<p>lol the real question is how do you do 35 hours of work in a week</p>
<p>i'm in 6 honors/ap classes and i average about 15 minutes of hw a night - i usually just do the rest the period before it's due</p>
<p>it works fine</p>
<p>I'm only taking 2 and my grades are suffering :P though I'm also taking 3 honors classes (which at my school, are generally just as or slightly less difficult than the AP classes, so there's not really a major difference between honors and AP's)</p>
<p>Haha but it's really my choice. And technically I have all A's this grading period...and hopefully I'll be able to keep it up (all 5 of my ap/honor classes are borderline a/b right now :P)</p>
<p>It's funny, actually, the class I work the hardest in/spend the most time for is journalism, which everybody is pretty much guaranteed an A if they do their work.</p>
<p>I guess it depends on your priorities.</p>
<p>My school sucks, thats why :D .</p>
<p>Most of my teachers are evil...they never give us time in class to work on homework and they hardly teach anything related to what is on their homework.</p>
<p>Hopefully it's just my bad luck (I did get some of the most "homework-giving" teachers).</p>
<p>Last year I took 8 classes at once that were all honors and I hardly got homework.</p>
<p>I'll be lucky if I don't get a C. I do have an A in APUSH though, thank god.</p>
<p>I think 35 hours / week a little too much. I'm taking 4 APs as a Junior and I spend on average 1.5 hours/day doing homework. Try changing your study habits.. Like I always go a library and do my homework because I have nothing/ no one distracting me. It's surprising how productive I am working in a library compared to working at home. btw: i have solid A's in all my classes except Spanish (91 eh) so straight A's junior yr. can be done! And our school does 8 periods a day..!</p>
<p>It isn't just me either. Most (and I mean nearly all of them) of the kids in similar classes like mine are staying up past 1:00 each night. I probably could change my habits a bit by doing more homework on the weekends, even though that probably wouldn't help that much.</p>
<p>junior year is hard. i got straight A's first quarter, but im a little more worried about second quarter. i dunno, i don't do all that much hw... </p>
<p>APUSH- 5-7 hours a week
AP env science- 2 hours a week, if there is i test i spend ~4 hours studying the two night before
honors chem- 2 hours a week, more if i have a test coming up
pre-calc- i always have time to finish my hw in class
spanish 3- again, i do all my hw in class. i study a little the night before a test
french 4- really varies from week to week. 1 hour up to 4 hrs a week
english- 4 hours a week</p>
<p>oh man oh man.....im dying....im in WAY over my head....i dont know what i was thinking!! so sunday night i was up all night...literally...i finished what i needed to do around 6:15am...then monday i passed out around 3:30 when i didnt mean to ...and woke up at 7:30pm....and i was like crapppp...no school tuesday for voting, but i had a test to take so i woke up at 7...dont remeber when i went to bed..but yah, the WHOLE day i spent at the library(i swear i didnt waste like any time)getting stuff done...but i had so much to do i didnt get to bed until 2:30..acyually i fell asleep on my AP bio book(for future reference, it does not make a good pillow)...woke up around 5:00..said screw this and slept for another hour...then got up and scrambled around to get a couple things filled in...went to school and turned in some crap that did not reflected the hours i spent on it...</p>
<p>^ouch...I hate days like those. I'm usually awake during all of my classes, but for some reason I fall asleep during Chemistry and my teacher has yelled at me so many times...she hates me.</p>
<p>I'm probably going to have to stay up till 3:00 tonight.</p>
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^^If you are struggling to get As junior year, you should NOT be taking 6 AP classes... sucks for you... Actually doing well in AP courses is more important than taking an excessive amount of them if your grades drop </p>
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heh, I'm doing alright in my classes I guess. I just kind of messed up a few tests in those classes and did not put as much effort as I could have. In no way am I "struggling". And from the time I posted that last message to today, I have brought all my grades up to A's.</p>
<p>To me, I'm more than happy to have As in all 6 AP classes, and would not consider that struggling. But we're all entitled to our own opinion. America is so beautiful :)</p>
<p>When one completes homework in 15 minutes or 1 hour, then most likely one does not attend a competitve school. I am only taking 2 honors classes and it takes me about 2 hours to complete them. We get about 50 problems a night in math with 90 problems a night in chemistry. Now that is compettive and time consuming. Also, English, which is regular we have to write a 1-2 page paper everyday with short quizzes once a week and quizzes everday in History. All in all, it totals 5 to 6 hours and I have not even included Spanish.</p>
<p>I go to a well-ranked school and most of my classes don't give me homework. They think we're motivated enough to study ourselves. So what that ends up meaning is I finish the homework in an hour, then spend four or five hours reading the book and doing problems I assign.</p>
<p>I don't think that just because a school doesn't give their students much homework means it is a bad school. I really don't mind that much homework because it is easier to get an A.</p>
<p>i dont think that amount of homework reflects how competitive a school is because everyone has different levels of knowledge and motivation. For example, I normally have 2-3 hours of homework per day, but I complete a lot during my free block, at lunch, and during free time in class and I have a 4.2 GPA. There are other people in the same classes as me who are up until 1 every morning to do homework and don't get all As. Plus, I'm an IB diploma candidate which involves more analytical thinking, which means that we don't get many rote problems to solve, and more reading and writing.</p>
<p>I go to a very competitive school and I get about 6 hours a night. My midterm grades showed 2 As and 3 Bs. I am taking two AP courses (AP Physics B and APUSH) My worst class right now is APUSH which I spend the most time doing its homework. Most nights consist of 1-1.5 hour of its reading and writing. The class is going through 3 chapters in just this one week. Exam is next week and I'm a little nervous about reviewing 12 chapters altogether.
My other classes take a lot of time too. After 3 weeks of going to bed at 1, although I often started my work at 6 or 7, I decided to do some homework for the next week during the weekend prior to that week. It helped. I still had fun over the weekend. I merely started homework a little early on Saturday night, as opposed to only doing it on Sunday alone. Now I'm sleeping at 11.
Anyway I know I won't be able to pull straight As on all my classes this year but I am definitely aiming for an average of A overall...</p>
<p>Damn, your schools must be super competitive. Ours is already recognized by almost all ivy leagues and is ranked top 40 every single year nationwide. Yet, we still don't get as much as SIX hours of homework a night. Yikes!</p>
<p>btw, here's the list I used
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/</a></p>
<p>Im taking 3 APs senior year, and I only get about 2 hours a night max... I think it really depends on the school.</p>
<p>Even the kids taking 4 at my school (theres only two or three as far as I know) I cant imagine having any more than 3.</p>
<p>6 hours a night?</p>
<p>One person said they had 3 hours a night of AP US homework, how is that really possible?</p>
<p>I have 5 classes and I have an hour of hw for each class, not including tests and quizzes review</p>
<p>the problem that you are having is that you either read to slow or you are taking to much demanding courses. You should go to ap U.S. history notes and chpater by chapter in the american pageant is throughly sumarized.</p>
<p>it's not necessarily that they're reading to slow or that the classes are too hard. I read faster than most people and my classes are challenging, but not exceptionally difficult and I still have about five hours of homework a night. Doing homework during lunch doesn't always help either considering that most of the people in my classes dont have lunch or free periods because of scheduling.</p>
<p>I have a big problem with classes that don't give homework or the teacher doesn't check them. It creates a habit of laziness in me and when the test comes, I'm doom. Having said this, I realized that I won't do so good in college because professors are not gonna care if I did my homework or not. So anyway, as long as you're aware that it's the most important year of your high school you should be motivate enough to do your best. As for me, I already screwed up last year. It's too late to change anything.</p>