Monday, June 06, 2005
Coming up next...
Two more days of formal school; this year flew by, it seems. In fact, we only had 153 days of school (some of them with 20 minute non-classes); compare that to the puritanical, laborious 180-day public school schedule. If we had that kind of time, we'd be on Regents # 40 by now ( June 1967 yooo?). Some of you may want to come in and take the Regents that your parents took.
Well, I will post our review class schedule (tomorrow, most likely) after I edit out some conflicts with finals. Each review class consists of specific questions that thoroughly test your knowledge on a given topic. You must come to the sessions with the questions printed out (from the webpage). I will have lots of review time up until and including the morning of the Regents exam (bagels that morning, too!)
Bring a 4X6 index card to log your review session hours so that I may give you extra fourth quarter credit ( 5 points towards your quarterly total points per hour of review) for time put in with work shown (all questions must be answered as we cover them).
Anyone coming to the review sessions to take a practice Regents must let me know via email the day before (by 6PM) so that I will have it printed out for you. You do not get review credit time for taking a Regents though, just the usual credit if your practice Regents score is above your quarterly average.
Lastly, I have posted one more released Regents exam. After you finish that one, you will have completed eight Regents exams. I advise you to take each Regents exam AGAIN until you get a guaranteed 100 on each of them. Then, I will know AND you will know that you will be ridiculously confident and prepared for your exam on June 22.
Reminder: write THOROUGH, detailed written responses along with drawings/arrows and anything else that will make your answers elaborate. Succinct, ambiguous answers result in the loss of SCORES of points. I have seen this tragedy again and again (fortunately not from my classes who , in past years, have come through for themselves and for me :)) ).
That's all for now folks.
Well, I will post our review class schedule (tomorrow, most likely) after I edit out some conflicts with finals. Each review class consists of specific questions that thoroughly test your knowledge on a given topic. You must come to the sessions with the questions printed out (from the webpage). I will have lots of review time up until and including the morning of the Regents exam (bagels that morning, too!)
Bring a 4X6 index card to log your review session hours so that I may give you extra fourth quarter credit ( 5 points towards your quarterly total points per hour of review) for time put in with work shown (all questions must be answered as we cover them).
Anyone coming to the review sessions to take a practice Regents must let me know via email the day before (by 6PM) so that I will have it printed out for you. You do not get review credit time for taking a Regents though, just the usual credit if your practice Regents score is above your quarterly average.
Lastly, I have posted one more released Regents exam. After you finish that one, you will have completed eight Regents exams. I advise you to take each Regents exam AGAIN until you get a guaranteed 100 on each of them. Then, I will know AND you will know that you will be ridiculously confident and prepared for your exam on June 22.
Reminder: write THOROUGH, detailed written responses along with drawings/arrows and anything else that will make your answers elaborate. Succinct, ambiguous answers result in the loss of SCORES of points. I have seen this tragedy again and again (fortunately not from my classes who , in past years, have come through for themselves and for me :)) ).
That's all for now folks.
# posted by C @ 8:28 PM 
