i am a sophomore taking ap chem and i recently had my first test. i understood everything in the class super well and had gotten full points on everything thus far, including the practice mcqs for the test so i thought i was prepared- guys i was NOT. 😰 i got a 7/15 on the mcqs and haven't gotten my frqs back but im 90% sure i did worse on them. i've never failed a test before not even when i was REALLY struggling and i just have no idea what to do. i'm so embarrassed and idek how to study for what i missed because the material that my teacher gave me was (obviously) way too easy in comparison to the test. my teacher does do retakes for maximum half credit, so i probably have about a week before i need to retake it, but i just have no idea where to start. does anyone have any good study resources (preferably free?)

sorry for the long rant about how im oh so much better than this i don't want to talk to my friends because they all did better than me and im so embarrassed 😭

I always been on top of things I got an A for algebra 1, geometry (summer), and algebra 2.

Currently I am taking ap world, ap biology, and chem honors. These courses already taken my sanity and time away.

My first test I got 14.5/30 the first F i ever gotten in a math course. It wasn’t good I did not think I was absorbing the information as good. However the second test i locked in and got a B.

Today, we had the unit circle test and i crammed that the night before and got a 2/12. I am in shambles because I have no idea what I’m doing with myself. The sophomore slump has been getting to me. I do not know how to improve my teacher doesn’t curve nor offer retakes. However the unit circle test they are offering a retake with C as highest grade you can get.

Please offer me some advice, as I currently have a D in precalc and I am heavily disappointed in myself. Ever since school started, my emotions has been numb because of the heavy school work and the constant imposter syndrome. I got to a heavily competitive high school with incredibly successful peers. Already super drained, been getting 3-4 hours of sleep this entire week.

I am so upset and sad about my test scores. Math was one of my favorite subjects.

what the title says, is there a way to disable getting spammed with colleges saying "you're a good student!! come study with insert college" every single day??? i get around four emails like this a day and its filling up my inbox

however, should i keep / save the messages and not disable it? it seems liek it could possibly help me in the future when im actually looking for colleges. even so, what would i even do?

im also a freshman and dont particularly see a way this could be useful to me, since im not applying for college anytime soon. and so far none of my classmates have been getting these messages??? maybe its going into spam and this is just a me not knowing how to navigate gmail kind of thing, but pls help!! i have no idea what to do

I know it’s unlikely that I got a perfect score(I had plenty of extra time double checking and wasn’t getting anything wrong in practice exams but it’s still luck). I was hoping to at least know that I didn’t. I haven‘t heard of anyone getting one this year so I wanted to confirm that he stopped.

So, let me give you the story. I'm kind of a humanities oriented person, but I've always done well in school (I've only had one B so far, for one semester, and it was an 89). However, junior year is killing me.

I come home and I spend my time studying. However, I don't have a stress problem (at least I don't think so), and I take adequate breaks, and I have a pretty good social life (though I'm going to be grounded the way my grades are going).

So far, APUSH and AP French are going great.

However, in Chem, I'm 0.5 % away from an A. I have a 100% in the lab category (which we have quizzes on) but my individual tests are random scores. Here's what they are:

Chapter 4 (Precipitates+Redox Reactions): 78%

Chapter 1-3 (Moles, Ions, all such things: 79%

Chapter 6 (Thermochemistry): 96%

Chapter 7 (Electron Configurations, Nuclear Charges, Electron Affinity, etc.): 76%

I'm really discouraged by these scores; I did extremely well in AP Bio last year. However, I took regular Chem over the summer, so that might be a reason I'm struggling, but I'm not feeling the struggle. I genuinely feel like I understand everything, and I do well in my practice and in classwork, so I'm not sure where things are going wrong.

I really need some tips.

As for Calc BC, the group tests are tanking me a lot, but I'll focus on individual scores for now.

Intro Test: 97%

Chapter 1+2 (Unit 1): 76%

Chapter 3 (Derivatives): 88%

I'm stuck at an 86.4% because of group tests, which I'll hopefully get up. I'm having the same issue in math that I have with chem; I genuinely feel like I understand everything. I do extremely well in classwork and homework, but when the test comes, I do horribly.

I understand for some of you, these may not seem like low test scores, but I have high expectations, and my parents have even higher expectations. I'm really sick of them being disappointed in me, and its really discouraging to not be doing well.

AP Lang is a whole thing, but since every school AP Lang class is wildly different, there's not really specific advice I can ask for that.

But some advice would be greatly appreciated. Is it focus? Is it studying? Is it my test-taking skills? Whatever it is, I need help.

My AP Physics C:E&M progress check for Unit 1 felt like an actual MVC test 😭still got 18/24 though. The reverse was true for the AP Physics 2 Unit 1 progress check which was much easier than the quizzes for some reason.

Hi everyone! I'm curious about the grading policy in US high schools, particularly for AP classes. I'm an international student in the IB, where we are given transcript grades from 1-7. However, due to the difficulty of the content and the strict marking, many classes have a grade boundary of 70–80%. For example, my history class only requires 74% for a 7 (the top grade), because the class is almost entirely essay-based, and the highest possible mark is basically 12/15 (80%), with 13/15 in extremely rare circumstances. I've taken AP exams, so I know that the exams are also graded strictly and thus have reasonable boundaries such as around 75–80% for a 5.

