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Just wondering, since it's that season again.  Speaking of which, I took my French AP today, and it was humiliating (since I don't follow directions well).  Anyone who has taken a test where you need to speak into one of those old tape recorder things has my sympathy.  For that speaking part of the test, I was given 60 seconds each to answer four general questions, and barely took up half that time.  I feel sorry for my reviewer, since he'll hear so much silence he'll think the tape is broken!  Worst was the 40 minute essay that the AP people give 7 pages for you to write... I barely filled 1 1/3!  Meh, all four of us in my French class had the same bad experiences though, since we're all equally incompetent, so it's fun in retrospect.

Anyone have tragic AP stories (or whatever their European counterpart is)?   :)  

Thats why you don't take french....its that simple

if AP's are finals then no, i haven't taken them yet...well..whatever they are i haven't taken them...

that was the worse exam i had to  take last year, just gets your nerves up

What's an AP?

If the AP you're talking about is that same AP that I know of, then it means 'Advanced Placement'
in short it's taking college level classes in high school

AP classes are classes you take in high school that count for college credit (Units)
If they don't count for college credit, then it just looks good for when you apply for college/university because it shows that you were successful in taking harder then normal high school courses.

well i thought thats what it stood for...but i don't think we have to take a test for it :blink:  i dono, i'll ask my sister

Yes, smi, that's correct, except you forgot about how long and painful the final tests are. :P

In my school, if you take an AP course, the national test at the end of the year is mandatory.  <_< Speaking of which, I have another one tomorrow, then Thursday, then next Tuesday!  /dances  What fun!  :stake:  

mandatory to pass :P
I wouldn't know though...I'm special :alien: I never took any AP classes.  at the time I didn't know they counted for college credit, but even if I did know, I still probably wouldn't have taken it :paranoid:
I just feel sorry for those who have to take the exit exam (on top of all the other shit they have to do)
*looks at under
do you have to take it under?  I know they pushed the year back, but I don't know how far (indefinitely perhaps)
(not like you wouldn't pass it of course)
*knocks on wood
just in case you understand...
 :sheep:

Hm. I never did anything like that.

I know of some people who managed to do GCSEs (Year 10-11/high school final test things) a couple of years early, because their parents were teachers or something, but I think they still had to do them with everyone else anyway.

calc bc
stat
lit
apes
govt
econ
= +3.0 on the GPA...
school gets out june 21st, but my school year's over on may 19th

only one this year... AP US History.

6[/i]?!?!?!?!?!?!  And what's that thing about your GPA?  :huh:

I take AP French (language), Stat, English, and EnviroSci.  Speaking of which, how was the stat test...  I'm guessing you took it today?  Question 5b on the part II was incredibly impossible, no?  :)  

That's coming up for me this Friday.  I already chewed my way through AP English Language, thankfully.  Good luck, under.

Next year is going to be interesting... AP Gov, AP Latin 4, AP English Lit.  Hoo boy.

/laugh

I had fun on today's English Composition one... except I had to do 55 MC questions in 1 hour and 3 essays in another 2 hours.  You don't know pain until you take the English AP.  LOL  

That's English 3, right?  My hand wanted to fall off after those essays. :P  

The worst part was I had chosen the work of literature to use for the 3rd essay question before reading the question, and then needed to make Hamlet fit a rather hard theme after writing half my intro paragraph.  LOL  

I'm done.

Did you even have to do work?  :P  

I'm not supposed to discuss things on the test or else I would have to be reported to the Office of Testing Integrity and subject myself and my school to offical investigation.  :hmmm:

Whatever. I screwed up on #6, which was the case study that had the dual-binomial variables. If I remember correctly, #5 was the one with the confidence interval, part (a) to draw the lines, part (b) to find the two CIs and interpret. CI = x +- (t*)(s/sqrt(n)). To get t*, you'd have to refer to the critical t values chart in the formula sheet; I used a program on my calculator and got t* = 2.306 for n = 9 and C = 0.95. So, "I am 95% confident that the true mean of lead on children's hands who played indoors/outdoors in urban/suburban areas is between CI-lower and CI-upper. This means that 95 out of 100 intervals will actually contain mu."

I'm taking 6 because they're all free; the county covers the $82 per test this year which is :cool: Our county adds 0.5 to any class in which you take the AP exam. So at the end of the year, if I got a B in, say, stat, my grade on my transcript would show as a B but my GPA would be a 3.5. Other counties inflate GPAs by weighting AP classes with +1.0 <_<

Mother sucker.  California sucks.

very bad timing and choice of words Under, it's mother's day weekend... <_<
and my mother's b-day ;)  

hey that was yesterday. OKAY?  jeeeeeeeeez.

NO!  NOT OK!  I WILL EAT YOUR HEAD FOR THAT!

