<p>if ya guys just wanna let out the stress, grades, and tears. question:are you more worried about having a low A and keeping it up or having a high B and trying to bring it up?</p>
<p>Finals are over, I have As in at least three of my classes (results from the fourth final aren’t back yet <em>fingers crossed</em>), and I’m on winter break until January 13. Last week I was a wreck.
Keeping an A is easier than turning a B into an A.</p>
<p>I am more worried about keeping my A’s, just because I’d rather stay with the same GPA, high B’s and all, then go down because one of my A’s went down.</p>
<p>I’m unfortunately in the high B category. As the idiot I am, I did poorly on one of my unit tests before so now I have study my sorry ass off.</p>
<p>Failed the second part of my calc “final.” Have a gov’t final monday, a spanish IV final wednesday, a euro test tuesday, and my physics teacher hinted at a test. All-AP schedule. I currently have all A’s. It’s gonna be a fun week. :(</p>
<p>For some reason our school doesn’t do finals until after winter break. This is the last week before break, and all I have to do is a Physics and Music Theory test. You could say I’m pretty chill right now.</p>
<p>Mid-terms don’t start for me until January 21st. Although, I’m taking tests in 5 of my classes this week and have tons of homework, so it’s still going to be a stressful week. At least there are only 5 more days until Winter Break. </p>
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<p>Definitely the latter. In the classes I have As in, I have solid As and am not in danger of losing them. There are multiple classes where I’m on the border between a B and an A, so I need to do well between now and the middle of January in order to bump them up.</p>
<p>I have all A’s right now (barely…) so by default I’m more worried about that. But if I had a B, it’d still be more stressful trying to keep my A’s because I’d have to worry about keeping 6-7 A’s but only getting up 1-2 B’s. </p>
<p>Anyways. I have my two hardest finals (AP Physics & AP Stats) Monday, the first day. SO irritating. Everyone is telling me I should be happy to get them over with… But I’d rather have more time to study! Ugh! I barely have an A in one of the two so I’m freaking out. The rest of week is a joke - two don’t have finals, my con law teacher told us all 70 q’s that’ll be on the final, AP Lit is just vocab, Accounting is already a joke, and Spanish is a project. But yeah… Monday will kill me. In fact, I’m listening to the song “Breakdown” on repeat because it’s very fitting as I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown…</p>
<p>ARGGHHHH
I keep going between the feeling of feeling hopelessly underprepared and feeling pretty ready. The problem is I have no idea how much my final will be part of my AP Chem grade, so I don’t even know if I can get it back to an A… I know exactly what I need to do for AP Econ so I feel a bit better about that.</p>
<p>Right now, I have all A’s except for one A- in what’s supposed to be my easiest class. So I basically need a 96 on a multiple choice philosophy-esque final, and I just know my teacher is going to be so nit-picky about definitions… and it’s tomorrow. Great… On the bright side, my other classes (including AP Chem - yay!) are pretty much safely in the A-range.</p>
<p>Mid terms are next week for me, and only count for 10% of the semester grade. Still, I am worried about my AP chem one, she always tests us on things she goes over very generally, then expects us how to solve it on a AP level with no resources. We took a test over bonding on 10/24 and it is still not in the grade book. There is only 10 AP chem students. I kind of wish I could of took another science, but there is only 2 AP sciences at my school (AP Physics B, which I took jr. year). My only other option would be Honors Anatomy and Physiology but it is too late now… </p>
<p>More venting: We take tests, which are summative aka 70% of the average, and literately everyone does horrible, we are talking about 60-55% on the multiple choice, and we just move on. No going over the test so we can LEARN the content for the AP test. Nope. Just on to the next lesson. At least the labs are fun I guess…</p>
<p>I will be sitting at 2 A+'s, 3 A, 1 B+ and for AP chem, a B flat, not counting the mid term.</p>
<p>Finals are after Christmas Break for us. </p>
<p>There is a uniform final given to all Senior English students - so for AP Literature, I’ll be taking the same final that is given to English 12 CP students. The AP Calculus final should be easy - the quarterlies and finals are typically short and go over concepts rather than the nitty gritty.</p>
<p>AP Gov should be a joke. Everything in AP Gov is a joke, so I don’t see why the final would be any different. </p>
<p>Latin IV will probably be the death of me. I do not know what to expect for that… 
Lots of studying needs to be done.</p>
<p>I have no final for my CC class in Sociology.</p>
<p>Meh.</p>
<p>***I meant midterm, not final.</p>
<p>Anyways, midterms are 10% of our final grade for the year - so even if I bomb them, they don’t show up on the transcript and have a very minor impact on my yearlong grade, so colleges won’t see the (hopefully inconsequential) aftermath until acceptances are already doled out.</p>
<p>Heh…semesters…what are those? :P</p>
<p>Yay block schedule.</p>
<p>I have 5 actual classes, and I’ll only have 3 finals. I won’t have a final in AP Macro or AP Gov, lucky for me because my Macro grade is a 90.
My 3 finals are AP English Lit (ugh the teacher is making a two part final and has basically taught us nothing this semester), Bible and Anatomy & Physiology</p>
<p>I have solid A’s (90< are A’s). My lowest is a 93.1 because of this dumb*** Spanish test I was VERY confident for but got a 72 on (38/48). I’m going to talk to my Spanish teacher tomorrow because I feel she may have mistaken a 3 for a 4 and I actually got a 48 (it’s happened way too many times to disregard this possibility). The first thing I did was go on a weighted grade calculator site and see the minimum scores I need for each subject to keep an A. Do any of you guys know of Destinos? It’s this thing we watch in Spanish 3 each week and answer questions about. </p>
<p>Also, my brother’s high school is awesome (we go to different schools), if you have above a 75 in your subject, the final is optional. I wish.</p>
<p>@apandia: Ha, I thought my IB Spanish class was the only one that watched Destinos. Thankfully we’ve only had to do a few quick assignments for it, although, we’ll probably have to write an essay about it at the end. We’re at episode 23, by the way.</p>
<p>Nice bro, how many episodes do you watch per week? My Pre-Dip Spanish 3 H class does it once a week and we have to answer some questions about it. Every 6 episodes we have a test, which is the one I got a 38/48 on. We also have a Destinos final at the end of the year. We’re at episode 13, consider yourself lucky. It gets a little repetitive, I mean she keeps getting redirected, an endless cycle pretty much. Does it get any better?</p>
<p>I have 2 89%'s to bring up an A and the rest are A’s that should survive finals.</p>
<p>89.5’s are A’s at my school, and with a 90, I need to focus to keep up my AP chem grade. ahhhhhhh redox equations why do you take so longgg</p>
<p>I can’t say I’m too happy with my pre-final grades right now. I have 3 B’s… all of which are for honors classes and are almost borderline but not quite. I’m a sophomore and I’m genuinely upset about these 3 grades, especially because they are math & science related (I want to do something with STEM after high school) and I know for sure that I will do better next semester in these classes but ughhhhh it’s so frustrating because they dropped to B’s literally 2 weeks ago an I can’t bring them back up, even after finals!</p>