Friday, June 16, 2006
Saturday and beyond...
We have a total of four more review sessions left (Sat, Mon, Tues, and Wed.). After that, it's showtime.
So far, I have conducted 18 hours worth of review sessions during which we have covered about 100 part II questions. If you really know the answers to all of the Review session questions sets, you will either get a 100 on the Regents or in the high 90s because all of those questions are based on the State curriculum standards from which Regents questions are designed. If you have questions from those question sets or past Regents, come to extra help or, AT LEAST, email me. After next Wednesday, the pressure is OFF.
For now, I hope that you are all acting like true Honors students and studying in excess. Keep in mind that everything that you do now to prepare for the Regents can benefit your Regents grade, your Quarter grade AND your Final Course Grade ( AND your Physics placement ). There's a big payoff if you work extra-hard now. However, the INVERSE is also true in this case...
MANY of you who need the experience practicing for this test have not taken advantage of this review. There is very little time left. You must come to review WITH AT LEAST SOME QUESTIONS PREPARED! Having NO questions at a review session suggests that you have not studied enough/at all so that you don't even KNOW where you may need help. MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES AS YOU CAN NOW- THEY DO NOT AFFECT YOUR AVERAGE AND THEY LET YOU KNOW WHERE TO FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS so that you do not make those mistakes where they count- on the Regents.! You should be doing ALL of the questions from the files that I have uploaded this week. Do NOT go into the Regents ignorant of how to solve some problem type when you have the opportunity to clear things up EVERY DAY.
Come to extra help and pick up your last exam, correct it and review it. Here are yet two more errors that ALMOST EVERYONE made on that test:
Only SIX Honors students know that crystallization is a separation technique that physically separates different salts and/or molecules bases on differences in SOLUBILITY AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES!!! Crystallization has NOTHING TO DO WITH DENSITY OR FREEZING POINT (WHICH EVERYONE ELSE PUT AS AN ANSWER)!!!
After doing COUNTLESS pH problems, some have not learned the simple math skill of converting concentration of H3O+ to pH!! Even with the correct answer, MOST of you could not show the work consistent with the answer and some of you showed work that CONTRADICTED the correct answer. You could NOT have taken notes on all the problems that we did. You could not have practiced this problem type. You should do so immediately.
So far, I have conducted 18 hours worth of review sessions during which we have covered about 100 part II questions. If you really know the answers to all of the Review session questions sets, you will either get a 100 on the Regents or in the high 90s because all of those questions are based on the State curriculum standards from which Regents questions are designed. If you have questions from those question sets or past Regents, come to extra help or, AT LEAST, email me. After next Wednesday, the pressure is OFF.
For now, I hope that you are all acting like true Honors students and studying in excess. Keep in mind that everything that you do now to prepare for the Regents can benefit your Regents grade, your Quarter grade AND your Final Course Grade ( AND your Physics placement ). There's a big payoff if you work extra-hard now. However, the INVERSE is also true in this case...
MANY of you who need the experience practicing for this test have not taken advantage of this review. There is very little time left. You must come to review WITH AT LEAST SOME QUESTIONS PREPARED! Having NO questions at a review session suggests that you have not studied enough/at all so that you don't even KNOW where you may need help. MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES AS YOU CAN NOW- THEY DO NOT AFFECT YOUR AVERAGE AND THEY LET YOU KNOW WHERE TO FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS so that you do not make those mistakes where they count- on the Regents.! You should be doing ALL of the questions from the files that I have uploaded this week. Do NOT go into the Regents ignorant of how to solve some problem type when you have the opportunity to clear things up EVERY DAY.
Come to extra help and pick up your last exam, correct it and review it. Here are yet two more errors that ALMOST EVERYONE made on that test:
Only SIX Honors students know that crystallization is a separation technique that physically separates different salts and/or molecules bases on differences in SOLUBILITY AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES!!! Crystallization has NOTHING TO DO WITH DENSITY OR FREEZING POINT (WHICH EVERYONE ELSE PUT AS AN ANSWER)!!!
After doing COUNTLESS pH problems, some have not learned the simple math skill of converting concentration of H3O+ to pH!! Even with the correct answer, MOST of you could not show the work consistent with the answer and some of you showed work that CONTRADICTED the correct answer. You could NOT have taken notes on all the problems that we did. You could not have practiced this problem type. You should do so immediately.
# posted by C @ 8:39 PM 
