<p>Opps sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say 40 situps, they were a day apart.</p>
<p>All right, I never really had to study until last year in AP US History and this year, when I was competing to get the most "high scores" on calculus tests with my friends (I know, very nerdy). So, like Mikil was saying, you should try to find out what method works for you but here is what I did. </p>
<p>For history, I made a chart of all the important terms/events/people etc.. then I wrote in what time period they happened, where they took place and any other pertinent information. I did this around 1 to 2 weeks before any big test and then I would study it in any spare time. Basically I would cover up everything but the term and try to say to myself what I had written. This may or may not work for you, but it definitely helped me.</p>
<p>For math, I find that "looking over" notes or anything does not really help me much. I first determine all of the different types of problems that will be on a test, then I attempt to do one of every type. If I get it right without a struggle, I put a check-mark by it and if it is too difficult, I look up how to do it and then try another similar problem. This method earned me 5 high scores out of 7 tests first semester.</p>
<p>Just one more thing, I don't know how interested your brother would be, but I know when I am working on a difficult problem or just trying to remember a piece of information, I say the question or problem out loud and my younger siblings like to try and guess the answer. Somehow this creates a memorable event and I am less likely to forget whatever it was I was studying. Good luck and I hope some of my suggestions are helpful. And if you don't mind, i too will be praying for you.</p>
<p>I think the true problem is not about studying, but the fact that you don't have the foundation. You state that if you get a 75 you made a deal to get into the AP chem. In our school system a 70 is an F. You will be putting yourself into a class that will move very quickly and it will be hard to keep up with that pace. I am speaking as a Mom and a former school teacher, college admissions(any college) does not look highly on the kid who failed the class for whatever reason, and then to have multiple F's is even worse. Instead of taking an AP (which you have to pay to take the test), take honors and get A's. I am not saying that colleges don't look the other way, but when a pattern is continuing they need to understand what was your reasoning. </p>
<p>Remember you will need to have 2 teacher recs and a gc rec, which they will email directly to the AFA. Your ALO rec will also be a part of your WCS. Your gpa and SAT also goes into the equation. Your ECS and CFA are also scored in. Now the person with the highest WCS from your nom source gets the appt., unless the MOC gives a principal. </p>
<p>If you get an F in a wt class...it still is a 0, whereas if you get a B it is 3.0...do the math, you can't afford the F. </p>
<p>As much as the AFA looks at the whole candidate, they score everyone, your file will state what they have weighted your gpa as, for some kids it went up, some it went down and some it stayed the same. This is why everyone will say hand in your 7th semester. I wish you the very best, but I also hope that if you do not have the foundation and a 75 in Chem is not the foundation you will re-think if you should take the class. </p>
<p>As for your CFA, use the summer for practicing it. The CFA is also scored by numerical scores....that is why the publish the max scores, but never the min...they want you to do the best you can. Obviously 0 pull-ups is the min, but realize that many people start off with 0...our DS started with 2, we put a pull-up bar in his doorway and made him do 5 everytime he entered or left the room, within a month he was up to 9, within 2 months he was up to 14.</p>
<p>That may be true about the foundation. I haven't taken Chemistry since sophomore year. 1st semester I received a 65 (still passing) and 2nd semester I got a 70. At the end of year I took the chem regents and got a 69. I haven't taken bio since freshman year. I think I got 90s in the class and like a 82 on the regents. I can spend my summer preparing for the course, because we get summer assignments on the class. For example once I come back in September, I am suppose to have chapters 1 through X down packed. The Chem teacher is a really good teacher. The bio teacher, not really. That really why some people's success largely depend on the type of teacher you get. If you get a teacher that can not control the classroom and really doesn't want to be there, then you get much out the class. For example my physics teacher retired in the middle of last semester, so I had a substitute teacher for the rest of the year. That's when I was like okay, I have to be responsible for my own education and start learning independently. Sadly, I don't have enough physics labs to take the regents.</p>
<p>You can make it, but you need to ask yourself if you do have the foundation...only you can answer it. However, you should also listen to the gc and teacher they are truly there to help...listen to them.</p>
<p>Where there is a will there is a way! Don't ever give up, the only way you won't be accepted is if you give up.</p>
<p>You NEED to improve your PT scores. All of the scores you listed would fall into the "failing" category at the academy. With 3.5 semesters of athletic probation, I can tell you it was not fun. Don't put yourself in that situation! That is one aspect that is fairly easy to control (30 minutes a day will set you up decently).</p>
<p>Just curious to know, why dosen't the Air Force Academy accepte CLEP or DANTES exams?</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity are you military, b/c what I know of Dantes, it is targeted to the military community. Also remember it really doesn't matter, you can't graduate early, thus you will have 4 yrs regardless!</p>
<p>No, but have seriously considered it. If I don't get into the Academy or Falcon Foundation Scholarship or ROTC Scholarship, I will probably join the ANG and do college, or join active duty and take courses at the American Military University. The reason I asked because I was doing some research on free online college courses. Since I failed a few classes, I want to take the same course on a college level to increase my academic competency. I wondered if taking any of these test help me do so. I've heard somewhere that all failed courses have to be retaken. Is this true?</p>
<p>As a gesture of my appreciation for everyone's help. For the class of 2012, if you PM me your BCT address, I would be more than willing to write to you. I have done this in the past. I have met people from this forum that are now C/2C and I wrote to them during Beast. They told me that it really lifted their spirits. At the same time, the stories they told me motivated me even more. So get as many people as you can to write to you.</p>
<p>AFPJ, if you failed a class don't take the same class at a higher level. Take courses that challenge you, but at the same time you can handle. The USAFA would rather see an A in a honors than a C in a AP.</p>
<p>AFPJ, have you been running and working out lately? I was thinking about your CFA/PFT scores, and like raimius said, they are very far below the minimum standards at USAFA. I would hope that going to NASS and seeing your competition is motivation enough for you. Also, the summer is here, so you should have a ton of free time to prepare physically for both the USAFA CFA and the ROTC PFT. Now get to it!</p>
<p>The only way to increase your academic competency is to re-take the course you failed. I am sorry, but I do not understand your logic. You failed a course and now you want to take it at more advanced level? This goes back again to not your study habits, but you do not have the foundation under your belt. You need to repeat the course, so you can understand it. Look at your little brother who is 5...if he fails 1st grade, what should occur? He needs to do 1st grade over, many times parents will argue with the teacher and make them go into 2nd...and guess what happens...the child will fail 2nd grade b/c he didn't get 1st grade. That is where in essence you are at...you failed a course and now you want to take the next higher level to show you're competitive, but since you don't understand the basics, you are setting yourself up for failure. Remember your *entire transcript * is sent to the AFA that shows every course with every grade and how the school weights the course. It is not just your GPA</p>
<p>After reading AFPJ's CFA results I became curious as to how the Shuttle run is scored.
