@evergreen5 That’s my daughter, Q1 is always her worst, but as she gets into her groove she finishes strong. She needed that second half of the year. 
Spring Cambridge AICE exams, AS and A level, have been canceled.
My thought for my daughter too. She has worked insanely hard for top marks since our school still ranks and she’s been fighting for every point. P/F would be absolutely awful.
We are closed until at least April 27 now. Ugh…first time I’ve ever heard D say, I’ll be so mad if we don’t get to go back to school this year! LOL
Nail in the coffin of spring break college trips and summer Italy trip. Booooo!!!
On the bright side…S17’s school is making the Pass/No credit thing optional - kids have 7 days to decide what they want to do once grades post at the end of the semester. He’s in the middle of a foreign language class that will most likely sink him…he has forever been terrible at foreign language! That P (fingers crossed!) will save a big ding to the GPA!
Virginia- Completely closed through the rest of this academic year “at least.” We are all waiting to see what the state superintendent says comes next. Is that it? On line? Will grades stand as is at semester or current averages, P/F? So many questions. She had 6 A+ and one A (4 APs) and the thought of the hard work going away is making her so anxious.
I just got an email from DDs Principal asking me to fill out a survey regarding her DE math class. It had 2 questions:
“Are you interested in completing the Dual Enrollment college course if we are able to make arrangements for this to continue in some instructional capacity?”
“Do you have wireless capabilities to access teacher instructional lessons and assessments if the remaining part of the course this year is delivered online?”
Wow! Dear Lord, I pray they can continue the class and get credit!
Do they self study for AP exams at this point?
My daughter is struggling to process everything. She wants alone time, so is on a vampire schedule, staying up until after 3 am (she won’t confess the actual time) and waking up sometime around 2pm. At this point I’m letting her absorb and process as she feels she needs to. So many unknowns and disappointments.
I feel the opposite…I’m slightly terrified things will open up prematurely. The most eminent epidemiologists are saying that things won’t peak until May or June, and we could have serious loss of life and overwhelmed hospitals if the virus rebounds after an apparent hiatus. We simply don’t do enough pro-active testing in this country to know what’s really going on.
There’s some self-study for APs as usual, but while the school is closed until April 27, instruction is ongoing. The past 2 weeks were a trial period - nothing graded. Only AP classes continued with new material; other classes did more review. Now, starting Monday, it’s bad to advancing the curriculum. We don’t have set times - D logs in for attendance, but can access the materials online whenever she wants, as long as assignments are done by the due date/time. Teachers will have “office hours” - 2 - 2 hour blocks daily where kids can login for questions/reviews etc.
I’ve been letting D sleep in also, but next week will probably have her start waking up at a more reasonable hour just to get her in a groove.
CollegeBoard is also running live online AP review sessions, starting tomorrow. No idea as to their quality though…https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/coronavirus-updates
Glad to know about the AP review sessions. D has mostly completed the assignments given to her for the first two weeks of this. Only her English teacher and physics/pre-Calc teacher gave any (but he did pile it on). Oh, and a chapter or two to read in history.
She’s doing Khan Academy math today after my pushing and prodding a bit. Wanted her to do an SAT practice test until I realized we don’t have any. Only her ACT books have practice tests (I don’t think the PWN SAT book she was using has any…or she claims it doesn’t, just practice questions). I think Amazon isn’t shipping books at the moment. So Khan it is. But it would be nice to know if she has improved any since going through the PWN book.
My daughter checked out the YouTube Channel - among the teachers in the videos, two are from her school - both very well regarded. Still not 100% sure how it will translate.
we remain on extended spring break. Online starts next week, it will not be live classes.
Different teachers will use different platforms. Thankfully we started school Aug 6th, Math and Chem they would have finished covering the entire curriculum April 1st. with plans to spend the last 6 weeks on review. So at least that helps give me peace of mind. The Calc BC teacher is making his own videos, not sure about any other teachers.
D plans to watch the college board AP reviews. Don’t know anything more.
I continue to go to work every day. D has the house to herself and sleeps very late, yesterday till 2pm. Don’t know what time she goes to sleep.
Have not heard about the grading, I imagine it will be pass/fell. The first semester grades on in the books. I guess if everyone is on pass/fail it would not affect the rank (we are in Texas).
