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Let's just delay WOGL until everyone is on vacations! Oh wait, some people actually have jobs with only one month per year of vacations. I guess that's still ok, WOGL can happen during the month of August, regular season AND playoffs! Oh wait some people travel\go on vacation...
There's no use, its as much a disavantadge to you as to any other person. -
All of my classes are "Advanced Placement" nothing really different
just the kids in your class aren't dumbasses.
To MyAWM: You are correct sir.
it's a lot different. it's a college level introductory course which requires a lot more knowledge than a regular high school course. not to mention if the college accepts your AP score then you will get credit for that class aka saving you money and time -
it's a lot different. it's a college level introductory course which requires a lot more knowledge than a regular high school course. not to mention if the college accepts your AP score then you will get credit for that class aka saving you money and time
Well I'm in grade 10 right now which is my first year in high school.
I'm currently in AP math and teacher told us that we just go a little
bit beyond the "average" but finals exams are the same for all grades
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Well I'm in grade 10 right now which is my first year in high school.
I'm currently in AP math and teacher told us that we just go a little
bit beyond the "average" but finals exams are the same for all grades
not matter what.
lol AP math? exactly what AP math class. your school probably has a different term for honors or accelerated... for AP you learn a lot more material than a regular class and you have to take the AP exam at the end of the year which is administered by Collegeboard. if you don't have to do any of that then you're not in an AP course but more or less an honors class or something like that.
9th grade is first year in high school 0.o -
Well I'm living in Alberta, Canada and here school is like this:
K-6 is Elementry
7-9 is Junior High
10-12 is High School
For my school they offer (eg. Science):
Science AP
Science 10-1
Science 10-2
Science 14
oh then that's the thing. AP in Canadian schools means something completely different from AP in US schools. your AP is more like the honors classes that we have for kids with like 95+ averages. -
oh then that's the thing. AP in Canadian schools means something completely different from AP in US schools. your AP is more like the honors classes that we have for kids with like 95+ averages.
I guess you can call it an "Honors" class even though I only have an 87% in Math. -
BowDownToMe wrote: »I'm in calculus in Manitoba, Canada (I'm in grade 12). I'm pretty sure it's called AP but not entirely, it's basically to prepare people for calculus in university.
They offer Calculus at my school to but it's just called Math 31. -
there is no such thing as AP algebra 2 lol. There is AB Calculus, BC Calculus and i guess you can group AP Statistics there too...
Hate to blow the whistle, but ALL states have a different governed education system. So he MAY have an AP Algebra coarse of sorts, but it COULD just be a Pre-AP...You never know.
All these crazy classes they have now...They didn't have most of these advanced classes when I was in school. Just the basic honors math, science, history and english. The system has changed... -
Au_Courant wrote: »Hate to blow the whistle, but ALL states have a different governed education system. So he MAY have an AP Algebra coarse of sorts, but it COULD just be a Pre-AP...You never know.
All these crazy classes they have now...They didn't have most of these advanced classes when I was in school. Just the basic honors math, science, history and english. The system has changed...
AP Classes really aren't any harder material wise then their non-AP counterparts. The grading system is normally a bit less lenient, and they want abit more quality in reports/tests/homework.
I would say the biggest flaw with AP classes is the GPA boost they provide. AP Courses are on a 5/4/2/1 scale instead of being on the standard 4/3/2/1 scale. So just buy taking an AP course and getting a A or B pads your GPA. This led to people in my glass graduating with ~4.6 GPA or something.
In all honesty if you do not plan on going out of state, do Advanced Credit instead of taking the AP tests. The AP tests only give you completion and not GPA. If you do advanced credit instead of AP in Calc/Chem/English/Foreign Language/History you can walk into freshman year with around a 3.7 and ~25-30 credit hours of GPA. This will help prevent you from losing scholarships if you have a mediocre semester freshman or sophomore year.
I refer to Advanced Credit, but it is called many things depending on which state you live in. Pretty much you pay reduced tuition to a State University (In my case University of Missouri) and when you pass the class it shows up on a college transcript from that university.
