<p>I'm in an honors class and lthe material doesn't get in my head. I have like a 74% average right now and I feel like this is going to hurt me in college admissions. This is my class schedule so far.</p>
<p>Math 10H - C</p>
<p>English 9H - A/A+</p>
<p>Earth Science - B+ going to be an A by like next week.</p>
<p>Design and drawing for production - B+/A</p>
<p>AP World History - C (nothing i can do about it. as long as i do my hw i am guaranteed with a C. will actually try on the tests next quarter or somehting)</p>
<p>Gym - A+</p>
<p>Digital Photography - A+</p>
<p>Comp Prog Visual Basic - A+</p>
<p>French 2 - B/B+/A</p>
<p>so yeah is it going to hurt me? I am looking at TIER 1 SCHOOLS btw (all ivys, U. Chicago, UCLA, etc)</p>
<p>i just dont understand the material and my parents force me to take it but yeah i dont want to hurt my GPA TOO BADLY =/ thanks for ur opinions.</p>
<p>I'm in the same class in 11th grade, and I'm having my test on functions tommorrow. The Math B regents blue book is good, as well as oswego regentsprep.org...also I just search like "rational expressions help". Ask your teacher, too, if you haven't already.</p>
<p>I did. I have a tutor that forces a minimum of 1 1/12 hours/$150. It is just getting through my thick skull. I'm like going to like kill myself because my parents say I don't study enough when I study like 4 hours straight like 2 days before the exam and still fail.</p>
<p>wow man ur struggling in math b? i took that in the 9th grade also, i mean i skipped a year of geometry, i recommend, just buy a regents prep book and look through it, it covers a lot of concepts and ideas so you can improve</p>
<p>Oh I miss the days of Math B... so much easier that what I have now... (ap calc). Mind you, I think what I have now is easy but that's besides the point.</p>
<p>What about a student tutor- any options at your school? I tutor underclassmen at my school and charge $15 an hour (what the school suggests- there are several student tutors). That 15 would be a lot easier to manage than 150.</p>
<p>how about taking a whole saturday/sunday and going over all the material you did since school started and do alot of practice problems until you are comfortable with it?</p>
<p>Hmmm, from your description, I'm guessing Math B1 is similar to Honors Geometry in our school system. I took that class in the 8th grade, and while it was very different from the typical math class (due to being proof-based), I found that reading the book and doing lots of practice problems worked well in gaining a good understanding of the material. By the second grading period, I basically had a study plan down for geometry and I could get As without much trouble. The important thing is to figure out what study techniques work best for you, and to always do your HW and extra problems if necessary.</p>
<p>I'm currently in Multivariable Calc, and the same techniques apply here as well. Figure out a study plan that works for you and don't slack off by not doing HW. Hiring a tutor might help in your case, but I never really thought much of the idea that you had to pay someone $25-50 an hour to teach the material to you when you could do it yourself if you really set your mind to it.</p>
<p>Since you are in the 9th grade, your GPA won't be considered to be quite as important as your 10th and 11th grade GPAs. Now is the time to TRULY figure out a successful study plan and stick to it for the next two years. If you get a decent, but not excellent (let's say 3.5 UW) GPA this year, you are still in the running for top colleges as long as you do well in the 10th and 11th grades. I was pretty much in the same situation as you GPA-wise since I had a hard time adjusting to high school classes, but I got pretty good GPAs (3.98 and 3.93) in Soph/Junior years and those offset my ~3.7 from freshman year.</p>
<p>Good luck! I hope you do better in math B1.</p>
<p>No way. I definitely do NOT want to go in a regular math class. That is like out of the question for me. Like I am motivated to do good but that spark isn't just happening.</p>
<p>A B to me is like A+ lol. Well in that class and AP World of course. I just hope I do good soon to at least be competitive for the Ivy's or else I will have to resort to my 2nd other tier school that I wouldn't mind getting into . . . NYU Film =D</p>
<p>I did functions in 8th grade. Don’t worry: they’re not that hard. What you are doing in honors is regular math in my school. I’m in 9th honors: we’re doing modern algebra (groups and fields). Don’t worry: you’ll get through it. :)</p>