<p>I wish my school was like 90-100 is a 4.0</p>
<p>97-100 for a 4.0 is super hard Dx</p>
<p>Oh yeah my schedule</p>
<p>MYP Chemistry(Our equivalent to Honors)
MYP Alg 2/Trig
HPE II
MYP English 10
AP Comparative Gov’t
MYP Spanish III
Advanced Computer Math -Honors Course</p>
<p>Really, I could sleep in every class and know what we’re doing.</p>
<p>It’s totally possible. My secret? 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night. I go to boarding school so my schedule is a little off…thank god I have a single otherwise I’d have a really angry roommate. </p>
<p>So it’s basically:</p>
<p>4 am: Wake up, do work
6:45 am: Take a shower
7:15 am: Breakfast
7:45 am: classes start
3:15 pm: classes end
3:45-5 pm: dance practice
5-5:45 pm: working out in the gym
5:45-6:15 pm: Eat dinner
6:15-7:30 pm: Various meetings for MUN, debate, newspaper, etc.
7:30-8:15 pm: Peer tutoring
Then hang out in the dorms and do work until 11 or 12 when I go to sleep</p>
<p>Weekends I do more ECs…debates once a month usually on Sundays, working on newspaper stuff, reading, skype-ing with friends from home, dance rehearsals/working on choreography, going for runs, volunteering, etc.</p>
<p>I am a junior taking the hardest classes with a 4.04 uw GPA (basically unheard of at my school for anyone taking remotely hard classes).</p>
<p>grr…I wish my school had 90-100 = 4.0 and I wish we had block schedule. :</p>
<p>yes…</p>
<p>4.0 uw
eng 3 honors
apush
ap calc
ap psych
ap enviro
sports</p>
<p>varsity bball and vball player. i go to church on sundays, hang out with friends on sat, do my homework whenever i am free(or on a sunday). all you have to do is work hard.
i wake up at 6-6:30 and sleep at 11-11:30, school starts at 8, i usually come home at 3-4.</p>
<p>@alwayshungry: Okay, now THAT is an intense schedule. I couldn’t rely on 4-5 hours of sleep every night, or I’d make a ton more mistakes on tests and I wouldn’t pay as much attention in class.
Off topic: The thing that sucks is that I get like 7-8 hours of sleep but I have huge bags under my eyes, and the people at my school who get like 4 hours of sleep every night have perfectly fine eyes. lol.</p>
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How is it a mystery? Do your homework and have a social life.</p>
<p>Alright, give me a break. It’s not a mystery, but it seems pretty damn hard to do, considering I don’t absorb or memorize info easily.</p>
<p>Well it’s definitely harder if you can’t absorb/memorize info easily. My short term memory is pretty awesome, great for cramming, and most HS courses don’t require much more effort past that.</p>
<p>Yes. I have a 4.2 and have never gotten a B. It actually isn’t very hard. I pay attention in class, go out after school usually until around 9pm weeknight (my curfew), then come home and write any papers or just do homework in general. The key is priorities. For example, I know I do not need to do math homework to get an A in the class. So, I don’t. It’s that simple. </p>
<p>You might run into trouble if you are a person that needs to study for tests or whatever. Otherwise it is fool-proof.</p>
<p>Wow, you don’t study for tests? Haha, that’s definitely not me.</p>
<p>No. I studied for APUSH in spanish every test day last year. Other than that, nah.</p>
<p>EDIT: I cram for AP Bio this year the morning of for a half hour or so (I have it 1st period). So I guess that counts as studying</p>
<p>To answer the OP’s question… definetly. I stay after school and/or go in early each day for track or cross country practice, and almost always do something with friends on the weekends, and I have a 4.0 unweighted (higher weighted). I might not have the most vivid social life, but I’m a happy person. :)</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>I know many</p>
<p>and I go to a top public</p>
<p>I got a 4.0 this year w/ 2 hours of Cross country track after school AND have a life</p>
<p>you’re asking people on CC. their definition of what a “life” is may be a bit skewed. just saying :P</p>
<p>Definitely skewed :)</p>
<p>You just don’t get a lot of sleep, at least at my school. And if you’re in honors classes, your friends are definined by who is also in honors classes, because you’re sure to see people outside of school only occasionally (which only partially counts as a social life…)</p>
Making a 4.0 (all As) is totally possible. One strategy I have learned to is to try and balance the easy and hard classes. So take an equal number of super hard classes and less hard classes. Especially junior year BC it is known as the year that can kill you at my school. Just be ready to pull all nighters to write papers or study for finals. All nighters aren’t required but can happen. They’re not that bad for me, but make sure you sleep well the next night.
However, if you want to be in the top ten or ten percent then you need more than a 4.0 (weighted). Take as many advanced classes as possible but be realistic. Start study groups BC they are amazing if you can get serious people to come (you know, the people who actually want to study). Also if high class rank is what you want, learn how you school calculates GPA and use that info to your advantage. For example, my school calculates senior GPA at the end of seventh semester so everyone tries to take as many weighted classes first semester of senior year and then can coast second semester.
Study tips: index cards are amazing for chemistry units. A master equation sheet for physics organized by topic. Highlighter for vocab. Change the font and color of letters when writing essays to keep your mind from going numb when going back to edit. Drink water just BC its healthy.
Aside: haha last year our acp chemistry teacher told us to pull an all nighter for the test and then skip the rest of the day of school. Thankfully I didn’t have to pull the all nighter but it was close.
@hellohellicopter I don’t mean to pick you out, but in what grade are the people who are asking these questions? Unless you’re at lest a junior you can’t even answer this…
Not possible at my school. It kind of annoys me that people can easily get a 4.0 because of their school being easy as heck, though.
Just for reference, all my classes this year are either college classes and/or STEM and I weaved together my schedule by taking classes from 4 different schools, so I’d say I have a fairly rigorous course load (you can decide what this means in terms of your school though) and have maintained a 4.0. I have managed to keep up my EC’s, see friends often, take random weekend road trips across the state, and get plenty (if not too much) sleep. My secret? The time I set aside for homework is strictly for that (no distractions whatsoever) and I enter a state of super productivity. One of my classes is a self-paced online course- this week I finished just under half of it (with a high A). This may just be me, but I have productive bouts, followed by times when I don’t feel like doing anything. I can identify these times well, and I make use of the productive periods. Figure out how you operate best and work to your strengths. Another tip is to tailor your schedule to fit your interests as much as possible. This way you enjoy what you’re learning. It’s absolutely possible.
Then again, I don’t feel the need to study. People who have to work harder and study constantly would probably have an issue maintaining a social life and their grades. I don’t know, it all really depends on the individual.