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Last year I created at least 30 kinds of fish. I loved my P.I.M.P. fish, who would hunt down lady fish. Whenever they mated and had kids, the program would play a Barry White mp3.

Needless to say, I recieved tons of extra credit for that one.
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Re: AP Tests Loom

I have my AP US History Exam this Friday... and I am nervous.

Probably the main reason for this is that I didn't even realize that it was this week until my history teacher started talking about to our class this morning and yelling at the class because not a single person has handed in the $82 check to our guidance counselor! I personally find the $82 charge a tad bit high for a standardized test, but I suppose the end result is worth the money (that is, if [1] I score high enough to get credit and [2] go to a school that will accept the credit).

I am also feeling somewhat unprepared because my US History class isn't technically an AP class. But since it is an honors/humanities level class, we are given the option of taking the test (which most of the class, at least this year, has chosen to do). Luckily, our history department has put together a series of review sessions for the test after school as kind of a refresher course. Unfortunately, I had to miss one because of Atlanta, and I am missing today's because of a robotics meeting. Hopefully I will be able to catch the last session, which is tomorrow.

Is anyone taking both the May 7th SAT this weekend and the AP US History Exam? I am not (I take the SAT in June), but many of the students in my history class are. Talk about standardized test stress!

Good luck to all who are taking AP tests! (...I need some luck myself I think)
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Re: AP Tests Loom

Calc AB is out of the way now, and it wasn't too terrible. I left a few blank, including parts of free response questions, but I'm hoping I did well enough to get some credit from UMich.

English Lit is Thursday morning, and I'm not worried about that one at all. Really, what can you do to prepare for that one beyond knowing the novels you've read and being prepared to write about them?

Physics C, though, could be nasty. My class hasn't gone over the electrical areas of the test AT ALL, and I'm not quite confident about the mechanical section either. Even after two years, I still have issues with tension, but that's probably due to my stupidity more than anything else.

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My teacher is infamous for being impossibly hard and moving darned fast.

Which is why we know every little nook and cranny of that test.

If you don't know electrical by now, I wish you luck. It will be next to impossible to get a high grade without it. If I were you, I'd do nothing but study until the test.

Sorry for the bad, ominous news.
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Well here's a more enlightening view. I never had Calculus in high school but now that I have it in college I think it is pretty easy for the most part. It is just limits, derivatives and antiderivatives. For limits, there are only a few rules for evaluating them. You just need to see if this goes up to infiniti, then does that go too or does it go down to zero or some other number or what? For derivatives you just multiply the coefficient by the exponent and subract one from the exponent. For antiderivatives, it is just where derivatives come from. So you add one to the exponent and divide the coefficient by the exponent. I would mention integrals but that is pretty much just more antiderivatives. So, BAM! There you have it, Calculus. Easy.
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Well here's a more enlightening view. I never had Calculus in high school but now that I have it in college I think it is pretty easy for the most part. It is just limits, derivatives and antiderivatives. For limits, there are only a few rules for evaluating them. You just need to see if this goes up to infiniti, then does that go too or does it go down to zero or some other number or what? For derivatives you just multiply the coefficient by the exponent and subract one from the exponent. For antiderivatives, it is just where derivatives come from. So you add one to the exponent and divide the coefficient by the exponent. I would mention integrals but that is pretty much just more antiderivatives. So, BAM! There you have it, Calculus. Easy.

That's month one of the AP Calc class and test. You forgot to mention the... other 5 months?
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I'm taking AP Spanish Language tomorrow, and AP English Lit on Thursday. Whatever happens, happens, I'm just dying to be done and graduate!!
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Ouch. Our school has not had a person fail AP Chem in 10 years, and something like 40% get 5s.
Oh man, seriously? I was the only one to get a 5 at our school last year, and there were only two 4's... (I go to the same school as Pelan).

I took World History today, and whoo did it throw me for a loop. I think the multiple choice was so simple that the questions were all stuff that went under my radar. Still, my first two essays felt very solid, so hopefully I can still get a 4 or 5. Actually, my third essay was about 50% made up . Supposedly almost everyone gets 4's or 5's after this class, so...

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What's IB? I keep hearing people talking about it but I've never seen it.
IB is the International Baccalaureate program. It supposedly has international appeal if you're planning on going to school out-of-country.
The IBO's program is very ironic, in my opinion, because it requires volunteer hours (when you require it its not really volunteering....). I'm not a big fan of it because, aside from the things I've heard from my friends' parents, its been pushed too hard in our school and we dont even have a very good langauge program (one of IB's focuses is internationalism and thus language), having only 3 different, western languages at present.
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That's month one of the AP Calc class and test. You forgot to mention the... other 5 months?
Ah yes. To quote my teacher, "There's four topics covered in Calculus, Limits, Derivatives, Integrals and Integrals." So really Calculus can be summed up in a few words, but I do have agree there's more to it than that...and I have this insatiable urge to go type examples, but I swore myself completly off giving any specifics to the effect of math for the next 42 hours or so until I can discuss those multiple choice questions. And the AP Calculus AB exam is over. I enjoyed the class though, and color me crazy, but I really did just take calc because I thought it was a cool topic.

