<p>@Facedownclap - Yeah … it’s so frustrating. But it’s partly the teacher’s fault for a) being stupid enough to leave the answers to tests laying around every single week and b) making tests so hard that nearly an entire class of honors students resorts to cheating to get As. </p>
<p>@metalpawn - the only midterm I had before break was APUSH since the semester actually closes at the end of January. I prefer it that way, really. I hate studying before the hols.</p>
<p>Yeah I have all of my finals after break which sucks because that means teachers can give homework over break including an effing group video project when half of my TEACHER ASSIGNED group is going out of town. We got it done though so I’m good.</p>
<p>I’ve got finals after break, but I refuse to worry about them. I am, however, worrying about my TASP application, APUSH homework, and physics project. </p>
<p>For the first time, getting an A in a classs and understanding the material are two different things, so I’m working twice as hard to keep my 4.0 and learn what it is my teachers want me to learn. Junior year is such ********.</p>
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<p>Me! We have a 3-half-day week (Tues, Wed, Thurs) after MLK weekend (which, for me, is a 5 rounds in 2 days Mock Trial tournament plus an orchestra concert on Sunday night).</p>
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<p>Me! We have a 3-half-day week (Tues, Wed, Thurs) after MLK weekend (which, for me, is a 5 rounds in 2 days Mock Trial tournament plus an orchestra concert on Sunday night).</p>
<p>Our finals are at the end of January. I don’t like that because Fnet=ma (physics competition), AMCs, and NACLO are all around the same time, so finals just pile on the stress.</p>
<p>I need to start working more for APUSH because the teacher’s pretty much the only person I can ask for a humanities/social science rec from. My English teacher (who is pretty good with recs) has a stupid policy of only recommending people who are going into the humanities. I’m a prospective math/physics/CS (any or all) major. gahhhhh</p>
<p>I envy your having the opportunity to complete in Fnet=ma, AMC, and NACLO. Our school doesn’t care enough to do anything except CML (a watered-down version of AMC) and the Grand Concours.</p>
<p>Is APUSH that hard? Or are y’all jus’ being whiney beetches?</p>
<p>APUSH=Time for doing AP Chem, APUSH, and/or AP Physics homework. The teacher isn’t BS either; she gives released AP questions on quizzes and tests and assigns a packet every 3 days. She also has a 60ish% pass rate. And I still have the highest grade in the class, even though I hardly pay attention. Actually, the 2 people with the 2 highest grades in the class don’t pay attention, so I’m not too sure what’s up with that.</p>
<p>Okay cool story brah, but that doesnt answer my original question of why people are complaining about it being so hard then</p>
<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF: it depends on your teacher. It’s not exactly hard just very very time consuming lol.</p>
<p>@truffle… You’re condensing and analyzing over four millennia of history in this continent. To teach it properly… it requires some level of work.</p>
<p>@314159265: We don’t participate in NACLO (I’m going to a local university for that), but… We have an above-average concentration of math/science people (perhaps because we’re almost all Chinese or Indian). Half of the U.S. Physics Team (that went to IPhO) a year or two ago was from our school, which is pretty scary. We regularly take 1st place in local and statewide math contests, and were the most represented school at my summer math program. We’re not even a private school.</p>
<p>The downside is my terrible self-esteem due to knowing a good number of people at my school better than me in pretty much everything. >_< (Especially the freshmen this year. They’re hella beast at math. It’s sort of depressing.)</p>
<p>As for APUSH, it’s really time-consuming if you can’t take notes quickly and have bad recall of details when writing essays and/or taking MC tests. (I do quite well at MC tests and am terrible with essays.) I don’t know how the people who are taking AP Bio + APUSH (which is probably about 1/3 to 1/2 of the ~100 APUSH people) survive.</p>
<p>Troy or the Thomas Jefferson school in Virginia?</p>
<p>I would never ever take APUSH and AP Bio at once since I’m not the memorizer at all. But I <em>may</em> try APAH and AP Bio next year depending on the class rank situation.</p>
<p>No, I go to Mission San Jose. (I wish our school’s offerings were as good as TJ’s. Never heard of Troy before except as one of those high API index schools.)</p>
<p>Bio is actually my least favorite subject (or at least my worst subject excluding PE), so I’m not expecting to take it again unless I need it for college distribution requirements. (This and being terrible at chemistry kind of makes it hard to do research due to the high level of background needed for math/physics/CS research…)</p>
<p>TJ’s offerings are insane.</p>
<p>Mission San Jose? In Fremont? Hmm, my cousin is going there in a few years; I never knew it was such a good school. Troy’s the SciOly powerhouse of the nation and is full of a bunch of smart Asians. Since it’s located in Fullerton, it’s pretty close to a bunch of the SoCal Asian communities, so lots of crazy/stereotypical Asian parents drive their kids for 1 (or even 2) hours every day just to go to Troy.</p>
<p>didnt we already have a thread that died…</p>
<p>^^More like we get a bunch of Asians that are good at math and science. Course offerings aren’t exactly spectacular right now, though we are going to get AP Physics C and Multivariable Calculus/Linear Algebra (if we get enough people to sign up) next year, just in time for current juniors to take them (though I would have rather taken them this year <em>grumble</em>). We didn’t have much of a math club until this year, and we mostly just solve random AMC/AIME level problems without much teaching. Most teachers are pretty average in quality. The pro people generally number 10-15ish per grade, and most other people aren’t particularly good in academics. (But there is a lot of pressure to succeed coming from the many Asian parents, which is probably the cause of a lot of cheating.)</p>
<p>We don’t really have people from far away (since our population is restricted to a particular subregion of the school district). I would think a bunch of those in the Bay Area go to Harker or some other nice private school, except maybe people in San Francisco.</p>
<p>Troy opens its campus to any out-of-district student provided he/she passes a preliminary test.</p>
<p>The only San Francisco private school I know of is Menlo, which may not be in San Francisco at all. How close are San Mateo and Marin counties to San Francisco?</p>