<p>Okay, you know how each year, there’s this group of students that get pretty much straight A+'s in honors/advanced classes?
For me, in eighth grade, the group was about thirty or forty students (out of about 300).
In ninth grade, the group was about twenty students (out of about 530).</p>
<p>I know the workload does get progressively more difficult, but between which grade is the biggest jump? 9th to 10th? 10th to 11th? Why, and which classes are the most difficult?</p>
<p>For my school, it was throughout 11th grade. Kids get lazy, teachers tend to expect more, and most people have an insanely busy social life.</p>
<p>Yes, same here, junior year was the most hectic time of all our lives thus far. Many just didn’t seem to care much anymore, and with driving social lives really thrived, as well as the pressure of the SAT’s and state testing. Though the group of kids who stayed strong never really went down, and it always at about 30 kids of the 200 that did very well, so…</p>
<p>Junior year kills people at my school. It killed me 1st semester, but then I was ressurected second semester.</p>
<p>I don’t know, really, since I was in an entirely different type of school before last year.</p>
<p>Yup, junior year assassinates gpa’s in my school. Hard Honors and AP classes thrown into the mix all of a sudden catches many students off guard.</p>
<p>junior year at my school, first real year of IB classes.</p>
<p>I worked hard to maintain my 4.0 in junior year… I actually found 9th grade harder because I was unmotivated.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was also unmotivated in 9th grade.</p>
<p>For me it was 11th to 12th, simply because of AP Physics.</p>
<p>Our top 10% was the same sophomore and freshman year, but changed dramatically junior year.</p>
<p>Our class is 70, so there are 7 in the top 10%, and only 4 of the 7 were in it the year before. I was in the top 10% for the first time junior year.</p>
<p>I know SOOOO many kids who had like a 3.9 sophomore year and a 3.0-3.2 junior year. I was just the reverse, I went from a 3.6 to a 3.8.</p>
<p>8th to 9th because middle school classes are jokes in my district</p>
<p>Junior year only</p>
<p>It was junior year at my school…I jumped up about four places in the ranks to 6th because a lot of people really slacked off or had the same grades, whereas mine went up.</p>
<p>9th 3.75, 3.75
10th 4.00, 4.00
11th 4.00, 4.00</p>
<p>As you can see, I sucked freshmen year. It was probably because I had not adjusted to the whole “high school” environment yet.</p>
<p>9th: 97.6
10th: 98.6
11th: 97.0
12th: 94.6</p>
<p>I started getting some sort of senioritis in the second semester of my junior year. Then I got it really bad in senior year.</p>
<p>I agree with the junior year sentiment. All previous honors classes were a joke compared to the rigors of year 11. I eventually adjusted, but only with the help of caffeine and multiple cans of Red Bull, however unhealthy.</p>
<p>In our school, it was actually between 7th and 8th grade (I go to a 7-12 school). 8th was when the honors track started, and it’s the weeding out year, which even the teacher’s say at the start of the year. D’s in 8th grade algebra aren’t fun, especially if 50 % of the classes got them for the year ;(</p>