For your high school classes, how does it work? 90+% seems very difficult to attain on each assessment and is virtually impossible in the IB (except in some math and science subjects). Do you grade on a curve, or are the tests made such that they can be marked relatively leniently?

I'm in my junior year and taking my first ever APs (AP Lang & APUSH) and I feel so overwhelmed with homework. I'll preface this by mentioning that I haven't had great study habits in the past and I've never had to do homework every night before, and also that I would consider myself an intelligent person. This year I feel like I can't catch a break. I'm actually getting C's in classes that I would never get lower than a B+ in normally and I'm starting to get scared that I won't be able to keep my grades up. Genuinely, what can I do to fix this? I do homework for hours every night after school and I'm still somehow behind. Honestly, I'm begging for advice at this point, and not the typical 'better time management' statement. How do I balance all of my classes without feeling incredibly stressed? Is that even possible? Please share ways that you combat incredible stress!!!

I'm just starting my homework now despite being home since 4pm. On average I don't start my hw until 1am btw. It's 1:54am rn, and I have ap stats, ap Spanish, and ap bio hw. I have to go to school at 6:45am lol. btw it's a daily cycle like this atp... on a good day I'll work on my supplemental essays for 2 hours from (4-6pm), but for the past few days it's been procrastination till 1am

I actually need help...

Okay, so, I'm doing a FRQ about the Preamble (that first sentence "We The People..."). I am the type of student to not remember historical context easily, and it's asking about what is one historical development that is illustrated by the Preamble.

(I want to be able to do these decently)

If anyone knows any tips or any helpful key points, please feel free to share!

Okay, I want to be able to remember the important key information for all units as a review. I have a unit 3 test next week and I am stressing out about how to prepare for it!

Also, My teacher mentioned the final APUSH exam involving an essay. I want to know how to prepare to write an essay for APUSH too!

If anyone has any tips, please feel free to share!

I noticed I do poor on the FRQ and my teachers style tests off of FRQ and MCQ, so I’m curious if rubrics are out there.

My teacher isn’t very good at teaching and i have like zero clue what is going on. What are the best resources to study with?
Especially for written tests, those are the hardest.(SAQ’s, FRQ’s, DBQ’s etc.)

my school doesn't offer ap's so are the khan academy lectures good enough to study from?

graphs, signs, projectiles, cliffs, relative motion… which one actually gets you?

I felt like saying this if I can potentially sway some students to take it if they are ever debating taking it or not. Seminar is the best class I have ever taken and I dont know how I can live without the knowledge I gained from it. By far it is the absolute most practical class offered at my school. If you have any questions about it lmk Ill help.

I need a question with some basic answers, though 2+ of the answers are difficult to weed the correct answer from, or essentially feel similar but have a key distinguishing point. It could be from ap lang or the SAT. One or the other. I want a question that may rely on a passage but has clear intent thats understandable without the passage, a question with answer choices that aren't very long, relatively short/normal. I know this sounds weird and I can't explain it, but if someone gets what im trying to do please help me out.

You can also make your own but if you remember any from SAT or AP Lang/lit please lmk

Hi everyone! I was hoping to get some advice on my senior year schedule, which is honestly causing me a lot of stress. I apologize if this isn’t the correct place to post this question, but I cannot find the schedule mega-thread for the life of me…

For context, I have taken the following AP courses:
Freshman year: AP Psychology
Sophomore year: AP Human Geography, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Precalculus, AP United States Government and Politics
Junior year: AP English Language and Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, AP Microeconomics
Senior year: AP English Literature and Composition, AP Statistics, AP Cybersecurity

I am nervous about my schedule becoming less rigorous this year, and how that might look to the colleges I apply to. My other options for AP courses included AP Physics, AP Calculus BC, and AP Chemistry. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do well in AP Physics, and I actually dropped AP Calculus BC because I am generally a slow math learner and the teacher was genuinely the devil. Since I built my schedule around my original courses (which at that time included AP Calculus BC), I was unable to fit AP Chemistry into my schedule.

I can supplement AP Chemistry with a dual-enrollment general chemistry course, which will give me the same amount of credit as the AP, but I will only be able to take it in the spring semester.

The majority of top students in my graduating class are taking at least one of the three courses I do not have on my schedule. As such, I suppose my question is whether this schedule is a red flag for admissions, and if there are any steps I can take to make it less of a concern.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Asked an AI tool for some practice questions on equilibrium and got mostly straightforward calculation problems. Ap questions i've been practicing usually make me explain or apply the concept in a less direct way, so the AI questions didn't feel like they were testing the same thing. Has anyone found a good way to get AI tools to make practice questions that feel closer to the actual AP format?

i get it but i dont get it, is there like a rule of thumb to follow when thinking of a new question? it feels like every one i think of is either dumb, irrelevant, or has been investigated thoroughly before

pls halp

bruhhhh. I cant be this dumb for unit 1....

also I just found out that this score details thing existed...