Saturday, September 17, 2011

Surprise tests by teachers! Anticipate them!

Yesterday was the perfect day for me until I walked into first period Chemistry. The first thing the teacher tells me to do is to take a test from the back of the room. At first I was puzzled to the thought of taking a test in a classroom for thirty minutes. What was even more puzzling was the fact that I didn't know the answers to some of the questions. Also, I would sit there working out the answer in a very wrong way and coming up with a very wrong answer only to later just guess my way through the test.

For the most part, I understood the concepts that the test was testing me on. By thatI'm not saying that I guessed on the answers and miraculously got every single answer correct. I actually gave up like five minutes of my time every night and read out of the Chemistry book. Even reading a paragraph can help alot on a test.

One thing I didn't understand was the conversions. I have a little bit of difficulty with the conversion concepts. I will perhaps have to read over the lesson that explains conversions.

Remember, I set aside some time to learn Chrmistry. For example, this blog post is written on a bus on my way to a Cross country race down at Ojai, CA.


2 comments:

  1. Hmmm...well, a couple thoughts here. The "Look at the Week" calendar on the whiteboard showed the week's work on Monday, including the test coming on Friday and it was mentioned several times in class. Not sure why you were caught off guard.

    Glad you were prepared for the most part. As a time management skill, be sure to set aside a minimum of 2.5 to 3 hours per week outside of school solely for Chemistry. That's 30-45 minutes a night, which was mentioned the first couple days of class. College prep science and math classes require a bit more commitment than five minutes.

    Glad most of the concepts were making sense to you, make sure you ask questions and get help when you see areas during your 30-45 minutes of work on chemistry each night.

    Hope track went well in Ojai and glad you were able to utilize modern technology to post this. As part of our STaRS Academy program, utilization of technology in education is key.

    See you Monday.

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