 LOL  

Did you guys know that if you fail out of alg. 2 because you're too lazy to do the homework they pop you into intro alg  :P  

No, but that's interesting.

Are we discovering this from personal experience?  LOL

P.S. Only 1 more AP to go!!!  And it's tomorrow!!!  Yay... er... ugh.  Mebbe I should get some sleep now...  LOL  

oh hey i had a bad AP experience ....  

AP Chemistry... i was almost half way through the exam and i got a bad case of umm... diarrhea.  so i left the exam early so i could go spend some quality time on the can.  i ended up getting a 2.  :(

only 14 exams to go! ...  <_<  starts monday

Today's theme: poverty sucks.

Tomorrow's theme: Anarchy.

Aww, that sucks :(

Yeah, but hey trying to cram 12 chapters into 6 weeks should make it fairly interesting even if it is the basics.  And I still have AP gov homework to keep me from getting bored.

Wheeeeeeeeeee... all done with AP's.  And this one I think I got a 5 on (which means it balances out my probable 2 in French).  Now all I need to do is retake it for a final exam grade in class, and I'll be done with finals for the rest of high school!!!  :D

/laughs at all the people who still need to take tests.  :P

/me never has to take another test or exam or sit in a silly classroom ever again. :P

/me beats SS with a textbook

I haven't taken any finals yet...
I just finished my second midterm for math
I still have 3 or 4 quizs for math
Math HW
Physics quiz and final
VB.NET final and HW (both easy)

the last day of classes for me is the 26th I think...

Tonight's theme: Marginal propensity to study < Change in total grade * effort multiplier

I have until June 9th to get out of school
suuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccckkkkkkk

My tests are done, but I need to stay in school until the 25th of June.  :P :(

SS- yes, but you need to work.  LOL  

ARe you freaking serious?!??~!@!?

LUZR

june 30th :(

Yeah, but:
1) Works pays money.
2) Work is (mostly) ColdFusion coding.
3) ColdFusion coding is fun.

So I'm getting paid to enjoy myself. :P

starting 2morow we're off for 5 weeks then we have to go back on the 20th june for another month

*is feeling very very sad right now* :mellow: :( :cry:

DARN YOU CALIFORNIANS!!!!!  :angry:


:P

so are strippers.  Maybe you should go into that

But people watching the strippers need to enjoy themselves too!  LOL  

I'm gonna have to agree with Lanair here.

sadly we they dont get paid to do that though

HAHA YOU SUCK! We graduate on the 21st  :D  

Of June?

Yes  <_<  

take the last weekend of may off and go to the fanime  :D
I'd offer to other people, but I think she's the only one that's near by. ;)  

Whazzat?  Maybe I'll fly down to California to come if it's interesting. :D

:D it's a 4 day convention where a few 1,000 come to watch/buy/sell/dress up and other fun stuff having to do with anime :D
I've been going to the Fanime Con (http://www.fanime.com/) sinse I was in the 8th grade  :hehe:  

oh right i read it like famine not fan - ime  clever

:P
ya, I've done that before

fanime
fan  ime
f anime
fan anime
'by the fans, for the fans'

I bombed my Physics quiz. :(   The quizes are 75% of the whole grade...  but it was an optional quiz, so it's all good I guess... I still have an overall B for all my quizes ;) (it's not bad, it's good, it's just not really good), I would have to get a D or lower on the final to make any difference in the grade for the class.

only a week and two days left till Fanime :hehe:
sorry Under, I don't have a hotel room :grass:  :P
though I could get one!    ^^;
j/k <3
/me is excited

And of course you have your priorities set.  :rolleyes:

BTW- What's an optional quiz?  :huh:  

Smi, is it kind of sad that I'm Asian and I've never watched anime in my entire lifetime?

Maybe, it just means that you haven’t had your brain rotted out yet XD
The most common complaint that I’ve heard is that a lot of people that have just started watching anime want more time to watch it, and that it’s hard to make sure that they do their work before wasting time watching anime.
So it’s a mixed blessing, so to speak.  On one hand you haven’t been able to watch some very entertaining shows, but on the other hand you haven’t had the tremendous distraction that of which is called anime. :cool:

Lanair, an optional quiz is just that; a quiz that you don't have to do  :D
My instructor has it such that he'll give the best 7 quiz scores out of 8.  If you do the optional quiz then that's just one more chance to get a better score and bump off the next lowest
Meaning, you can bomb a quiz and not have it kill your grade (you just have to be really good for the rest of the quizzes)
 :hehe:
Which is totally cool!!!
/me points out again that the total quiz grade is 75% of the total grade
the other 25% is the final...
If you've missed the next grade by a little, he'll bump you up (ex: B+ to A) if he thinks you're a good student (attend class, good labs, good questions).  The human factor; Otherwise, it's all by the numbers.

