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<p>I have a problem I was hoping some of you could help me out with.</p>

<p>I am in NY, and am currently self-studying for the German Regents Examination at the end of the year, because a scheduling conflicted prevented me from taking German 4 at my schoool so I dropped the course this year, and am going to skip it and proceed onto College Level [Quasi-AP] German 5 next year, but I need to get a 100 on the regents first. </p>

<p>I study hard for it, but it is secondary to my actual preformance in school which is difficult due to a truly rigorous set of AP teachers, [No joke classes - 80% of the class fails] and thus it's quite difficult to mantain a 95. Along with SAT studying and all those other tests. I have extremely excellent skills in German however, which is why my counseler knew that self-studying the regents would be quite easy for me. </p>

<p>My dad on the other hand, a native speaker of german, seems obsessed with wasting hours upon hours trying to force me to learn german material unrelated to the regents. It is beginning to frustrate me extremely and begin to hurt my grades. He emailed my counseler and I'm afraid that due to his un-intelligent knowledge of college admissions and queer expectations that he might ruin my chances and also my counseler recommendation with his repeated crap-talking. He is a complete fascist about it. Any idea on how to tell him to cool it and shutup?</p>

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<p>"Dad, cool it and shut up!"</p>

<p>Hahaha just kidding. Tell your dad you understand the importance of learning all of the extra tidbits of German, but that right now you need to focus on the Regents so you can get to the next level. Would he not agree to that?</p>

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<p>I really can't give you advice about your dad, unfortunately.</p>

<p>But I can say that I was in a similar situation with my German courses. I decided to skip German 4, take a summer course, and take German 5 this year. This approach is a lot more efficient than independent study, although it does cost a good deal of money.</p>

<p>Also, getting a 100 on a language Regents is no easy task (although I did it last year in Spanish), as a loss of just one point would bring it down to 99. I'd hate to be your situation, where you have to get a 100.</p>