No matter what Calc you take in highschool, you are gonna wanna take Calc2 and Calc3 at the respective college you go to. There is so much that gets left out at the highschool level.
You might think your hot ****, but then a tricky interval or series problem will pop up in one of your other classes and you will be like "Damn why did I go straight to Multivariate Calculus and skip Calc 2 ;("
If anyone has any questions or want opinions on what to do feel free to message me on xfire: kingdoop.
If you play the system right you can milk your university for scholarship money, just cruise on through, and end up 100% with a job when you graduate. I have a few friends who graduated last fall who had a 4.0 GPA in college (engineering degree) and did not end up with a job.
Life's tough right now, but play your cards right and you'll be laughing down at the peons. -
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Not gonna lie....I was confused 50% in, haha. I made it through school on athletics and social-ability (and in some cases summer school). My priorities were all messed up in some eyes, but everything panned out in the end. Went to college, similar to a tech school. Was in my career less than a year following graduation. Things are HELLA advanced now...insane. I don't think I'll be able to assist my daughter in anything to be honest, luckily her mother advanced her education... -
Au_Courant wrote: »Not gonna lie....I was confused 50% in, haha. I made it through school on athletics and social-ability (and in some cases summer school). My priorities were all messed up in some eyes, but everything panned out in the end. Went to college, similar to a tech school. Was in my career less than a year following graduation. Things are HELLA advanced now...insane. I don't think I'll be able to assist my daughter in anything to be honest, luckily her mother advanced her education...
Between textbooks and google, you can figure out most problems with pure brute force. It really just comes down to knowing tricks with certain computational programs (matlab, minitab, matchcad, etc.) to solve the hard stuff.
At the undergraduate level, all the information is out there. It is just finding and applying the right stuff to what you are trying to solve. -
i took the equivalent of an ap for chemistry and for me it was:
2 course of half a semester each
reg grade 10 science+ reg grade 11 chemistry+ half of grade 12 chemistry.
all of them obviously being though at a higher level and more in depth.
i ended up failing since i sleeped in class, never studied once and ditched over 50% the classes. o well
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AP Classes really aren't any harder material wise then their non-AP counterparts. The grading system is normally a bit less lenient, and they want abit more quality in reports/tests/homework.
I would say the biggest flaw with AP classes is the GPA boost they provide. AP Courses are on a 5/4/2/1 scale instead of being on the standard 4/3/2/1 scale. So just buy taking an AP course and getting a A or B pads your GPA. This led to people in my glass graduating with ~4.6 GPA or something.
In all honesty if you do not plan on going out of state, do Advanced Credit instead of taking the AP tests. The AP tests only give you completion and not GPA. If you do advanced credit instead of AP in Calc/Chem/English/Foreign Language/History you can walk into freshman year with around a 3.7 and ~25-30 credit hours of GPA. This will help prevent you from losing scholarships if you have a mediocre semester freshman or sophomore year.
I refer to Advanced Credit, but it is called many things depending on which state you live in. Pretty much you pay reduced tuition to a State University (In my case University of Missouri) and when you pass the class it shows up on a college transcript from that university.
No matter what Calc you take in highschool, you are gonna wanna take Calc2 and Calc3 at the respective college you go to. There is so much that gets left out at the highschool level.
You might think your hot ****, but then a tricky interval or series problem will pop up in one of your other classes and you will be like "Damn why did I go straight to Multivariate Calculus and skip Calc 2 ;("
If anyone has any questions or want opinions on what to do feel free to message me on xfire: kingdoop.
If you play the system right you can milk your university for scholarship money, just cruise on through, and end up 100% with a job when you graduate. I have a few friends who graduated last fall who had a 4.0 GPA in college (engineering degree) and did not end up with a job.
Life's tough right now, but play your cards right and you'll be laughing down at the peons.
