<p>My school is block scheduling... the only thing I don't like is that you either are out of the class for 3-4 months before an AP test, or you are only 1/2 through the semester during an AP test.</p>
<p>my school has block scheduling, its alright...i would prefer the 8 or 9 class schedules. most APs run 3 quarters, so you can only take 4 APs per year (besides AP psych and soc, which are only 1 quarter classes). i just dislike having the same classes every day, so it would be nicer if we had many classes but they switched times throughout the week. school starts at 7:35 (but my bus picks me up at 6:40 and gets there around 7:02) and ends at 2:03 (i get home around 3). i am not a huge fan of many things about my school.</p>
<p>4 classes each day, most of them yearlong, alternate A and B day. 90 or 95 minute classes.</p>
<p>We have 8-block. 4 classes a day 90 min each. So we have A-da adn B-day. I love it. It gives my time to get help and it gives me two days to do homework. It makes haveing a job easier.</p>
<p>the only thing i like about block scheduling is the ability to double up. everything else sucks.</p>
<p>We only have block scheduling on finals week.</p>
<p>I'm with Lamia, 2 days for hw. Woohoo!</p>
<p>I have block scheduling. 3 classes a day. All on Tuesday. 119 minutes each class.</p>
<p>I ADORE block schedules. 90 minute long classes actually give you time to study and concentrate, unlike the horrible 55 min classes back in middle school D:</p>
<p>I prefer block scheduling over periods. You get more junk done in block scheduling. Unfortunately, I have complete morons as guidance counselors, so I do not cooperate well with them...</p>
<p>I would prefer block scheduling, especially for newspaper/yearbook, which is a class at my school. That period is only 40 minutes, so we turn on the computers, shuffle things around on our pages, and then the period's over. It's so impossible to get anything done when you have that amount of time. I would also like it for calculus, since I'd have more time to work on my homework during class.</p>
<p>It's really just a big waste of time to prepare for each class and pack up when you leave. I would prefer block scheduling, but I think I'd like the A and B day system better. The semester system seems like it would be weird.</p>
<p>Four 90 minute classes a day. Other 4 the next day/</p>
<p>I love block scheduling. I always feel like I accomplish much more in my block classes than single periods (1/2 credit classes=single periods). I also think the doubling-up option is amaaaaaazing. I've taken 5 math classes and 5 science classes... and 5 spanish classes. Next year my school is switching to single period classes all year round- THANK GOD I'm graduating this year. For the classes I absolutely abhor, I can't imagine the torture of having them year round.</p>
<p>I despise it. It's one of the reasons I left IB. block scheduling + IB = hell</p>
<p>^ What? Block scheduling for us is awesome. We run A/B Day schedule, which means two days for homework, and in IB that's heaven.</p>
<p>well for us, our courses were divided into two semesters. so for the first half you had 4 courses, for the second you have 3. you have the same classes every day. the order is switched everyday, but it's always the same classes.</p>
<p>As you can imagine, this sucks because if you take a course first semester of one year, you go back into it the next year and start where you left off as if nothing happened.</p>
<p>Yeah I guess that would sort of stink. Though I guess I could relate that to having to take the HL History exam at the end of next year without having studied the HL portion for an entire year.</p>
<p>Humm That is an odd way of doing Block. I never knew block could be done so many different ways.</p>
<p>We have a 6 day "cycle" at my school. There are 6 periods in each day. There are 8 "slots" (ABCDEFGH) in total- but one is usually PE/health/dance/study hall, and one (D or E) is lunch- each of which meet 4 times/cycle, plus 2 "universal drop periods". Science classes have a lab that is half a period at the beginning or end of the period; AP/IB science classes have two labs per cycle. IB Visual Arts is always slot D, and meets 5 times per cycle (I don't know why). Slots D and E are always periods 4 and 5, so my schedule looks like this:</p>
<p>Day 1
pd 1- slot A- AP/IB French Language
pd 2- slot B- English 12
pd 3- slot C- Biotechnology
pd 4- slot D- free
pd 5- slot E- free
pd 6- slot F- AP Calc AB/BC</p>
<p>Day 2
pd 1- slot G- free
pd 2- slot H- AP Physics
pd 3- slot A
pd 4- slot D- IB Art
pd 5- slot E
pd 6- slot B</p>
<p>Day 3
pd 1- slot F
pd 2- slot C
pd 3- slot G
pd 4- slot D
pd 5- slot E
pd 6- slot H- my AP physics lab starts halfway through pd 5 </p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>I like how I don't have every class every day. I also have a lot of free periods this year, which is pretty nice.</p>
<p>My school is different from... most of yours haha. It's like a modified block schedule. First I'll give our schedule from last year (sucked):
M: 13Lunch5, T: 24L6, W: 1Core3L5, Th: 2C4L6, F: 1234L56
Mondays/Tuesdays had 2 hour classes (soooo not good) and friday was about an hour a class. Wed/Thurs were like 1.5 hours. Core class is like homeroom.</p>
<p>Here's our schedule this year. It pwns.
Monday, Tuesday, Friday: 1234 Lunch 56 (again, hour each)
Wednesday: 1 Core 3 Lunch 5
Thursday: 2 Core 4 Lunch 6 (These are only 1.5 hours)</p>