Saturday, January 28, 2006
Honors Tests
Congratulations to all of the Honors classes, especially the now puissant (that's a compliment! look it up) B-Period, for doing an excellent job on the comprehensive Bonding unit exam. Though you did well, the exam was not easy and there were many ways to get the questions wrong if they were not read carefully and thought about. I noted the care that was given to the exam: work shown, molecules drawn out, keywords underlined. That is always going to pay off for you.
Class averages:
B = 97 (holler!)
D = 96 (sweet)
E = 95 (remember when you used to beat B period?)
As for Monday's Lab exam, though it is a multiple choice exam, you will not be able to figure out most of the questions without writing out/drawing/giving an example of what the question is asking for. If you try to do the test solely in your head (never a good idea on any test), you may actually do very poorly (as many did last year; then they kicked themselves for not writing out information that they KNEW which would have led them to the correct answer). The labs performed this quarter reflected the class topics: the Periodic Table, Bonding and Inter-particle attractions so, if you know those topics well and connect how they were applied in lab, you are studying correctly. Some are not taking notes when I explain or describe what is going on in lab. Those students will have trouble answering some of the lab exam questions so be wary of that for our future lab class discussions(always take good notes in EVERY class so that you can study effectively; the pre-printed notes are necessary BUT in no way SUFFICIENT for success in this class!).
So, let's finish the second quarter with a positive, legitimate (no free grade inflation), grade-boosting effort.
Class averages:
B = 97 (holler!)
D = 96 (sweet)
E = 95 (remember when you used to beat B period?)
As for Monday's Lab exam, though it is a multiple choice exam, you will not be able to figure out most of the questions without writing out/drawing/giving an example of what the question is asking for. If you try to do the test solely in your head (never a good idea on any test), you may actually do very poorly (as many did last year; then they kicked themselves for not writing out information that they KNEW which would have led them to the correct answer). The labs performed this quarter reflected the class topics: the Periodic Table, Bonding and Inter-particle attractions so, if you know those topics well and connect how they were applied in lab, you are studying correctly. Some are not taking notes when I explain or describe what is going on in lab. Those students will have trouble answering some of the lab exam questions so be wary of that for our future lab class discussions(always take good notes in EVERY class so that you can study effectively; the pre-printed notes are necessary BUT in no way SUFFICIENT for success in this class!).
So, let's finish the second quarter with a positive, legitimate (no free grade inflation), grade-boosting effort.
# posted by C @ 7:29 PM 
