<p>Do you do additional textbook reading for your classes?</p>
<p>In other words, do you do textbook readings that your teacher didn't assign in order to learn more about the subject? </p>
<p>I know someone who claims to have done well on state standardized tests because she read her high school textbooks from cover to cover in all of the major subjects (ie--social studies, science, math). What do you think of that strategy?</p>
<p>Yeah, but I don’t do it for academic purposes. I’ll just do it for fun.</p>
<p>The only ones I ever read would be my World History and American History textbooks, because they were the only ones that assigned textbook work. I also read ahead for English books for fun sometimes.</p>
<p>I don’t think reading cover to cover would help you on standardized tests, though, unless your brain has a penchant for remembering nitpicky details and understanding main ideas (which mine sort of does).</p>
<p>It’s hard enough to read assigned textbooks…</p>
<p>Yeah, but only in Social Studies and Science. I’ll read ahead and skip around in the books, but purely for fun. It’s really just what interests me, not to do better on tests. I also always finish English books early.</p>
<p>Hahaha, no.</p>
<p>Nope, I don’t do anything much outside of what’s required in class. I’ve never really bothered to find out what’s beyond Chapter 6 in my Calc book. Nor have I ever ventured around much in my Bio book …</p>
<p>I once heard someone say that intellectual curiosity is the key to academic success.</p>
<p>Sometimes I will skim for fun/curiousity…or to get a better understanding of something but typically … no. You guys take it to a new level. </p>
<p>Live for today, plan for tomorrow.</p>
<p>I did for AP Biology this year. I was one of the few students who actually opened their book. </p>
<p>I’ve also down it for AP World History, just because the class was so interesting.</p>
<p>Finished ap micro and macro econ in 16 days. Only opened the book for the first chapter then got bored lol…I tried but I just couldnt again.</p>
<p>^ ap micro’s not that bad</p>
<p>Yeah I know…thats why I took them over the summer</p>
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<p>I like this quote. It might explain why some of the people I know who are taking multiple AP’s to impress colleges and don’t actually give half a damn about what they’re learning are so miserable.</p>
<p>I don’t like going ahead, but I do read the pages of the next chapter so I can be prepared for the new material. I did that once in Biology on DNA and ended up with a good test score. It helps sometimes, but I really don’t like overachieving that much.</p>
<p>Elleya, someone once said something like that on this board: AP/IB students who sincerely enjoy learning are happy; however, those who are take hard classes and get good grades just to impress colleges are not happy.</p>
<p>I read the whole AP World History book before starting the class, but that’s because they gave it out early for summer homework and the book was really interesting. And, in general, my high school teachers never assigned reading per se, so any reading I did for the purposes of studying was additional, if that’s your definition of it.</p>
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<p>I like this as well! I wish more people at my school were the former and not the latter. It seems like there are people on CC who fit in the first category, which makes me happy.</p>
<p>I read every single story in my sister’s and my own English textbooks. I enjoy reading them. My school didn’t change the textbooks, so when I got my freshmen English textbook, I had already read the stories when my sister was a freshmen.
I also read and look at the pictures of science textbooks.</p>
<p>I like going on Amazon and buying cheap used textbooks (like 10 cents a pop for some of them) for some summer reading. So far I have a few on forensics, epidemiology, genetics, so no, not the textbooks for my classes.</p>