Sunday, April 24, 2005
VIVA AP!
Good news for our shell-shocked AP class :)
Firstly, I have a NEW MAC that doesn't freeze! I can post assignments earlier now instead of having to wait until I'm home to do so.
Now for the really good news:
The Electrochem exam is enough to send most people to the "electro" chair. There are sooooo many ways to mess up an electro problem, Ecell, Eocell, balancing, concentration changes, le chatelier stresses.....
Well, you saw the obstacles, tackled them head on, and , as a group, made very few errors. The class average was 135 out of 150; that's 90% for you math types. We haven't had a 90 class average since Bonding II ( trigonal bipyramid, yooo ).
So, good work especially since we covered that unit in WORLD RECORD time (although we covered most of nuclear in 30 minutes - yikes! )
Make sure that you stay on top of your homework for this quarter because it will largely impact your average.(...and don't copy it from the internet, I'm actually not that gullible although I hope to be someday; but seriously, you will kill your ability to improve if you just copy instead of saying, "hey I don't know this, let me read the text or notes or ask Cicale tomorrow- he will let me hand it in after school.") As I said, I will help you with any and all HW questions after school any day. Two more weeks: please make the sacrifice and go all out these weeks; you'll notice a tremendous cathartic difference in your life after May 10; then, on July 14 or thereabouts, when you call up NJ for your grade, you will hear a nice numerical message. You don't want to look back with regrets.
Tomorrow's AP test is online for now. Just give it a look-see so that you can guide your own learning this week: we'll do the questions that are toughest for you in class.
Firstly, I have a NEW MAC that doesn't freeze! I can post assignments earlier now instead of having to wait until I'm home to do so.
Now for the really good news:
The Electrochem exam is enough to send most people to the "electro" chair. There are sooooo many ways to mess up an electro problem, Ecell, Eocell, balancing, concentration changes, le chatelier stresses.....
Well, you saw the obstacles, tackled them head on, and , as a group, made very few errors. The class average was 135 out of 150; that's 90% for you math types. We haven't had a 90 class average since Bonding II ( trigonal bipyramid, yooo ).
So, good work especially since we covered that unit in WORLD RECORD time (although we covered most of nuclear in 30 minutes - yikes! )
Make sure that you stay on top of your homework for this quarter because it will largely impact your average.(...and don't copy it from the internet, I'm actually not that gullible although I hope to be someday; but seriously, you will kill your ability to improve if you just copy instead of saying, "hey I don't know this, let me read the text or notes or ask Cicale tomorrow- he will let me hand it in after school.") As I said, I will help you with any and all HW questions after school any day. Two more weeks: please make the sacrifice and go all out these weeks; you'll notice a tremendous cathartic difference in your life after May 10; then, on July 14 or thereabouts, when you call up NJ for your grade, you will hear a nice numerical message. You don't want to look back with regrets.
Tomorrow's AP test is online for now. Just give it a look-see so that you can guide your own learning this week: we'll do the questions that are toughest for you in class.
# posted by C @ 3:46 PM 