I continue to go to work every day (healthcare provider) . D has the house to herself and sleeps very late, yesterday till 2pm. Don’t know what time she goes to sleep. This likely will not change as far as I know it will be work in your own time kinda thing.
our school had the SAT day before Spring break so at least the jrs have a score to submit.
Anyway keep the updates coming, I like hearing how the different schools are handling this. Such a unusual time in our world right now. Stay safe everyone.
You can still get books from Amazon. I got just got a study book- 4 days vs the normal 2.
@inthegarden Amazon is shipping books, got D’s AP chem and physics prep books yesterday.
So, those of you whose kids did/are doing SAT practice tests, did you get them from the College Board’s Official SAT Prep Guide? Seems like a no-brainer to get this as opposed to something else, but I’m wondering if there is any downside to it. (Can you tell I don’t completely trust College Board?) Our school didn’t have any old test copies to give out when I asked months ago. There are a few other guides that have unofficial test that simulate the real thing.
I would be getting the book primarily for the practice tests, as I don’t know if I would be able to get her to slog through another math guide. She’d probably do just practice tests and a bit of Kahn Academy a few times per week from here on out until testing resumes (if it does by fall).
@inthegarden yes. Those eight tests are where we started. Tests 5-8 were actually used as real tests. After that, you can go to Re…t, and search SAT tests. There are a bunch of real released tests there too. Don’t use anything but real tests.
@inthegarden If you can just buy a book of practice test/answers, I would do that (no review/prep; just the tests). Or you can download them off the SAT subreddit. I think it has collected 10 tests along with answers - that would be free.
I’m having D stop the SAT prep for now. First test option is June 6 and I’m doubting that will happen. That’s nine weeks away. Every tutor who has written posts about these SAT cancellations is saying to not keep studying now that the test is so far away and to take a break and come back to it closer to the test.
Those of you who are AP prepping…are you doing that because you don’t think your teachers are prepping the kids well anymore since we are not in school? D’s AP teachers reassured the kids that they will be ready.
@homerdog, D is not going to study for Lang, Calc BC or psych, but Chemistry and Physics have given her fits. She wants the insurance she will do well by self studying. She does however have a habit of over studying. But hey whatever helps her feel prepared, must be working as she has 5s on her previous APs.
Schools here are officially closed for the rest of this school yr. Kids start online learning next Monday where teachers will post a video and assignments online. They do not have to log in at a particular time and just need to complete the assignments by the due date.
We have not been told anything about grading or class rank.
I honestly don’t know how long I will have my D prep. So much is up in the air. It’s just that she only had that one SAT test with a disproportionately low math score and never really had follow-up. She did complete most of the PWN book on her own and we have no idea how much, if any, she has improved as a result of that…took a couple of ACT practice tests and the ACT (did worse on that) but no SAT practice tests at home, at all. She has never had an SAT tutor, either. Makes A grades consistently in school and I believe she does learn it at that time but has a hard time retaining all the skills and/or performing in mixed-math tests
@homerdog, it seems your daughter really has mastered the skills through lots of prepping and tutoring and somehow just gets tripped up on the test (anxiety, maybe) but I think my D still has some deficits in understanding SAT’s style and some of the problems that are thrown at her. So I do think some longish-term prep could benefit her (but nothing too arduous…along the lines of 30 minutes per day four times per week for awhile. Now, if she does a lot higher on a couple of practice tests than she got on the Dec SAT then maybe prepping with Khan most days for about a month would be enough to reinforce, then prepping only once or twice per week until we get some kind of fixed test date, whether that’s June or September. With a 620 math score in December, she has a lot she can be working on. I don’t want to leave it until mid-summer.
I don’t have any idea what will happen as far as school. Our school board asked parents to fill out a brief survey about internet access at home, as a sizable minority probably don’t have it, or only minimally (i.e., erratic WiFi and maybe one old computer for a large family). I don’t think online classes will be doable as it wouldn’t be equitable. I have a feeling that teachers will give some assignments and have some way for students to contact them for explanations when needed, but that it will be spotty, and students may just get a pass for attempting to complete work. There will likely be less work to do than normal. so my insistence on my D doing a modicum of SAT prep throughout is also a way to just keep some structure and goal-orientation going long-term.
Fortunately, my D’s physics and pre-Calc teacher will also be her teacher for Calc AB next year so he will be in a position to know what the gaps are and to fill in gaps not covered well in pre-Calc (and maybe give good college recs for the students who made real attempts to keep up their work during this hard time.