<p>Anyone else here hate writing up lab reports? I know they are useful to analyize what happened and to understand the concepts but seriously, I am not going to be a chemist later in life. I don't give a crap about what was happening at the atomic level during a combustion reaction. </p>
<p>This is just a rant thread i guess.</p>
<p>ME! But this year we don't do them. I <3 Bio! But last year was just............ UGHHHH! Really, it made me say ugh.</p>
<p>I don't mind answering post-lab questions about what happened during a lab. But I hate analyzing sources of error.</p>
<p>I LOVE lab reports - just not doing them the night before.</p>
<p>Well, for AP chem at least. In AP bio we have labs that concern, you know, breaking toothpicks etc and that's just stupid.</p>
<p>^^ haha. we never had lab reports in my bio class.</p>
<p>physics labs are impossible because he wants the most abscure thing</p>
<p>chem ones rock</p>
<p>we did a lab about heats of fusion etc etc and our teacher is really easy going and my friend's discussion (the heart of the lab) went like this:</p>
<p>This lab was thrilling! Melting ice was the most fun 10 minutes of my life. I hope it appears on the midterm! At least this lab was environmentally friendly.</p>
<p>The teacher wrote, "ok, but what did you learn and what were sources of error?"</p>
<p>But he still got 100 because she only takes off for spelling errors and forgetting to label stuff...you can get every question wrong but if it's spelled right and labeled, it's 100.</p>
<p>I envy you, logisticslord. I wish my AP Chem lab reports were graded that leniently.</p>
<p>Our labs involve half the class getting together at someone's house and laboriously discussing the questions to death. Or, widespread panic.</p>
<p>yes, demeter...thats how AP Physics is and AP Bio will be next semester...very much hard</p>
<p>its only her second year teaching AP Chem and she makes us do the labs in notebooks because thats how she did it when she worked in the food laboratories...i always put smart aleck comments in the lab and i put pictures of irrelevant stuff...my friend and i made a points competition....we try to get her to write stuff like Nice! Excellent! Great! Good! and the check marks she makes count too...its good fun since its not about a grade, its about the points competition since we both have 100 lab averages anyways</p>
<p>I have done very few lab reports, but just have mainly filled out the data sheets and derived equations that constitute a lab. We don't normally have pre-lab/post-lab questions, and the labs are usually graded upon the original data presented (if the data is skewed but the analysis is correct, then full credit is awarded).</p>
<p>the pre-lab questions for us are easy. they're normally just definitions. It is more busy work than anything. However, our reports are more research reports that happen to include some numbers and charts in the middle.</p>