Thursday, November 02, 2006
Regents: Stock is up today
More than half of the class scored above 85 so things are picking up again. Not bad for an "unannounced" exam. Class average was 81. We still have to pick up at least 9 points to call ourselves successful. Let's see that success next Tuesday on your last exam for the quarter: the Lab exam, which is a multiple choice test. Some of you improved significantly on today's test and I KNOW that the task was not easy. Congratulations to you for your effort.
ALMOST ALL who did not do well have not been to or are rarely at extra help; when you come to extra help, have questions ready. You will have questions ready if you are doing the homework and you are getting questions wrong OR if you are copying your notes and you do not understand them. People who come to extra help without questions will not improve nearly as much as they could if they came KNOWING what they do not comprehend. The absolute number one way to improve in chemistry is to, every DAY, REPEATEDLY do the different problem types that are tested until you can do them quickly and accurately every time (this also works beautifully in math).
It's time to change your priorities. I give extra help EVERY day FOR YOU. Whatever your excuses are for not going, if you don't change them, you're not magically going to improve. I hope that you will make a better effort for the second quarter.
ALMOST ALL who did not do well have not been to or are rarely at extra help; when you come to extra help, have questions ready. You will have questions ready if you are doing the homework and you are getting questions wrong OR if you are copying your notes and you do not understand them. People who come to extra help without questions will not improve nearly as much as they could if they came KNOWING what they do not comprehend. The absolute number one way to improve in chemistry is to, every DAY, REPEATEDLY do the different problem types that are tested until you can do them quickly and accurately every time (this also works beautifully in math).
It's time to change your priorities. I give extra help EVERY day FOR YOU. Whatever your excuses are for not going, if you don't change them, you're not magically going to improve. I hope that you will make a better effort for the second quarter.
# posted by C @ 7:09 PM 
