<p>Freshman:
Honors Biology: B/B
Spanish I: B/B
Honors US History: A/A
Honors English I: A/A
Algebra I: B/B</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Honors Chemistry: 85% (Class average is 79%, so I'm OK here)
Honors Spanish II: 95%
Honors World History: 96%
Honors American Lit: 97%
Theology: 95%
Geometry: 75% (there will be no more grades to go in for the rest of this semester)</p>
<p>:S:S:S:S:S</p>
<p>I have a 75% in the class as of right now (Geometry), and if I get ANYTHING below an 85% (which is likely) on the midterm, I will have a C for the semester :S</p>
<p>I want to go to CUNY, Stony Brook, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, UMass, University of New Hampshire, UConn, etc...</p>
<p>I don't plan on majoring in math/science. I will major in English Lit. </p>
<p>Am I screwed??</p>
<p>Um...What should I DO?!?!?!?! PLEASE HELP! I AM DYING HERE!!!!!!</p>
<p>Midterm for math is on monday :S and she won’t give me extra credit either! Whenever I ask for help, all she does is give me a look like “well, you’re screwed.”</p>
<p>Not really. My dad, a Penn Alumni, calls it Penn. Head over to the Penn forum and see what everyone there is calling it. Regarding your actual problem, go in for extra help. For extra studying material try using websites like Hotmath and Interactmath. I would post links but I think those are against the rules. Also try Khan Academy for great video explanations. I use those websites to get through my math classes in high school.</p>
<p>Calm down. Your grades are skewed to your strengths unsurprisingly. That’s great! Top colleges look for students strong in all areas mainly because they have so many applicants. That doesn’t mean you are not a worthy candidate to any of them.
You need to emphasize your specific interest of study in your essay.</p>
<p>I think you can pull it up. I’m taking Geometry now as a Sophomore, also I want to go to UPenn. I have a 96% in that class now. Things just come to me easy, but I also do more questions than I’m assigned in the book. It gives you extra practice, and you’ll be prepared for your future quizzes/test. Good Luck :)</p>
<p>gouf78-thanks!
fantasyvesperia-that’s really cool! I really want to pull it up, but there won’t be anymore quizzes/concept evaulations/tests/notebook checks to bring my grade up. All I have is the midterm, and it looks like that will determine my fate of getting into UPenn.
suprafreshkid-my friend has a 96% in honors geometry, and she helps me out, but she hates to stay after school…</p>
<p>I tried making an appointment with a tutor but no one is available on saturday
damn…I’m so screwed it’s not even funny!</p>
<p>You had a lot of B’s your freshman year…
But I’m a horrible math person! So I usually buddy up with my friends to study before a test. It REALLY helps, esp if they’re ubber smart;)</p>
<p>smarty1201-the B’s in my freshman year were due to excessive piano playing, haha. I was capable of wayyy more now that I look back on it…but I spent 8+ hours a day playing the piano and didn’t study at all. now I’m really working my ass off and the B’s that I have now are in my weakest subjects: math and science. I’m really, really hoping that I don’t get a C for the semester. IDK what I’ll do…</p>
<p>and I despise going for help in my geometry class, because the way she organises it is absolutely ridiculous. the class is swarming with students, and she bounces from student to student…</p>
<p>“mrs. -!”
“mrs. -!”
“mrssssss.- I need you!”</p>
<p>I hate that. plus, she rushes me out of her way a lot, which doesn’t help.</p>
<p>bad teachers+math mixes together like oil and water. Esp. if you’re horrible at math!!</p>
<p>I personally don’t see how you would need to study for a geometry test in sophomore year in the first semester, but that’s just me and I thought geometry was boring. </p>
<p>If there is nothing else that’s going into your grades for the rest of the semester I don’t get what you are hoping to accomplish by asking us what you can do? We don’t know your teacher or how their class works. </p>
<p>But if I were you and I were struggling, I’d just study the material. Go to like khanacademy.org and watch videos on what you are struggling with (that website is a life saver). Or just google whatever you’re having trouble with and put help in it or explanation. What is it that you are struggling with?</p>
<p>“I personally don’t see how you would need to study for a geometry test in sophomore year in the first semester…”<<< Hmm, I’m not sure what you mean by that. </p>
<p>I don’t know…I’m not really asking you guys what to do (yes, despise the “What should I DO???”), I really just want to know whether or not a C will make or break me considering my past grades…</p>
<p>[Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org/]Khan”>http://www.khanacademy.org/) ? I know…weak… but it sounds like you’re a sophomore, and your strength is not math. So, make it a strength. If you need supplementary books to help you practice, buy them - bn.com has tons of them.</p>
<p>When I had geometry, my teacher knew his stuff so well that he could not teach it because it came so naturally to him. Top that with a very heavy chinese accent, his class was harder than it should be. Now onto the advice. The fantastic thing about math is that it is a practice makes perfect thing. </p>
<p>To study for my tests and final, I took the book and section by section, then did the odd problems because those answers were in the back of the book. If I did poorly on the majority of the problems, I would go to youtube, type in what section it was (“interior angles”) and there were sooooo many videos to choose from. The videos can be better than your actual teacher. After learning the concepts from videos, I’d redo the problems and try to find problems and answers online. One I understood the section, I’d move on. </p>
<p>It’s not nearly as time consuming as it sounds! Math is fun, put some music on in the background, and practicing math is actually very relaxing. If you do this for your midterm, your grade will be higher :). OH and you’re not screwed, you have plenty of time to bring up your GPA if you don’t ace the midterm.</p>