Wow... I hope I get a lot of teachers like him!  :thumbs-up:

Oh, and anime isn't nearly as effective at making people skip work than computer games (coughWoWcough).  :D

this is true

and yes, I did not think of things like EverCrack and Wow... but for someone who doesn't play those, anime might very well work :cool:
otherwise you probably are smocking crack
one week left!  :D  

I have a 93 in Oceanography :(

/random  :D

Why on earth do you take oceanography?  LOL  

think of it this way, 'It's still an A... of sorts'. ;)
 :sheep: unless it was 93 out of like...200... :unsure:  

It's actually a B+, but I need an A to get exempted from exams... and I don't think we're going to have any more grades this quarter :<

Solution- bribe the professor (or just see if you can redo work/get an extra assignment).  :)  

I'd vote 'NO' on the bribe part... ;)  

a male professor eh?

It all depends on the type and amount of a bribe.  :D  

Well, tomorrow begins my last AP test... yes, I know AP's ended like a month ago, but I need to take this 3 day test for environmental science (since I opted not to do an independent project).  Man, I can't stand my teacher.  <_<

On the plus side, only 17 days until graduation!  :D  

go Under go!
go Lanair go!
 :sheep:  my the sheep be with you :hehe:  

i had 5 exams today  :(  

Lanair.  I feel sorry for you.  My last day is tomorrw =P

Hehe... mine too.  I mean, the last day of our 3 day exam. :D

Physics 4C (Light and Heat): B
Math 19 (Discrete): A
Intro to VB.NET: A

I think that went well :cool:  

Finals next week :o

NBA finals too  :rolleyes:  

I've got four finals coming up this week and next week, I've got it easy :cool: :D

1 left this thursday

Only... 2 more days of school!!!  And to think, my brother has 4 regents coming up in the next 2 weeks... poor sap.  :D  

Heh... I've been out since the end of May.  You guys are STILL being tormented by sadistic educational systems trapped in hell working?

that is so mean <_<
what am I saying?!  I got out in mid May too!! :)  LOL  :hehe:
 :sheep:  

you two don't count :hmmm:

my first exam is in about an hour, got pre-calc today.

Bastard.

You know Arkanor.  We are hecka close.

Pre-calc?  That isn't a regents course, right?  :miffed:

Oh, and how did it go?  :)  

*does a dance* all over and the last one wasnt so bad, no matter what everyone else says  :rolleyes:  

Pre-Calc is normaly Trig and the very first bit of calc if there is time left.

:P  :sheep: lick the sheep! lick the skeep!

Bah, I know.  I was talking about Regents'... though you down there in California wouldn't know what these "celebrations of learning" are all about.  :P  

'Learning'? :huh:   What's this 'learning' you speak of? ;)  

nah, it's not a regents, and I think I aced it :) but I'm not gonna try to jinx it or anything :paranoid:

I took my spanish final (fith year, took regents last year) on wednesday, and I got a 95 on it (the teacher just graded it right there since there aren't that many students :D)  I'm a bit disapointed with that though, to be honest.  

Now I've got US History on tuesday and Physics on wednesday. I really want to get a good grade on the physics one because he's gonna replace the sixth marking period grade with the regents grade and I missed a bunch of work this marking period  :miffed:  

*begins mumbling angrily about electrons and photons*

Um... the sixth marking period?  :huh:  

yeah, a bunch of schools around here switched to six marking periods after complaints from some parents that they weren't getting updated enough about how their kids were doing.  But now all of the kids are complaing that there isn't enough work per marking period so if you do bad or forget to turn something in, it hurts your grade more :hmmm:

so, in other words, in that respect, our schools are really messed up :angry:

My advice- graduate.  Then you don't need to deal with it.   :D

On another note, my brother had his Global Regents today... er yeserday, and for the thematic essay, he wrote about the Bubonic plage and Rwandan genocide (the topic was global events/issues, and most of his class used deforestation and overpopulation).  Sigh.   LOL  

and to think, all I had to do was take a few tests :cool:
My C programing class just started yesterday, and here you guys are still talking about finals <_<
meh.. :mellow:  

done! finished with everything :D

I hate it when they put information before the question and then they have the question.  I missed something on the physics test today because of that :hmmm:

But I love when they ask a question, and a later question has the answer incorporated in it.  LOL

Oh, and I GRADUATED TODAY!!!  I'm free from high school for the rest of my life!!!  :D  

w00t i graduated 2 days ago  :cool: angp was a blast too, i gambled $50k into $244k O_O

congrats lanair :)

W00t! :cool:  

congrats, what you gonna do now?

Relax before various pre-college activities (i.e. Wilderness Adventure, band camp... yeah yeah :P, etc).  ;)

Hmm... mebbe I should be like NS and get some easy money.  LOL

by whoring yourself out?

I was thinking gambling, but that could work too... :D