The following is from Air</a> Force Academy - CFA Intructions
Shuttle Run</p>
<p>Begin with your entire body behind the start/finish line.</p>
<p>On the go command, sprint 30 feet to the turn-around line. Touch your hand and foot simultaneously either at or past the turn-around line, then sprint back to the start/finish line, touch again simultaneously, and repeat until the one-minute mark has been reached.</p>
<p>You will have one minute to rest, and then will repeat the trial.</p>
<p>Maximum Score: 7.8 men, 8.6 women</p>
<p>It states how the Shuttle run is performed but not how a score is given, I was wondering if anyone on the forum could clear this up for me.</p>
<p>That description is a little weird. As I understand it and as we did it at the academy for summer seminar, you sprint 30 ft turn around and come back twice and your score is the number of seconds that it takes you to do this in</p>
<p>Well, that description isn't correct. You run it four times (twice from the start line and twice to the finish) in each trial. Your time is how long it takes you to do this. The Academy will score it for you.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, I understand it now. </p>
<p>I find it funny though that the Academy Admissions page would have faulty directions for the Shuttle run. However I found more advanced directions that give the same description that USAFA10s and pssgiraffe08 gave.</p>
<p>I see. There is no way I can retake AP English though, what should I do about this? Should I just take first semester Eng at a community college or something?</p>
<p>In our state we have what is called Jump Start, and the high school must give the okay to attend the CC. Check into see if you have that. If not take Honors English. It will sldo help you in preparation for the SAT. If I am correct I recall hearing/reading that this yr the AFA will be looking at the written portion of the SAT. Take writing expository, or the other AP counterpart that you did not take...our school offers two AP English classes, one is Lit and one is Composition.</p>
<p>It is not about competing against everyone else, but what you can achieve. The SA's do not want to see you fail, nor does any other college, by taking honors and getting an A, they can view it as you have grown and made the foundation needed to succeed at higher level courses. By pushing yourself into a college course and failing, highlights that you are lacking some foundation.</p>
<p>Be honest with yourself, sit down with your GC and have an open and real conversation about what you need to do. Talk to your ALO. We can give you suggestions, listen and emotionally assist, but your ALO knows who you will be competing against, and his rec will be a part of your file(again you get pts for his rec on the WCS). In our small town of 50K our ALO had 7 candidates. He was open, honest and upfront with our DS, telling him..."here is where you will have problems, here is where you exceed." </p>
<p>Also remember to have your back-up plan in place for AFROTC. Make sure the colleges you apply to have a ROTC det so you can use the funds. Apply early! This way you may be able to have the comfort of the security that you will at least obtain a commission in 4 yrs!</p>
<p>After reading this, I am reconsidering taking any AP class next semester in order to retake failed coureses and build a strong foundation. This is my grades through my high school career. </p>
<p>Freshman year term 1
Fine arts 91
eng 1 90
afrotc 99
global history 95
math a 91
gym 98
biology 95</p>
<p>term 2
eng 2 95
Spanish 95
afrotc 97
global history 95
math a 75
gym 100
biology 90</p>
<p>sophomore year term 1
English 85
writing 80
Spanish 85
afrotc 91
global history 80
math a 80
gym 85
chemistry 65</p>
<p>term 2</p>
<p>eng 96
Spanish 95
afrotc 95
history 93
historical research 85
math b 80
gym 95
chemistry 70
intro to engineering 90</p>
<p>junior term 1
ap eng 50
spanish 80
ap us history 75
math b 55
physics 70
marching band 93
afrotc 90</p>
<p>so instead of me having
1. AP Bio/ AP Chem
2. AP Bio/ AP Chem
3. Latin
4. Statistics
5. Economics 2nd semster Govt
6. JROTC
7. Humanities (English)
8. Marching Band
9. AP European History </p>
<p>ill have
1. humanities
2. eco
3 pre calc (to makeup for failing precalc)
4 Latin
5 jrotc
6 marching band
7 math b ( to make up for failing math 1st term of junior year
8 and 9 AP bio or AP chem</p>
<p>and final semester of senior year
1 humanities
2 govt
3 college alg
4 latin
5 jrotc
6 marching band
7 speech
8 and 9 AP bio or AP chem</p>
<p>I'll talk to my ALO, college advisors and GC. I'm always pestering them anyway. =]
CadetStuff::Profiles::Yes</a>, It's Just Like Top Gun...
This really motivates me when I'm in a slump. Knowing this guy can make it so can I. I am applying for an AFROTC scholarship. But the Academy is what I want deep down inside. I'll apply and reapply untill I get too old.</p>