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Tomorrow I return to “school” from “spring break.” Not that much will change, it’ll just go from me binge-watching Frasier all day along and playing guitar to me doing school work all day long and then watching Frasier and playing guitar. 

Ah well, the positive thing is that I’m basically guaranteed to get an A+ in APUSH because we’re no long taking tests and our entire grade is based on group projects that are easy As and then once we’re done with this Unit, it’s just studying for the AP test, and then after we take that it’s just movies for the rest of the year, baby and then after that I’m officially done with APUSH and can smoothly sail into AP Econ senior year

It was back to ‘work’ today, from home that is. Went for a walk at lunch time, went to IKEA at 4.30. Watching Gordon Ramsay on Masterchef now. Will go for a bike ride tomorrow at 6am. Waiting for the coffee shops etc to open in hopefully a few weeks…

@meanmistermustard said

lovelyritametermaid said

Tomorrow I return to “school” from “spring break.” Not that much will change, it’ll just go from me binge-watching Frasier all day along and playing guitar to me doing school work all day long and then watching Frasier and playing guitar. 

Ah well, the positive thing is that I’m basically guaranteed to get an A+ in APUSH because we’re no long taking tests and our entire grade is based on group projects that are easy As and then once we’re done with this Unit, it’s just studying for the AP test, and then after we take that it’s just movies for the rest of the year, baby and then after that I’m officially done with APUSH and can smoothly sail into AP Econ senior year

  

@lovelyritametermaid, What’s APUSH, AP and AP Econ?

  

RN explained it perfectly:

Ron Nasty said
Ooo, I know this one!!! Not the first time it’s cropped up! AP stands for Advanced Placement, sort of equivalent to the UK’s A-levels, taken at that same stage in education (except A-levels are based on coursework and exams, and AP – so far as I understand – is just, until this strange year, exam based). APUSH is Advanced Placement United States History, so I’d guess AP Econ. is Advanced Placement Economics.

Yeah, so the whole year of learning is basically preparation for that class’ AP test, which everyone takes in May and each test is scored on a scale of 5 (which we still get to take this year, but it’ll be a shortened version for each and online). If you get a good enough score on the test, then you have the opportunity to substitute it for college credit and get out intro-level courses/general ed. courses in college (it depends on the college, however, what test score gets you what. For example, there are colleges that accept a score of 3 or higher for credit/class substitution, however, a lot of colleges, like the ones I’m looking into, will only accept 4 or 5 for college credit. Also, sometimes the score won’t even get you college credit and doesn’t mean anything: like this one college I was looking at if you got a 3+ on an AP English test you could apply for an honors course but not for college credit.) Also AP classes just look good on your transcript and they’re weighted on a 5.0 scale for GPA instead of a 4.0 scale, so they’re terrific GPA boosters, even if you get a B, and they’re challenging but rewarding because they go more in-depth and prepare you for the hard work and time that college courses demand. Also, not every high school offers all the AP classes, which super-sucks for the students. Like if you go to a smaller, poorer school, as I do, you only get the option to take a handful of AP classes do to the school not having enough teachers to teach them (like we only have AP Physics 1, which is just college intro-level algebra-based physics, at my school because we only have one physics teacher, whereas a lot of bigger more wealthy schools have AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C: Mechanics, and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism). Here’s a complete list of all the AP courses, which my high school only has 10 of because of our small size 🙁

This year I’m taking AP U.S History and AP Language and Composition (which is basically a college course on rhetorical writing and analysis), next year I’m taking AP Micro/Macro Economics, AP Physics 1, AP Calculus AB, and AP Literature and Composition, so I have my plate quite full ….but it’s worth it because they’re courses I’m genuinely interested in and I really want that college credit (and good thing that my number one pick accepts college credit for all of these, given I get a score of 4 or higher lol) 

@50yearslate said
My school also doesn’t have a ton of AP courses but I don’t mind particularly as there are plenty that I am interested in– I have no interest in electromagnetism in relation to physics or whatever so I’m not especially heartbroken that it isn’t offered. Plus, you can take the test without actually taking the class (although it’s not recommended) which I’m actually doing this year for one class… thankfully they’re all open-note now :).

Damn, I didn’t know that. What AP tests are you taking?  

Also, yeah the only classes that I’m upset about my school not having are the physics courses, AP Music Theory,  AP French (though we also don’t have any honors french classes which also super sucks), and all the AP art courses (especially AP Art History).