<p>Hello! Oh well I have a question wondering about high school (gonna be in 9th next month). I was wondering if 9th Honor classes would be hard because I'm in one of the top high schools in my state and I'm afraid honors for this school would be harder than other schools. And I have to continue maintaining a 4.00 GPA but I'm scared that these classes might drop my gpa :( I heard you get at LEAST 4 hours of hw and get tons of projects. So are the classes hard? Answers would be appreciated!</p>
<p>From my experience, it depends on what teachers you get and your study habits. If your teacher is awesome, you’ll have a lot fun in that class and you’ll have an easier time doing homework. And also keep up with course work and don’t miss any assignments, but if you do, make it up as quickly as possible. Hope this helps. :)</p>
<p>Honors can be hard (I have had me semester report cards range from a 3.6-4.0). I agree with geography123 it is partially luck of what teacher you get. Honors is supposed to hard and probably will be. That being said I can speak from experience that when you belong in honors and get stuck in a non honors class (there was a scheduling issue freshman year) you get bored and don’t pay attention/learn. There are more important things then a 4.0, take as many honors classes as you can freshman year, if the workload is too much drop down a bit sophomore year.</p>
<p>It’s better to take honors then average basically period. But especially if you have a 4.0 GPA. If your Highschool weights GPA at all if you get an A in an average class it’s a 4.0 but if you get an A in an honors class it’s a 4.5.
Colleges look at how hard your coarse work is as well as your GPA
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With that said I just finished freshman year and it wasn’t hard. I had to study a little more and there was more homework but as long as I didn’t slack I had a steady A. Don’t worry just work hard</p>
<p>You’re a freshman, you don’t have anything to “maintain” yet. There is no possible way for anyone on this forum that doesn’t go to your school to tell you about the difficulty of honors classes at your school. “top school in the state” or not (most of those rankings are seriously flawed anyway) if you have any hopes of going to a top 100 university, take honors classes. You’ve found your way to this forum, so obviously you care about your education, and in standard classes you’re going to see all of the kids who DON’T care (generally speaking, that is.) I can almost promise you that you won’t have a perfect GPA when you graduate, and that’s fine, because there’s a reason why Harvard’s average GPA isn’t a 4.0.</p>
<p>If I could redo my freshman year, I would have taken harder classes. I was too scared like you about bad grades and I took stupid electives like Foods and computer applications. Such a waste of my time.</p>
<p>At my school you have awesome honors teachers that are willing to help you out and other times you get ones that are like ‘Are you not about to go into college in a few years? Learn to do it by yourself. <em>7 page paper due tomorrow</em> >_<’. You should have a good experience overall and at my school, even though we have more work, we have more fun because teachers know we’ll get stuff done and get it done on time so, they’re more lenient.</p>
<p>As long as you get your work done and stay on track you should be golden. Don’t let the other stuff that freshman are usually worried about get in the way! I mean have a social life but, don’t make it top priority. You have time for that later when you have a solid GPA to go on and the littlest thing won’t put it in peril.</p>
<p>I felt the same way freshman year and I’m a senior now! I didn’t take my own advice though so I learned the hard way! Have a good time in high school! It’s going to suck sometimes but, you have to put that stuff behind you!</p>
<p>Frankly, I didn’t find my honors classes as a freshman to be very hard at all. I took English 9, Geometry, Biology, and Government, all at the Honors level. At times, I felt that English and Government moved a bit too slowly! I struggled a bit with Geometry because math is my worst subject and my teacher wan’t very good. It’s very important that you keep up with your homework (I had about an hour and a half today every night). Teachers tend to assign a lot of homework as a way for students who struggle with tests to earn “easy” points. This can backfire on you if you don’t do your homework. You will be absolutely fine if you pay attention and do your homework (a concept that applies to any class at any level).</p>
<p>in some ways, highschool is easier than middle school. I had low grades in middle shcool because the teachers cared way too much, we had tons of assignment (all of which the teacher graded). When I went to highschool it was just, hey I’m your teacher, do your homework if you dont your miss, if you do, great for you. I dont remember if homework is more or less, but I never did the hw in middle school… and highschool hw, i got straight a’s honors classes and an AP class and homework was at most 1.5 hours a night.</p>