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As for IB, I really don't have any idea. With APs and IBs, 2nd year IB students are averaging 10 exams a year, and they're hitting the Outstanding APs even without FIRST events... |
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I've always been able to reschedule exams if needed, given a school-sponsored activity. It's really easy if you have 2 or 3 people who need to take the same exam at a different time than everybody else--I've had that a few times for Aero Design. Sometimes it'll be early and sometimes late, depending on professor. It'll almost always be a different exam, though.
Non-school-sponsored activities, though, are not as easy to work around. |
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Ergo, the team should attend the championships. The effects last longer and are further reaching than worrying about an exam. In the absence of extenuating circumstances, even a [bachelor's level*] college exam that takes more than a few hours to prepare for is an exam for a class the student should fail due to lack of understanding. FIRST should not count as an extenuating circumstance. |
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With IB there is no option to take the test on another date. Its a now-or-never deal.
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You can't be late to an exam, either, as IB has strict policies regarding when you may begin the testing process - to within a 30-ish minute long period of time (all exams are taken on the same exact day at the same regional time all over the world, so IB is very particular about when an exam may start in a given te zone) As far as students' abilities to sit multiple higher-level high school exams and attend CMP: if a student is committed to their studies throughout the course of the entire year, then I should think they'd be capable of attending an event such as CMP without suffering any adverse issues taking their exams (with maybe the issue of falling asleep during the exam - I was exhausted after I got back...) EricH brought up the point of seeing how many students would be able to go to a competition given that exams are so close... I mentioned to my parents yesterday about how close CMP is to exams for he 2011 season and they told me that if I were to have had my exams so soon after a competition they would not allow me to attend. If there are not enough students allowed to attend the competition based upon the pretext that exams are so close (or any other reason), it would seem sensible to decide not to attend CMP... If not enough students can go to participate as a competing team, then it's not worth doing... That doesn't mean, however, that a small group could not attend just for the experience and for the conference. -Rob. |
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The exams that need to be done during the week of May 2nd are:
For everyone's information Monday: AM Chemistry AND Environmental Science (if you have both you can reschedule one or the other....) PM Psychology Tuesday: AM Computer Science A AND Spanish (see above) PM Art History Wednesday AM Calculus AB and BC PM Chinese Thursday AM English Lit and Composition PM Japanese AND Latin Friday AM German AND US History PM European History and Studio Art Note: Early testing or testing at times other than those published by the College Board are not permitted under any circumstances. Coordinators should order late-testing exams for students who would like to take exams that are scheduled for the same time. Last edited by Bob Steele : 19-07-2010 at 14:01. |
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Other considerations:
1. How will jet lag affect you? Coming from CA, our team had its sleep schedule turned upside down, and wasn't acclimated to either time zone. Result: insomnia & exhaustion for several test takers, resulting in poor scores. (Pro tip: disallow texting near the "edges of the night", as it does weird things to both the texters but and their roomies.) 2. If part of the team attends, how will that will the missing pieces affect the rest of the team? One year, our head programmer, head mechanical person, and head driver couldn't attend. Even though the team had the numbers to "be a team", the absence of key personnel tipped the scales so that even those students who had planned to go eventually decided not to. |
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