AP courses have a 1.1 curve aka if you get a 90 in a class you actually get 99 averaged in. if you get an 80 you get an 88 averaged in, etc... Classes in High School only take like half an hour a day to get a high GPA where as AP classes have a lot more material at a higher education scale resulting to a lot more time spent studying. i took four APs in NY so idk if it's the same in Missouri but i'm pretty sure it is considering the AP exam is administered by Collegeboard. Most colleges do not even accept some AP exams and if they do only look at whether you get a 5 or not.
So i have gone through the first semester and i have to say that chemistry so far is a lot easier than what we had to know in AP chem(they didn't accept my AP credit considering it's a necessary course for pharmacy students)
AB Calculus covers Calc 1 in college while BC Calculus covers Calc 1 and Calc 2. There is no AP math course which allows you to get credit for Calc 3 and not one college/university will let someone take Calc 3 before 2... so generally speaking you wouldn't be able to take multivariable calculus without understanding the fundamentals of univariable.
and i never heard of this "Advanced Credit"... here we have credit available for accepted AP exam scores and CollegeNow courses. Honestly CollegeNow is a better way to get credit and i didn't realize so until my friend received the same amount of credit with a lot less effort(just requires to pass the class and no final exams) -
AP courses have a 1.1 curve aka if you get a 90 in a class you actually get 99 averaged in. if you get an 80 you get an 88 averaged in, etc... Classes in High School only take like half an hour a day to get a high GPA where as AP classes have a lot more material at a higher education scale resulting to a lot more time spent studying. i took four APs in NY so idk if it's the same in Missouri but i'm pretty sure it is considering the AP exam is administered by Collegeboard. Most colleges do not even accept some AP exams and if they do only look at whether you get a 5 or not.
So i have gone through the first semester and i have to say that chemistry so far is a lot easier than what we had to know in AP chem(they didn't accept my AP credit considering it's a necessary course for pharmacy students)
AB Calculus covers Calc 1 in college while BC Calculus covers Calc 1 and Calc 2. There is no AP math course which allows you to get credit for Calc 3 and not one college/university will let someone take Calc 3 before 2... so generally speaking you wouldn't be able to take multivariable calculus without understanding the fundamentals of univariable.
and i never heard of this "Advanced Credit"... here we have credit available for accepted AP exam scores and CollegeNow courses. Honestly CollegeNow is a better way to get credit and i didn't realize so until my friend received the same amount of credit with a lot less effort(just requires to pass the class and no final exams)
Like I said, you are gonna wish you took calc 2 at the college level once you get into calc3. There's a difference between understanding the fundamentals and being ready for hard multivariate problems. I took tons of AP classes in high school, and honestly they were all jokes. The only difference is the teachers didn't hold your **** for you like in the non-AP classes.
Advanced Credit is kinda the equivalent of dual enrollment. The AC classes I took in highschool were college credit through the university of missouri. ie: They show up on my transcript and factor into my cum GPA at college. It just like taking summer classes at another university. You transfer the credits into your main school, and you are done with that class. -
Like I said, you are gonna wish you took calc 2 at the college level once you get into calc3. There's a difference between understanding the fundamentals and being ready for hard multivariate problems. I took tons of AP classes in high school, and honestly they were all jokes. The only difference is the teachers didn't hold your **** for you like in the non-AP classes.
Advanced Credit is kinda the equivalent of dual enrollment. The AC classes I took in highschool were college credit through the university of missouri. ie: They show up on my transcript and factor into my cum GPA at college. It just like taking summer classes at another university. You transfer the credits into your main school, and you are done with that class.
ah well i doubt New York has an Advanced Credit option otherwise i would have heard about it... and my curriculum for 6-year pharmacy program does not incorporate anything above Calc 2 so it doesn't matter to me. For an Engineer that's a different scenario
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ah well i doubt New York has an Advanced Credit option otherwise i would have heard about it... and my curriculum for 6-year pharmacy program does not incorporate anything above Calc 2 so it doesn't matter to me. For an Engineer that's a different scenario
pharmacy is stupid hard
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