I took AP Bio last year (as a sophmore), 'twas intense, but I really enjoyed it and did well on the test. AP US and AP Phsyics B await me yet. I am looking forwards to see what topic the DBQ is, but I fear that I might be getting the five I want...AP US is notorious in these parts for tacking a 3 or 4 onto your grade sheet.

Next year I'm looking forwards to, hrm, AP English, AP Calc II, AP Stat, AP Econ, AP Psych (as long as I study up over the summer), AP Comparative Gov (again, studying outside of school witha friend for this one), and AP Music Theory. Oh, AP spanish might happen, depends on my time commitments, but it'd seem a waste to nix it after 5 years of study already. I can already hear my desk breaking under the weight of the books I'm going to need for those classes .
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IB is the International Baccalaureate program. It supposedly has international appeal if you're planning on going to school out-of-country.
The IBO's program is very ironic, in my opinion, because it requires volunteer hours (when you require it its not really volunteering....). I'm not a big fan of it because, aside from the things I've heard from my friends' parents, its been pushed too hard in our school and we dont even have a very good langauge program (one of IB's focuses is internationalism and thus language), having only 3 different, western languages at present.
it's allowed to be present in each county of your state..it's a program that can be started as a preschooler up to 12th grade...

you have to test out in math, science of some sort, English, a foreign language, and 6th subject (can be like art, computer science, anthropology, etc.)
and you do cas--which is creativity, action and service

service is u'r volunteering
action basically yeah working out, running around...getting exercise
creativity..yeah...using other side of u'r brain

each school has a different program but guide lines are the same...test out in may for each subject with different amount of tests aka papers and you have to write certain things or do certain things for each class...internal and external assessments....internal while in class...external end of the year tests...

hope that helps a bit....it's all around...

go IB!!!
either love it or hate it basically...some say it's like ap..tad different tad the same..lol

getting the diploma yes can allow you to go out of like the us for school since its a recognized standard diploma for the world rather than a normal us high school diploma
it helps for us in Florida if we get our diploma full bright futures scholorship money if we don't already qualify for it and like ap can get you out of a few classes if you score high enough... 4 is passing 7 is the highest...

and i'm almost out of it lol...few more tests to go and i'm done...i hope i get my diploma pray that i do for me
if your in IB i feel u'r pain....

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For all of you on the east coast talking about how fast your class goes, keep this in mind: My school did not start until September 7th. So yeah, we go at a desperate pace all year.
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For all of you on the east coast talking about how fast your class goes, keep this in mind: My school did not start until September 7th. So yeah, we go at a desperate pace all year.

September 9th, with a June 29th graduation date. I have a month and a half, not EVEN, before I go off to college.

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-prays for Tiffany and other IB students- i keep hearing from the IB Juniors and Seniors about how apprehensive they are about their exams coming up... luckily i'm not a junior or a senior yet, so no IB exams for me, but i do have AP Government and Politics coming up next week, along with AP Macroeconomics. I'm not that worried about Gov't, i just need to refresh my memory since i took that class back in '04... we actually ended up skipping an entire unit on Public Policy because of the hurricanes, but other than just having to learn a few new things this week, i think i'll be okay.. i'm a little more worried about Macro. its my first period class, and due to robotics and various other things that have come up (like SHARP interviews and doctor appointments), i've missed a lot in that class, so i've got quite a bit of catching up to do in the next... 9 days or so. (yay for Princeton Reviews though! ... thats what i'll be trying to memorize in the next few days..)

ooo.. i also heard that same thing about the AP Language exam... the people i talked to who took it said it was easy, but in a completely different format than how they had practiced. i guess maybe this year the College Board decided to change things?

i guess i'm kinda lucky at my school... seniors graduate in about a week or two, and my last day is May 24. but then again, my school year starts in early August, so that sorta gives us a somewhat headstart in studying... however trying to make up lost time because of hurricanes every other weekend isnt easy.. especially when the make-up days end up in the wrong semesters >.<


good luck on all of your upcoming tests (AP or IB or even just normal exams) everyone!
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Re: AP Tests Loom

took english monday (alright give or take an essay and a few MC), took calc today (good except i ran out of time and i KNOW i got a few MC wrong). taking ush friday, sat2s (chem and phys) saturday, physics monday, chem tuesday, microeco thursday and env sci the next wednesday and right after that i'm starting my finals and then i finish off with the sat exam in june.

yea it's a bit hectic. nervous? no. i don't believe in being nervous. you go, you take the test and you come out. you can't change your performance. but for now i'm going to *start* to study for ush and finish my sat2/ap prep for phys and chem. i don't care about micro or env sci. besides, i'll have a whole week to study for env sci. but next year'll be better, i'll be taking easier aps and have better teachers =)

good luck everyone. godspeed.
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