Thursday, June 08, 2006
We're baaack
I will post the rooms and times for the extra-help sessions later today (assuming that blogger stays on line).
I am currently grading our final class test. After our class took and reviewed SEVEN Regents exams, some of you have committed some SHOCKING errors. There is one main cause of these terrible errors: LAZINESS. If you do not write out your general formulas, if you do not include units in your calculations, if you do not answer "WHY" after each line of your explanation, if you do not know the relationship between hydronium ion and pH (after we did 5 examples EXPLICITLY in class!!!!), then you are going to make these same errors on the Regents. If you abase yourselves to the Regents answer key standards, you will guarantee yourself a low score on the Regents and IN THIS COURSE. It is expected and anticipated that, through hard work, that your Regents score should be one of your highest test grades of the year. I can see that, for some of you, the Regents has made you LOWER your test-taking standards; that had better change. You must perform at the Honors level on the Regents exam: circle key terms and data; re-read each question BEFORE you answer the question, show ALL work including PICTURES, GENERAL FORMULAS, NUMBERS WITH UNITS, SHOW CANCELLATIONS, COMPLETE SENTENCES, CLEARLY LABELLED AND ANNOTATED DIAGRAMS. Demonstrating these skills has been one of the main causes of my past classes' extremely high Regents averages. Remember, I will be scrutinizing every Regents exam (usually this results in finding an extra LEGITIMATE point or two for those who took the exam properly); I will note HOW you took the exam and that will influence your grade in this class!
If you EVER wonder whether you should include something in your answer, then the answer is YES!
By now, you MUST know how to take a test and you MUST apply those skills. There are some who have done very well on this last test by following my test-taking advice consistently. Some of you need to do more work and more careful work on the Regents. You must come to extra help to correct your errors. There are several students who should be at almost EVERY review session. I seriously expect their attendance next week.
I am currently grading our final class test. After our class took and reviewed SEVEN Regents exams, some of you have committed some SHOCKING errors. There is one main cause of these terrible errors: LAZINESS. If you do not write out your general formulas, if you do not include units in your calculations, if you do not answer "WHY" after each line of your explanation, if you do not know the relationship between hydronium ion and pH (after we did 5 examples EXPLICITLY in class!!!!), then you are going to make these same errors on the Regents. If you abase yourselves to the Regents answer key standards, you will guarantee yourself a low score on the Regents and IN THIS COURSE. It is expected and anticipated that, through hard work, that your Regents score should be one of your highest test grades of the year. I can see that, for some of you, the Regents has made you LOWER your test-taking standards; that had better change. You must perform at the Honors level on the Regents exam: circle key terms and data; re-read each question BEFORE you answer the question, show ALL work including PICTURES, GENERAL FORMULAS, NUMBERS WITH UNITS, SHOW CANCELLATIONS, COMPLETE SENTENCES, CLEARLY LABELLED AND ANNOTATED DIAGRAMS. Demonstrating these skills has been one of the main causes of my past classes' extremely high Regents averages. Remember, I will be scrutinizing every Regents exam (usually this results in finding an extra LEGITIMATE point or two for those who took the exam properly); I will note HOW you took the exam and that will influence your grade in this class!
If you EVER wonder whether you should include something in your answer, then the answer is YES!
By now, you MUST know how to take a test and you MUST apply those skills. There are some who have done very well on this last test by following my test-taking advice consistently. Some of you need to do more work and more careful work on the Regents. You must come to extra help to correct your errors. There are several students who should be at almost EVERY review session. I seriously expect their attendance next week.
# posted by C @ 11:57 AM 
