<p>I am a highschool senior this year. I am taking:
AP English
AP Psychology
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors Early Human History
Honors Anatomy and Physiology
Honors Eastern and Western Thought</p>
<p>I usually have to wake up at 4 or 5:00 in the morning and do homework for 2-3 hours, go to school, come home around 3:00 and do homework until 10 or 11. On bad days, I will do homework until 12:00 and still have to wake up at 4 or 5:00. I am so exhausted constantly. I am thinking about dropping the eastern and western thought class. My guidance counselor said I could but it would say withdrawn passing on my transcript. That would mean that I was doing fine in the class but dropped it. I am worried this will hurt my transcript. What should I do? I am worried that if I do not drop it though my other classes will be hurt and I just will not be able to last the whole school year.</p>
<p>That is way too much homework! You need time to do things you enjoy and rest. Sometimes, I feel like advanced classes give lots of “busy work” homework just so they seem super difficult. If the eastern and western thought class is giving you the most homework and you don’t enjoy it, then I would drop it.</p>
<p>I think you need better time management. From personal experience, Honors Anatomy/Phys and AP Psych are not a lot of work. Just reading and memorizing for tests. Plus you get home at 3, that is 7 hours of homework time to get to bed at 10. I know I would LOVE to get to bed at 10 or get home as early as 3. Plus, maybe its because I have trained myself to stay up later but, you only stay up until 10-11? And even if you did go to bed at 10 and wake up at 4-5, you would still get 5-6 hours of sleep which is more than a lot of kids get when in AP classes. This is what makes me think its more of a time management/procrastination thing. I get home around 8-9 most days now and do homework until 1 and I manage fine.</p>
<p>All I see is two AP classes and three honor classes…the only problems I see aiding are the assignments…which hopefully are ridiculous if it’s taking you that long.</p>
<p>It is mostly because I have really bad anxiety with school. I know its weird but if I do not study a ton for a class then I will basically end up blanking on the day of the test and failing it. I know many people think “test anxiety” is fake but it is not. I have to study this much or the anxiety is just unbearable. I also have a pretty hectic family life. I know it may sound weird to some people but for me these classes are really really hard. Not because of the information, mostly because of the anxiety I have with school work</p>
<p>Have you talked to anyone about the anxiety such as your GC or school psychologist? There are ways to ease the anxiety. It would be helpful to you now and in the future.</p>
<p>Like OhioMom said have you taked to anyone at your school about your anxieties? At my school there’s a “Resource Center” where the teacher is specifically trained to help students deal specifically with anxieties. Even if your school doesn’t have something like that - it might be good for your school to know. I’m sure they could help you come up with some learning strategies.</p>
<p>If you have that much anxiety regarding tests you need to seek out help as well as consider dropping down into easier classes. Every school is different, but at least at my school I have taken a workload about that hard both last year and this year and tend to get no more then 4 hours of homework (usually closer to 2-3) with the exception of when I have major projects. Like I said before if you have that much of an issue with tests I really would drop down if I where you. Maybe consider dropping an AP class, since they tend to be test oriented.</p>
<p>I’m assuming that you start your homework around 4 and go straight through until you’re done without any other long breaks? and that you work a lot on the weekends too? if that’s the case… dropdropdropdropdrop… it’s not worth it</p>
<p>You probably need better time management/efficiency/study skills. I never spent that much time doing homework (even with more AP classes)…</p>
<p>I always found that if I don’t understand a topic very well (such as gyroscope motion in my recent physics class), I’d probably end up blanking out for half an hour on one hw problem before finally reading the material. You want to make sure you really understand the material when you do hw or take a test.</p>
<p>If you honestly are doing that much homework, and the schools you applied to aren’t ivy league, then definatley drop whichever one is giving you the most homework because that’s rediculous! I swear it’s those stupid honors classes that give all the homework! My honors class gives 10x more homework than any of my AP classes.</p>