<p>So what kind of crazy review assignments are your teachers giving you guys in order to prepare you for the AP exams?</p>
<p>On one hand, I have an AP teacher who isn't doing much of anything. We're actually still <em>just</em> learning some new material (and our exam is in six days, on Monday). :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But on the other hand, I have a teacher who has given out so much work this year, and doesn't seem to plan to stop anytime soon. First, we have to define 500 vocab words. Each week we have a quiz in which we have to define 30 words that she randomly picks. For each unit (period), we have to fill out describe and list correlations to the five APWH themes, which can be no less than one page (front and back). Furthermore, we have to write a COT essay, C/C essay, and DBQ essay for EACH period. That's FIFTEEN essays! None of this review work can be typed, as she wants us to get used to a lot of writing so we don't cramp up during the essay portion of the exam.</p>
<p>I honestly think this is overkill, but it sure is getting us prepared!</p>
<p>Some of my friends who are taking AP Psych have similar assignments, including hand-defining about 2,000 terms! C.R.A.Z.Y.</p>
<p>...So share your horror review stories!</p>
<p>My AP English Lang teachers is still going over synthesis essays, so I doubt we’ll be doing much review.</p>
<p>APWH teacher has been giving us loads of definitions to fill out as well. It’s incredibly annoying because I already know the words but it still takes so much time to fill everything out -_-</p>
<p>And she’s also given us a stupid chart that we have to get our parents to sign everyday to say that we spent 15 minutes a day studying for the AP exam. This obviously isn’t challenging, especially since I’ve been putting a lot more effort than 15 minutes of study time in each day, but I mean, come on. What is this, first grade? >_<</p>
<p>I agree. Seriously, we’re old enough to determine what kind of studying we need to do. It’s up to us if we want to do good or not, and we know what needs to be done to do so.</p>
<p>It’s the $50 per-student incentive that makes the teachers want us to do well. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>a write up on hamlet…most boring book ever</p>
<p>hah, I wish. we’ve been getting crazy assignments but its not like they help. instead, we’ve been getting irrelevent group time consuming projects on stuff that wont even be on the exam. why are we getting busy work, do they want us to not study???</p>
<p>For Euro, I have to choose two ‘short answers’ on chapters I feel weak on, write a practice free response (we’re doing a DBQ tomorrow, but we’ve already done four-ish), do some questions from an old exam, and fill out an outline of the textbook. That’s today.</p>
<p>lol I actually haven’t been getting <em>any</em> review assignments; instead, I have crazy assignments in general, since almost two weeks of snow days really threw our schedule off.</p>
<p>Last year, though, for APWH, two teachers assigned an absolutely insane packet of roughly 40-50 pages, all of which had to be filled out. It was given enough weight to throw an A to a C if it wasn’t completed. What’s more, if even one open response was blank, 50% was docked off the assignment; two sections blank, 80% docked.</p>
<p>AFTER the AP exam, there were people still scrambling to fill out the packet, which supposedly didn’t even review them for the exam. =P </p>
<p>Over all, I was fairly thankful my teacher didn’t give us that packet.</p>