
@greeneggsandsam9 I agree with the two above. Also, use the Princeton Review Calc BC book
@tigerman333 @iamnotironman @jjlundy Thanks for the tips! We started derivatives today and she did a really good job of explaining it. She is kind of bipolar with her teaching lol