<p>Im just wondering if anyone else out there has to put up with massive projects, homework assignments, and tests worth double the amount cause they have teachers trying to compete with AP tests...</p>
<p>My english teacher *<strong><em>ed me off especially; she gave us a GIMUNGUS project due last thursday and then got *</em></strong>ed off when people were missing school to study for AP tests. And then theres my office staff...giving saturdays to half the junior class cause they skipped first through fourth period (to sleep in/avoid tests) before the stat exam.</p>
<p>That really sucks, my school is pretty relaxed about it. During AP week if someone is out the teacher would usually be like “APs?” and the class in unison would be like “yeah” and that’s that. My AP teachers actually indirectly condoned cutting class to study or just chill out.</p>
<p>my AP teachers are awesome about it but the honors teachers arent. unfortunately…most of my classes are honors ones (weighted), cause my school is really weird</p>
<p>my honors english teacher even sent this crazy email about how ****ed she was about AP tests and now i have like an essay to finish by tommorow. ugh</p>
<p>My school doesn’t require students to come to school if they have an AP exam on the day they take it, which makes sense, in my opinion, because I couldn’t possibly get to the test center in time for the exam if it was in the afternoon! I love my school.</p>
<p>We have ours on campus. I got lucky this time, all three of my tests were in the Gym, but generally Q-Z is stuck in the minigym. Which stinks of a mixture of wrester sweat and whatever spray they use on the mats. Even on freeeezing cold, rainy PE days last year i dreaded going in there. It sucks having to be stuck in there for 3 hours.</p>
<p>But, when we have it in the gym, that means that the bells ring every 45 and 45+7 minutes, and for 7 minutes in between (the passing period), its impossible to focus because its so noisy outside</p>
<p>All of my academic classes are AP.
However, one of my AP teachers doesn’t seem to realize that classes other than his exist. Our school has a policy that students miss the half day before an exam unless the exam is 1) the first on a Monday morning 2) AP Studio Art or 3)immediately preceded by another AP exam. So, students with multiple APs will miss many, many class periods. All the while, he’s doing an massive in class activity and not providing students with anyway to complete it if they cannot attend class. If I weren’t a senior, this wouldn’t be so bad since I would have more time to make things up, but I am, which means my last day is the last day of APs. That’ll also be the first day I have this class/have time to see my teacher at all this week. I can’t even turn anything in then though, because all of my final 8th semester grades are due Friday morning. How exactly am I supposed to make up that work before I run out of time?</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if I miss, as long as I make it up. I went home after lunch before APUSH and went home right after the test. Didn’t do the same for Environmental today but may for Human Geo.</p>
<p>Now imagine if your school has a different exam system and you have to study for APs on top of your normal pile of homework. And the teachers won’t reduce the amount of homework even when you mention that you’re taking APs.</p>
<p>But seriously, I go to a small school (1000 kids) that’s pretty underserved. Most everyone in AP classes are in the same classes, so these 2 whole weeks we’ve done nothing at school…we get to miss school after we take the test (in a church with a picture of jesus hanging over us, lol). There are probably 60 ap kids out of the whole school, and the teachers obviously like having us the most, so they’re cool with whatever we do.</p>
<p>We have “School Business” (the equivalent to an absence for a school-related reason, e.g. a fieldtrip) on days we have an AP exam, so we only have to show up for the exam and can take the rest of the day off. </p>
<p>I’d much rather have the day before the exam off though. :p</p>
<p>we just go to school like normal. no study days or chill time before or after, and I don’t even know of anyone who takes the day off “illegally” anyway. we take the test in school, usually in the library, and then return to class.</p>
<p>teachers at my school get more annoyed when AP teachers take kids out of the day to take a mock exam. which I guess is reasonable because it doesn’t count - it’s just a simulation of the real thing. but as for ap week, they respect it and treat it as if they were absent.</p>
<p>We get the whole day off for both AP and IB exams, so I haven’t been to school in two weeks. :).</p>
<p>This is especially awesome considering some IB papers are only an hour, so we get to chill for most of the time.</p>
<p>Our upperclassmen teachers are generally pretty cool with AP exams, since it’s the norm at my school to be gone for at least a week for testing. On the other hand, underclassmen teachers are generally pricks about testing, probably because they aren’t used to their students taking more than one or two APs…</p>
<p>Our exams are held on campus, so we’re expected to carry out the school day normally. AP teachers are usually very flexible during the two week period. In fact, my AP English Language teacher had originally planned two timed writings this month, but after realizing several kids would be either missing or just come from testing for AP exams, she decided to drop it.
Regulars, and even honors, classes are a joke here. So on a typical school day, we don’t get much work. During AP exams, most test takers are able to blow off assignments or get them done last minute and still make an A in that class.
It would be nice to have the day of exams off, though. Or even the day before. No one really wants to think too much after testing and everyone needs to de-stress day before testing. Unfortunately, my school is more concerned about having the majority of students pass the state test (which is so easy, you have to TRY to fail) than having about a third or less of the students passing AP exams. For our state test, we’re awarded one to two weeks off for passing. For AP exams, you get a pat on the back from your AP teacher.</p>
our school is really chill about this~</p>
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