<p>Quarter tests started yesterday.
I hate this! The tests are way too hard!
Yesterday, the chemistry test was like 20 pages long. The questions were vague and annoying, It was nothing like what we had been doing in class.
Today we had Math. It sucked as always. Who knew that limits could be so gay? The questions were too long and there was no way I could finish the whole test in an hour! I barely finished on time and left 4 problems!
Tomorrow I have English and physics..grrr!</p>
<p>hmmmm..... exams</p>
<p>we only have 2: Midterms and Finals</p>
<p>but yea, they do suck! We get 2 hours though, which isn't really any better because it just means more work!</p>
<p>^Same here. I'm guessing that stuck-on-1700 is on block scheduling. Semester exams save me. It's so easy to get 100's on them....the teachers give us study guides that are practially the same as the exams lol.</p>
<p>I love my district's exam policy. If you get an A (93+) for each quarter and an A on the semester exam, then you don't have to take the final. :D</p>
<p>.... I honestly don't think limits can have a sexual orientation. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>It was just an expression, Anniushka.
Okay, the Physics test sucked soo bad! It was so ****ing hard! 75 multiple choice questions ALL with some kind of equation invloved. And we were not allowed to use our calculators!! They were all confiscated till the end of the test (and the cell phones too.)
But English was a piece of cake. Just a reading passage and grammar and one poem. Really easy; I finished it in ten minutes!</p>
<p>We only have quarter tests for engineering but you get out of it if you have an A.</p>
<p>Well, it's not like calculators are exactly necessities on physics or math exams anyway, it doesn't really make that a whole lot quicker unless you write really slow.</p>
<p>My Precalculus teacher won't let us use graphing calculators on our exam. That should be fun.</p>
<p>In my precalc class we are not allowd to use calculators on any of our tests or quizes. Our teacher worked under the top names in cosmology at princeton and he said that he never saw anyone use a calculator so we shouldn't either. It's actually great once you get used to it. I do better on the quizes where we can't use a calculator than on the ones where we can. You learn not to be dependent on a machine.</p>
<p>[I know I'm pursuing an off-topic train of thought, and that is not a welcomed message board behavior, and no, I wouldn't want the same thing to happen in a thread I started, but God, I do feel strongly about this.]</p>
<p>Oh, yes, stuck-on-1700, it's "just an expression"--a very sadly pervasive and insidious expression that vilifies homosexuality by equating the word "gay" with "stupid"/"disagreeable." You may not mean to demean homosexuals, but your diction does just that and strongly suggests subliminal or outright hatred of homosexuals. Again, I know that many, many young people use the word to mean what you said about limits; I'm not accusing you of homophobia, but I believe that if you gave a damn, you'd have made a different choice of words.</p>
<p>I do give a damn, but nevertheless, I'm going to stop here. I apologize if I've been a bother.</p>
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<p>On some of my calculus exams I really haven't used a calculator at all--especially the chapter test about finding derivatives and such. It feels so nice to not need a calculator... although I do still use one to do necessary calculations, especially at the end of a problem. The teacher doesn't accept answers in radicals or with pi left separate or anything like that, I don't think. He's also against simplification, so answers that could simplify down to something I could do in my head... well, that doesn't happen. We're taught to just "crank it out" when it's still big and ugly, and that method is made much easier by using a calculator.</p>
<p>We have a fall final exam and a spring final exam in every class, except for APs (only a fall final). The best part is that if you end up with a 92.5%+ in a class, you can choose to skip that final. Limit one final.</p>
<p>well, Bio was a piece of cake. But it had so many mistakes. My favourite was:
"in the given figure"... where the figure is missing.</p>
<p>I personally found it amusing to see my biology teacher's e-mail accidentally printed as one of the answer choices for a question.</p>
<p>FINALLY! Quarter tests are over!</p>
<p>GRADES</p>
<p>All out of 100.</p>
<p>Chemisty: 86
Biology: 88 ----> this one really ****ed me off. :mad:
Physics: 86
Math: 96
English: 96
Ecology: 100</p>
<p>you did good in ecology. haha. </p>
<p>you did really well it them all. really you did. </p>
<p>yay for me cause i didn't have to take any :). </p>
<p>why did bio **** you off whereas you got lower in chem and physics. just wondering. </p>
<p>and isn't it hard with so many sciences. i have two and its hard (but one is all about horses as an elective so its okay).</p>
<p>edit: maybe if i'd actually read it i would know. is it because you thought you did better in bio?</p>
<p>Stuck-on-1700 you ended up doing fine, so don't worry.</p>
<p>the grades were certianly not what I was expecting but, yeah I guess they're fine.</p>
<p>yea, maybe it is just me, but my finals are always the best grades, for exams that is. </p>
<p>maybe by then you know the teacher's style. </p>
<p>you never really answered my question that i thought i answered, but i wasn't sure that it was right so i wanted you to answer it and tell me that i was right. </p>
<p>^that wasn't confusing or anything right? haha. yup thats how i talk. haha.</p>
<p>Wth, I have like 2 random A-'s in easy classes while I'm getting A's in all my AP/honor's except for a B in AP Econ. Slacking off too much :/.</p>
<p>^Haha, last year I thought I was finally going to finish one year without ever making a B, but no.....I got a B in Journalism somehow. I had a high A in the class, and on the final I got every question right, but I didn't have enough time to finish the short essay response. So, I got 79 questions right out of 80 with the 80th question being the small essay.....****es me off. I guess missing one question was enough to bring my 98 down to a B.</p>