<p>Highs and lows here today. </p>
<p>Good news is there are no AP exams today, though APUSH looms tomorrow. </p>
<p>Bad news is ds’s sports season has come to a premature end thanks to the opposing team forfeiting the last game. The swine flu put everything on hold, and now that games are back on, the other team didn’t want to resume play. I feel bad for the seniors who don’t get to close out their varsity careers.</p>
<p>S took the Calc BC test yesterday, and sounded pretty ambivalent about how he did. He said that there was an FRQ on something they had never learned in class (?!), but he thinks he might have made a 4. We’'ll see…</p>
<p>LIMOM – I wish my S were as interested in doing some APUSH review tonight as your D is. I think he is just really burned out and “done”. I think all these poor kids may collapse from exhaustion late next week!</p>
<p>BengalMom, you should check out the thread where the kids talked about the test. It’s a riot. Oh, and don’t be thrown by the fact it’s a revival of a 2005 thread.</p>
<p>S2 is home with the AP flu today. He’s here next to grumbling his disagreements with the text book.</p>
<p>Which test, mathmom?</p>
<p>^
apush .</p>
<p>I like that he disagrees with the textbook. :)</p>
<p>Anybody taking any AP exams today? Like most of your kids, D is taking APUSH tomorrow. And yes, all of a sudden, she’s decided that she needs to study! I wish she’d been this motivated before the SAT II! I think her friends are scaring her because they’re all taking days off to study, and meanwhile, she’s the one who’s got the least amount of free time after school. She didn’t get home from school until 10:00 last night!</p>
<p>She’s also starting to get worried about the Physics AP on Monday.</p>
<p>I WISH ds would start worrying about physics. He’s done nothing in that regard, and it sounds like the teacher hasn’t done any review and instead is still introducing material. And ds had to miss the class yesterday because of the BC cal exam. He’s spent a lot of time, however, on APUSH. Tonight will be the sixth and fnal study session for that one.</p>
<p>Hey, when and how do kids get their results anyway? Ds said he has no idea.</p>
<p>YDS–they don’t get the results until summer! I think it was sometime in July.
They come by mail, but there’s an option (of course) where you can pay $8 and get results by phone.</p>
<p>$8 per test or per kid. And how much earlier?</p>
<p>I am glad S took only AP Stat this year. I don’t think I could take another seance, where H is telling S that he is not ready, and S replying that he is.
We are still working on a college list. The NMS deadline is approaching, and S still don’t know what two schools to list.
He said his classmates are very edgy these days. The pressure has moved from seniors to juniors. Even S, who is usually nonchalant, joined a SAT math2 tutoring class.</p>
<p>They mail you the AP results. I think D got them in early summer last year. Checked CB, it says they’ll be sent mid-July.</p>
<p>While I was on CB, I checked the dates that SATs and SAT IIs will be available, and it said May 21st. I could have sworn that it said May 19th the other day. :/</p>
<p>For some weird reason, my D seems more relaxed than usual. I think she had a lot of pressure on her last month - competitions and auditions, in addition to sports, schoolwork, and her other ECs - all of which are very time-consuming. Anyway, the stress level in our house has actually decreased - even with SAT IIs last Saturday and 4 AP exams. She still has the SAT and ACT retakes to look forward to in June - but I don’t think she’s given them any thought yet.</p>
<p>IloveLA is correct on timing for AP results. Remember, these aren’t machine graded. Throngs of teachers gather in groups across the country and grade the AP exams.</p>
<p>Last year I ponied up the $8 for the results by phone because it turned out that S was going to be incommunicado on a backing packing trip when the mail results were to be delivered. He took three of them last year and worked hard so I figured he earned that.</p>
<p>$8 for results on however many AP test were taken.</p>
<p>Hmm, I’ve always seen the May 21 as the date for the May SAT results.</p>
<p>Oh, the stress lowering in our house begins in May, when H is done a USC. It follows in June, when S is out of school. July and August and the livin’ is easy, calm, no waves.</p>
<p>Grrr. My labradoodle keeps playing with the tennis ball, then shoves it under the file cabinet like it’s a game and expects me to keep getting it out for her.</p>
<p>Another kid home with the AP flu here! APUSH tomorrow and we’ve only gotten to the beginning of the Cold War in my honors U.S. History class, so today I need to teach myself everything I need to know about the 60s-90s while also reviewing all the other stuff while also practicing essays. Oh dear…</p>
<p>teenage cliche, you’ve come to the right place. Anything you need to know about the 60’s through the 90’s is right up our alley.</p>
<p>–now get off the computer, and get back to work :)</p>
<p>We paid the $8 for my son because he was headed off to a mid-summer orientation and having the results let him know which classes he could get AP credit for before he registered.</p>
<p>We paid the $8 as well for my son as we were traveling to yet another baseball event when the scores were coming out. If I were home, I would not bother as it only saved a day or two from when they arrived in the mail.</p>
<p>DD has not heard of the AP flu and is grumbling off to school as I type.</p>
<p>Of course, here in CA, we are doing the standardized testing this week - and as an added incentive to trying hard, various teachers are offering extra credit for doing well. As an example, if you get the highest grade possible on the Science section, the teacher will move your grade in the class up 4% points and retroactively adjust your final grade appropriately. As DD is borderline B+/A-, hovering between 89 and 90% in science, this could be a big difference. </p>
<p>In the past, students would blow off the tests and study for the AP exams instead - of course greatly lowering the overall school results as only the brightest kids were missing the tests.</p>