i duno about other countries but its test season in america. We have to take this test that they give you 2 hours to finish but i finished in like.....less than half that time....is that a waste of mai school time or what?

Well our testing schedules are based on grade and what section you take. The whole day is a normal day, since one/two grades could be testing another 2 have a regular schedule. I like it that way though, so at any time after we finish we can just resume our regular classes like normal. The AP exams are the annoying ones though, just from the practice ones I did all week were bad lol Lots of date memorizing, and you gotta know just loads of informaion people will never ask you in your whole entire life :dead:

I hate finals... I have them this week. Chemistry on Monday was brutal because my professor isn't capable of writing a decent test, Honors Physics on Thursday which will be ridiculous, like the class always is, Calculus Friday morning, might not be so bad, and Introduction to Ethics on Friday afternoon- shouldn't be too bad.

I am in some ways glad the semester is over... after this week I'll have 4 months at home (well, working, hopefully) before another semester starts...

although that is 4 months at home- with my parents :P I like being at school where I have more freedom (at home I can't go to the sleaziest fast food place on the face of the planet with friends at 2 in the morning lol), and being a matter of feet away from friends...

I have one final, but I'm not caring about it at the moment... maybe it's senioritis, who knows :P

i have already had computer science 115 (passed with flying colors), english 110 (still dont know), statistics 245 (gonna be a close call), and i have yet to do math 116. its coming on friday. stupid integrals.

anybody else wanna know how much work (if you dont know work yet, just move to the next post) it takes to pump 8 gallons of water out of a cone with a mechanical pump?

or does anyone want to be able to prove the volumetric equations for 3 dimensional objects (sphere, cone, cylinder, cube etc etc)

or the area underneath of a graph? or why old people smell wierd? Nor do i. But thats part of the class.

Note: I may not have found out about why old people smell wierd

I have my history exam tomorrow ('tis a practice AP exam), and then next Friday I have the AP US History exam, then the Tuesday after I have the Environmental science exam. The last week of May (gasp) is our school exams. I won't have to take the history exam because I'd have done it all ready, and I won't have to do the AP Enviro. final project/exam because I've got A's in that class all year (school exam exemption policy.) and I don't think I'll have to take the math exam because all the rest of the class are seniors, and my teacher said that I probably won't have to take it. (The seniors get out of school early.)

well I found out my chemistry final exam score: 72. out of 180. I'm not happy. I didn't think the test was much more difficult than the first two exams, and if anything I felt better prepared for it- which is why I don't think the score is right. I'll need to try to get ahold of my professor really soon and look it over. it WAS a difficult exam (the average was around a 90, or 50%) just because all his tests as well as his teaching are awful, but I've done above average on everything else, so the final score just doesn't seem to fit.

he sent out an email earlier today saying he wasn't happy because people missed a lot of basic questions so he wouldn't be as generous with the curve as he otherwise would be- but later on he sent another email saying he determined the scale and about 20% of the class with get an A or A-, which doesn't seem that bad. I'm right around the average with the score he posted for the final exam, so hopefully the average grade will be reasonable. but if he sets it at a C I still may want to retake it to improve my QPA...

I hate tests :P

Yayy shockertwin, sounds like you're taking calculus :P I loved that class, until the final exam.. A's on all the tests until I blanked out the last few weeks of school. :(

I've already taken all but one of my finals, and my last one is GEOLOGY at SEVEN THIRTY AM TOMORROW. Then I get to move away from this horrid town and have a nice summer :) Thank goodness for college semester shortness.

i havent taken an ap class yet, but unless i change my mind, i am taking ap government next year, i was going to take ap calc, but changed my mind, gee i wonder why, i started slacking in math, and only math. i would take ap english, but, i needed to take a class this year that i didnt know, so i cant, and, im not taking science classes, so thats that. oh and i was going to take ap computer science, but my counselor recommended with what im going into and with the grades i have i should take the microsft network administrator certification class at our local unviersity, its a 2 hour blcok at the beginning of the day, and if i pass the test at the end of the year ill get my certificate which will be great for what i want to major in and a job during college :D

in all honesty, certificates mean nothing.

having the paper alone won't get you anywhere- employers will want to see experience above all else. that's why I'm planning to do a co-op probably starting next year, because the university helps with placement and they have a whole bunch of employers that they work with that want to hire students from my school, and once you get that first job and start getting the experience, nothing else will really matter. the co-op employer will likely look at grades, but the next employer down the line will look at your experience at that company, not what you did. they'll care that you have a degree and that's about it. if you have certificates on top of a BA/BS degree, it might help, but random certificates alone probably won't really.

oh, and I got a C+. I'm still not happy- hopefully I'll be able to squeeze enough extra points out of the final exam to bump me up to a B- because that also gets me a 2.75 instead of a 2.25- there's only a .25 difference going from X- to X to X+, but to Y is a .5 increase, so it would help a lot.

our second set of midterms are coming up in 2 weeks or so [beginning of the 4th quarter of the year!! :O] but i only have real midterms/finals in physics.. they're so hard! oh and i have midterms/finals in french, but i don't have to study for those cuz i've taken private french lessons :hehe:. my other 2 classes [ceramics & health] have nothing. wow it sounds odd that i only have 4 classes. next year i'm going to die around AP test time, i'm going to have 3 APs [out of 4 classes :/] and then junior year i'll have 4.. and then 3 senior year again. i'm genuinely afraid for my.. life :( i'll probably end up not taking some ;) i don't think taking 3+ APs and being on swim & waterpolo is possible.. plus piano too.

yeah i need to rethink my schedule!

Thank God my school is part of the Essential Coalition, we don't follow the mid-terms style or have really "big" testing at all, excluding AP exams and the official national tests (PSAT, etc).

This experience will probably flip me in college though, where there's big testing. :(

O man, here in Canada I haven't had our final tests yet :).

Yah...and I remember at the Phillipines there were 10 hours of school a day, and if I'm not mistaken they gave you 2 hours a test. It's crazy, also cause that's exactly enough time the finish the whole friggen thing...

Yeah.