AP Physics Class Reflection

Instead of solely having AP courses teaching core social capital skills, all courses taught in educational institutions should be constructed to challenge students and dissipate knowledge on how to succeed. Failing an AP course will not only tremendously lower your GPA, but shows how students who lack certain social capital skills that are typically taught at home such as time management, will struggle to adjust to the dominant institution

When assignments and test/quiz material became available, I always kept note of the work and began preparing my study material and practiced. Once finished with the assignment, I would go back several times and reread it and compare it to the grading rubric. This presents my personal perfectionism and concern to the task at hand. (warrant) My biggest downfall this semester would be my lack of vocal participation within the classroom.

AP courses are supposed to be hard. Their curriculums were designed by the Collegeboard to challenge motivated students and build up essential academic skills. However, aspects like the cost of taking AP exams, Arlington’s policy requiring students to take the AP exam with the course, and the north’s late school year start often create unintentional difficulties, adding stress to already difficult classes. To start, the exam themselves are expensive. At $94 per exam, even students who are able to afford the fee might think twice about dropping hundreds of dollars on AP exams.

AP Music Theory was taught by one of my favorite teachers. I’ve had him for three years, and he always pushes students every year to sign up for the class. Even if it didn’t fit into your schedule, he just needed enough people to show interest in the class. In other words, fifty people could sign up for the class, but if only five people end up fitting it in their schedule, it’d still be considered a class for that year.

Yes, I am a teaching assistant for Chem 1011 this semester. I have experience explaining the topics with various teaching styles to students and guiding them toward the correct answers. I also oversee safety in the lab and ensured every student is taking necessary precautions. Every week, I grade lab reports and quizzes for the instructor.

After class I approached him and told him I was taking both. He scoffed at me and told me that I would fail both classes. I was upset, but I decided that I would dedicate extra time to studying for these two courses to make sure I did

This summer was much less exciting than I anticipated. However, I believe it was an important transition from the past to the present. I visited my aunt and uncle at their quaint home in rural Vermont, as I had not been in many years. Since a large portion of my childhood memories were made there, it was refreshing to see everything through more mature eyes. It felt like an eternity was spent there, when in reality it was only a long weekend.

I have cheated at several points in my life, from spelling tests in first grade, to worksheets in ninth grade Physical Science. The most recent however, was on a Spanish test just this year. My uncle just died, so I haven't really been able to think of anything as being very important. One of these unimportant things on my mind was this Spanish test. I was completely unprepared and I didn't really have the will to actually make myself do it, so when I went in during second period to take my test, I had absolutely no idea what any of the answers were.

I was in Mr. Howard’s AP Literature class. It was the first day of class, there were approximately thirty of us, sitting in rows of six, in the dark with music playing in the background and colorful bright lights traveling through the room. I chatted with my close friend Andrea, who sat beside me, until the bell rang to indicate that passing period was over. Mr. Howard then turned on the lights and muted the music and began to introduce us to his course. He stated that the class would be writing one to two essays a week and that there would be quizzes and tests based on our readings, the body of students responded to this by groaning and complaining; however, it was an AP course and were we to expect anything less?

While I was in high school I struggled in AP Chemistry and AP Language and Composition. In AP Chemistry, I struggled with solving for the K value in equilibrium, in which I got help by going to the tutors in the school library after school. The tutor helped me out by showing me how to understand the examples in my notes and then by helping me apply the same technique of solving that was on the notes to the problems that were assigned to me as homework. This is the only reason why my AP Chem grade improved from a C- from the beginning of the spring semester into a C in the end. In AP Lang I was struggling with the essays we had to right based on the books we read.

To my surprise, I had already been failing each of the tests, labs, and a majority of the assignments that were given to me during the first few weeks of school. My first thought after my failures and imperfections was why this was happening. I recall coming home after each school day had come to end and sitting at my desk for hours attempting to solve complex stoichiometry problems and mole to mole ratios, as well as understanding different types of chemical reactions, compounds, and theories. I devoted hours and hours to focusing my mind and concentrating on understanding the concepts that were presented to me in order to succeed in the class. However, despite my persistence and

I thought physics would be just as easy as all of my other subjects had been. Even though the homework problems were a bit tricky, I finished them in half an hour. However, always the procrastinator, it had been the half hour prior to the due date, so I didn’t have a chance to compare my answers to my peers’ before turning in the assignment. Many of my friends had done a study session to try and combat the problems together, but I had opted to not go. Now, sitting in physics class, we braced ourselves to receive the markings of our first

My AP math courses over both semesters were slotted at the exact same times as design technology. This resulted in me missing out on a potentially high university level mark for my

Study shows that one reason why students cheat is because they feel as if they almost have to because of their peers. In their article, “Source Is Important When Developing A Social Norms Campaign to Combat Academic Dishonesty”, Jennifer N. Engler and Joshua D. Landau maintains that “By this account, students cheat because they believe that their peers

Upon entry to my exchange program in the United States, I was placed in a Junior Algebra Honors class despite of my previous completion of the course back in China. Accordingly, the tests were relatively simple. Shortly after a unit test began, I completed it and handed it in to the teacher confidently. This took a turn for the worst however, as she had associated my quickness with cheating. This was obviously not the case, yet she insisted it true.