Who else is in/close to finals week?

Post by **dos.azn** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:30 pm

good luck man!

Post by **Arresty** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:49 pm

Femto wrote:Jesus Christ, this is insane!

I won't be sleeping tonight nor tomorrow if I am to finish ONE of my final projects. This is BS...

That is why I love finals week.

I hate that. Its the same with me though. I probably won't be doing much sleeping.

Post by **calvin** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:06 pm

i've got five more weeks of class before finals. that is one of the downfalls of having quarterly terms, we don't leave school until june

Post by **Malvado** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:19 pm

Well i have some finals this week and others later next month.

Post by **Necromancer** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:39 pm

I've got finals in 2-3 weeks.

Post by **Ayanami** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:08 pm

Final projects for art classes suck so much more than academic finals. I was only in art school for a semester, but it was way more stressful than academia. Hope ya get through it Femto and good luck, because I didn't get through mine when I was going to art school...

Post by **Femto** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:11 pm

Art school is teh suck...

I just took a 5 hour nap, and that's all the sleep I'll be getting until at least tomorrow at noon.

Post by **hadi** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:14 pm

finals start on the 12th. In the UK finals are worth 70-80 % of the grade -mine at least- so no one could imagine the pressure I'm under right now...

Post by **calvin** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:54 pm

hadi wrote:finals start on the 12th. In the UK finals are worth 70-0 % of the grade -mine at least- so no one could imagine the pressure I'm under right now...

what does the 70-0% mean? 70.0 or 70 to 0?

Post by **Tempest** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:19 pm

hadi wrote:finals start on the 12th. In the UK finals are worth 70-0 % of the grade -mine at least- so no one could imagine the pressure I'm under right now...

Well, my finals for some of my classes are worth 40% of my grade, so I feel some of the pain. In those classes (Mainly math) the first exam is worth 25%, the second is 35% and final is worth 40%. The only thing homework and quizes do is rasie or lower a grade by a third.

Post by **Arresty** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:25 pm

I like classes like that. Mainly cause I don't like to do homework, and I generally do worse on the tests in the middle of the term then I do on the final.

Post by **Ayanami** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:27 pm

My class that is all test I am acing right now, can't say the same for the class with homework. I hate homework.

Post by **Arresty** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:36 pm

Homework is the work of the devil.

Its only purpose is to keep us busy and that pisses me off.

Post by **Ayanami** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:40 pm

Arresty wrote:Homework is the work of the devil. Its only purpose is to keep us busy and that pisses me off.

Word.

Post by **dos.azn** » Tue May 03, 2005 2:14 am

AP Calculus BC exam in approximately 10 hours now, god im so not ready

Post by **Kazure** » Tue May 03, 2005 2:40 am

Oh man, Good luck Dos. A bunch of Kids who are taking the test tommorow weren't too happy today either.

But seriously, best of luck to you.

Post by **Ellen** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:40 pm

What are APs? o_O
You funny Americans. Exams are over (for universities anyway) I've even gotten most of my marks back.

And even in high school, I never had an exam less than 30% of my mark. What's the point of a final if it can't break you? Especially considering university finals are worth anywhere from 40-80% of your mark.

Post by **Devil_Dante** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:19 pm

My finals are in the middle of June. In Belgium, school runs van September till the end of June. And we have school from
Monday & Friday: 08:30 - 16:00
Tuesday & Thursday: 08:30 - 16:50
and Wednesday: 08:30 - 12:00
it's just too much.
lol my exam for Informatica (computer lesson) runs from
08:30 - 14:00. --> Great headache, therefore it's always on a friday.

Post by **Arresty** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:36 pm

This semester I went to class from 1:30PM to 4 Monday and Wednesday, 1:30-5 Friday, 1:30-3:00 on Tuesday, and 1:30-6 on Thusday(3 hour lab). You noticce a trend. In case you couldn't guess I am not a morning person, have truoble getting to my 1:30 classes on time.

Post by **Tempest** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:22 pm

Ellen wrote:What are APs? o_O
You funny Americans. Exams are over (for universities anyway) I've even gotten most of my marks back.

And even in high school, I never had an exam less than 30% of my mark. What's the point of a final if it can't break you? Especially considering university finals are worth anywhere from 40-80% of your mark.

AP stands for Advanced Placement. Basically really smart high school seniors who are ready willing and able to do college level work. Most of the time it is done senior year, but for some reason (I think due to the time in school which regular US history is done) AP US History can be taken as a Sophomore. The classes are taught by high school teachers, and are done to be equivalent to a freshman college level class. Near the end of the college semester, the AP students take the AP test, a nation wide standardized test. Grades of 1-5 are given out (1 being lowest, 5 highest). And colleges can accept credits for students who have gotten good enough grades of AP tests. They automatically give that person credit if their score is high enough. Most colleges accept 3's for credit, but some (like mine

) only take 4's and up.

I took 3 AP tests: AP US History, AP Spanish, and AP Literature and Composition (AP English). I got a 3 in History a 3 in English, and a 1 in Spanish (In my defense, the test was SUPER hard. There was a guy in our class who hard transferred the past year from Argentina where he had lived all his life and he said it was really hard for him). So there you go.

Post by **Devil_Dante** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:23 pm

We in Europe, don't work with AM and PM, so I have no clue what u talking about:D

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:28 pm

Yeah, we use the much cooler 24 hours military system.

Btw. 1-12 AM = 1-12 | 1-12 PM = 13-24

Post by **Ellen** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:31 pm

Are the APs mandatory to apply for college?

Post by **Tempest** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:17 pm

Ellen wrote:Are the APs mandatory to apply for college?

No. Not at all. They help if you want to get into a really good university, or any university for that matter. Even just taking the AP course looks good on a college application. You don't have to take the AP tests themselves. They won't affect your grade in the class itself because it's still a high school class. One of my teachers made the deal that whoever took the AP test would get an automatic 100% on the next test we took in the class. I've heard teachers say that colleges sometimes think higher of C+'s and B's in an AP class than an A in the regular version of the course.

Also, if you get good enough grades on that and/or placement tests, you can skip certain "first-year" classes and take higher level classes sooner.

Post by **Kazure** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:33 pm

Yup, but don't be fooled. AP classes are a shitload of work and way different from regular Highschool classes. I'm currently a Junior and I'm currently taking AP Biology, US History, and English. In my school, some AP Classes range for one full year while some two.
Just in my opinion, the Science classes are much more work. However, they are much more intersting than any History or Literature. But thats just me.