The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details- Page 135

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:38pm

Lexi, we would be perfect roommates. It's too bad that freshmen can only room with other freshmen.

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:50pm

I know. Life's unfair.

I should probably start studying for the AP English exam.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:53pm

How do you study for an English exam like that? I don't take AP, so I have no clue, but aren't they just like the state tests where you get a question and you have to write an essay?

[Marlene]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:54pm

No, no, no Siamiese. I just plan on applying to NYU...still have not been through the college process yet. Fall '06 is when it all begins.

But based on what you've just said...you've more unless fulfilled my ideal roommate requirements. *le sigh*

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:56pm

Well, it's mostly knowing how to structure your essays and knowing all the terms, especially at this point. I think I know all of them, but I just want to be 100% sure.

The AP English test is comprised of a multiple choice part (interpretation of passages/reading comp.) and essays.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:57pm

That sounds like the English Regents, only with actual standards.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:58pm

I am NOT looking forward to the English exam. I despise essay writing.

...At least I know it has to be better than my exam today. *sniff*

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:59pm

I didn't study a lot; I fell into that trap. I did miserably and felt really, really f*cking dumb.

It depends which English exam; some require familiarity with a certain number of books from class, or whatever.

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:00pm

Haha! I'm so happy I never had to take those (Regents, that is).

The baseball game I've been looking forward to is still in a rain delay.
Updated On: 5/2/06 at 08:00 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:03pm

haha, my mom is too weird. I... yeah. Weird as hell.

I'm full, yet I am still eating.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:04pm

The regents aren't that hard, aside from the Math A which I failed twice. Whoops.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:04pm

I always thought the Regents were a waste of time - the tests my teachers gave us during the school year were about 10 times harder. Of course, I knew to keep my mouth shut about that around my friends who freaked out over them.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:08pm

The Regents weren't hard until they started becoming the "new" Regents. I almost failed the first version of the new physics Regents. It was the hardest test I have ever taken.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:13pm

My Math A regents was really easy. I have to take the Bio one in a few weeks.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:29pm

The Bio one is insulting. You could probably pass it without even taking the class.

[Marlene]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:33pm

The APUSH exam needs to be sporadically moved to next week. I can't deal. I need another weekend. Go figure that I'm cutting school tomorrow so I can study...it's a half day, one of my teachers is out, another doesn't really teach anymore because she's on vicodin, and I have a French class with Sophomores who are all taking an AP tomorrow and thus won't be in class. Okay, I'm such a nerd, I will shut up now.

I've never actually been bothered by the Regents before, until Physics came along. *sigh* I'm pretty sure I can pass it if I review. Math B was quite a pain last year...and it was rescored because I guess they didn't want too many summer school kids. I also took the really impossible Math A Regents like 4 years ago and passed in 8th grade. (Then it was rescored, and I got a 99.) I still remember that this kid retook the Math A Regents because he wanted a 100. o_0 He either had a 98 or 99. Math makes me cry now...Calc is hell, and thank goodness I'm dropping it for Statistics next year.

Damn HS requirements...I'm already done with science according to the NYS "advanced" regents diploma. Why oh why can't they just go, YAY FOR EARTH SCIENCE!!! and make my gross grades from physics disappear?

They still don’t have AP English at my school...

Bio Regents...errrrm, I didn't do very well in the class. (Science isn't my forte with an exception to Earth Science and Chem)...basically I flipped though that blue Barrons review book for a couple of hours for like three days and pulled a 92.

Are there lab components to any of the Regents? I'm blanking, I remember there being one for Earth Science...or did they phase them out?

The World History Regents is really insulting...I walked in basically without studying...and I was like missing a 1/4 of the curriculum because I took AP Euro. So I basically had really scare knowledge of Asia and like everywhere else but Europe...and given that I did literally nothing in AP Euro, just look at who the teacher is...the HW was "optional" in a way so I never did it. The essay question was like "talk about two major events in world history!"...and a really BS essay on global warming that I sort of made up from snippets of a PBS documentary and general knowledge. Updated On: 5/2/06 at 08:33 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:36pm

I think there are still "lab practical" portions, no? But you complete them earlier in the year, usually.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:37pm

The only AP class left at my school is AP Calc. Other than that, all of the advanced classes are IB.

I got a 52 the first time on the math A, then a 63, and then an 87. I don't know if I'm going to take it again. I might.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:38pm

Marlene, I know how you feel about the math. It was my favorite subject and the class I was best at all the way through AP Calc, and then I got to college and struggled through Calc II and III.

I wish they would have offered AP English instead of making everyone take Humanities senior year, but that's never gonna happen.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:39pm

Mandi, did you take the Math A that year there was the big controversey over it?

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:41pm

Yep, that would be the 52.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:41pm

My brother took the Math A the year that it was unusually hard and they had to rescore it because so many people failed. He was in the 70s before the rescoring and it bumped him up to the 80s.

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:42pm

I'm pretty sure that I would fail any math regents that I attempted, so don't feel too bad, Mandi.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:43pm

I think that 52 was *after* they bumped it too. *rocks*

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:44pm

Mine must've been ridiculously easy then because most people got high 90's (not me though).