High School Semester Exams

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Are a bitch.
I've owned every test so far and today I met the, by far, hardest math test I've ever had to complete. I had to stay like 15 minutes after the bell to finish up and I still guessed on more than enough. Then tomorrow I have Spanish 3 and Chemistry, 2 arguably hard tests as well. I have most of Spanish 3 down so I don't need to study as much, but Chemsity is gonna kill me. I have to do some serious studying for that test. And also, I have to finish up a project that's 20% of my exam grade. I'll start studying around 7 and I probably won't finish up until 10:30.

On a positive note though, the exam for Human Geography AP, my hardest class, I owned with a vengeance. 100%. :danceclub Brought my final semester average up to an 84. :tu If I do good on tomorrow's tests, I'm gonna have all the confidence in the world for the 2nd semester and will no doubt finish up the rest of the school year with kick-ass grades.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Dude, you are going to study 3 hours for a semester exam and you are complaining??? 3 hours of study for a test is nothing.

When I finished high school, our final exams were on 2 years worth of work (years 11-12) and I studied for 6 weeks to prepare for them. They were 50% of the final grade. Your end of semester exams are a piss in the ocean compared to that.

3 hours of study... pffffft.

However, good luck.

[td4mvp21]

Dude, you are going to study 3 hours for a semester exam and you are complaining??? 3 hours of study for a test is nothing.

When I finished high school, our final exams were on 2 years worth of work (years 11-12) and I studied for 6 weeks to prepare for them. They were 50% of the final grade. Your end of semester exams are a piss in the ocean compared to that.

3 hours of study... pffffft.

However, good luck.

Yeah you must have forgot most of us live in America, education isn't exactly a top priority here.

[Steve Irwin]

You should be like me.

Keep your grades at 95%ish and when finals roll around you can not stress out. Even if I get a D on the final, I still get an A. Works every time... :smokin

[dallaskd]

haha we just started back up Tuesday. Once your in college your gonna wish you only have to study for 3 hours..

[kingsfan]

Dude, you are going to study 3 hours for a semester exam and you are complaining??? 3 hours of study for a test is nothing.

When I finished high school, our final exams were on 2 years worth of work (years 11-12) and I studied for 6 weeks to prepare for them. They were 50% of the final grade. Your end of semester exams are a piss in the ocean compared to that.

3 hours of study... pffffft.

However, good luck.That sounds like England. Do you have O and A levels there?
The difference is our finals were 100% of our grade so if you were having a bad day or sick, you were basically fucked.

[ashbeeigh]

I hate that high school kids take their finals after they get back from the holidays now. I was so stressed out towards the end of the "year" worrying about my grades to even get excited about the holidays.

Good luck to everyone who has them though!

[KidCongo]

Dude, you are going to study 3 hours for a semester exam and you are complaining??? 3 hours of study for a test is nothing.

When I finished high school, our final exams were on 2 years worth of work (years 11-12) and I studied for 6 weeks to prepare for them. They were 50% of the final grade. Your end of semester exams are a piss in the ocean compared to that.

3 hours of study... pffffft.

However, good luck.

yep starting year 11 in 2 weeks, might have to study for tests now instead of crusing in year 10

[makedamnsure]

I finished semester exams yesterday. We take 3 exams the first day, 2 exams the next and 2 the last day as well.

I had an A in all my classes but screwed myself out of an A for the semester by not studying for exams like in my AP US history, GT/AP English and AP Spanish classes. I think I did fine on physics (I thinkkk) and I feel I did good on my algebra II exam.

Here's to hoping. But who cares really because now I have a 5 day weekend and will be going to San Antonio tomorrow!

[baseline bum]

High school sucks. Too much homework and too many assholes. Things are so much better in college, when you don't have to do the same problem 50 times over for homework every night, and you don't have to deal with people who have nothing to lose or don't care about anything.

[FromWayDowntown]

haha we just started back up Tuesday. Once your in college your gonna wish you only have to study for 3 hours..

I don't know whether to laugh or weep.

[baseline bum]

haha we just started back up Tuesday. Once your in college your gonna wish you only have to study for 3 hours..

I don't agree with that. College values reasoning and logic over memorization in many classes, unlike most in high school. For instance, you take your first calculus final and all you really have to remember is the definition of limit, integration by parts, and maybe the mean value theorem. Everything else can be easily derived. In high school algebra you're taught to memorize all of these formulas for solving quadratics, formulas for logs, and so on, without being shown how to figure things out for yourself. In high school, it seems like you're looking at everything from 10 feet above whereas in college you're taught to see the big picture.

I can't think of any class in major in which I ever studied more than 3 hours for a final (unless you count time spent on a take-home final), and the worst grades I've ever gotten in major were a B+ in Java programming, an A- in probability theory, an A- in computer networking, and an A- in Discrete Math.

[polandprzem]

hmm 3 hours in collegeis daily rutine (mainly ) here in poland to be successfull

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I've owned every test so far and today I met the, by far, hardest math test I've ever had to complete. I had to stay like 15 minutes after the bell to finish up and I still guessed on more than enough.
I got a 91. :)

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

That sounds like England. Do you have O and A levels there?
The difference is our finals were 100% of our grade so if you were having a bad day or sick, you were basically fucked.

We don't call them O and A levels but it's a similar system. Differs slightly from state to state, but most use a 50% continuous assessment, 50% final exam weighting over the final 2 years of high school. From years 8-10 it's generally continuous assessment, and then semester exams. Basically the exams get longer and harder as you get closer to uni, which makes sense because 3 hour exams are de riguer in uni.


Yeah you must have forgot most of us live in America, education isn't exactly a top priority here.

Ironic, that, since education is the fundament to technological advance.

[kingsfan]

^ and they're all essays too, I'd never heard of multiple choice till I moved here and I'm like wtf? This is too easy.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Hell yeah. Multiple choice is a small part (10-20%) of some exams, like economics and chemistry, but otherwise everything is paragraphs, essays, etc. English had 4 essays.

You're a Brit, kingsfan? I spent a year as a Rent-a-Roo at Felsted School betwwen Chelmsford and Stansted Airport in Essex, and traveled a bit in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Good times. :)

[kingsfan]

Hell yeah. Multiple choice is a small part (10-20%) of some exams, like economics and chemistry, but otherwise everything is paragraphs, essays, etc. English had 4 essays.

You're a Brit, kingsfan? I spent a year as a Rent-a-Roo at Felsted School betwwen Chelmsford and Stansted Airport in Essex, and traveled a bit in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Good times. :)yeap, born and raised. I lived all over England and Scotland, spent most of my time in Hampshire but we moved a lot and I even lived in Paris for a year. It's nice to visit but you wouldn't want to live there. I know Chelmsford area but it's been a long time since I was there.
Rent-a-Roo? I don't think I even want to know :lol