The most challenging class that I have taken during my senior year would be AP Calculus. Having to transition in going to Precalculus to AP Calculus have been a brave action for me to do. AP Calculus has been the class of my senior year that I am having the most struggle on. Even though I have been struggling in that class, I have the ability to make myself to go to tutoring with my AP Calculus teacher Mr. Ninofranco in order to clarify my confusions. I had to endure all the challenging courses with hard work and dedication to the subject in order to fully understand it and obtain a passing grade. This year, I have found my strength in having the ability to ask for help whenever I am confused at a certain point. I had the chance to take the advantage of using the resources that my school have made available to me. …show more content…
Because I utilized my resources in getting tutoring, I had the improvement in understanding the AP Calculus concepts. As the result, I was able to receive many acceptable score from test that I have taken. However, my weakness of what I am not good at would be the AP Calculus acceleration and velocity problems. The assignment that not in good quality as it should be would be my timed write essay. I have brought forth good ideas for my prompt but I have done poorly in having to express my thoughts onto my paper. I have been struggling with having my thoughts to make sense on paper in order to get my claim to be undeartsnabke for my rreders. Thus, I will continue to effectively write on what I have to say by writing what is going on in my
Students should communicate with their counselors to select a manageable course load based on their own aptitude and interests. Certain combinations of the most difficult AP classes may be difficult to handle for all but the most brilliant students. However by making smart informed decisions, students can challenge themselves by taking appropriate AP classes.
“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, is a story about a mother's struggle to balance the demands of raising children and having to work to make ends meet during the Great Depression. The story’s primary focus is on the relationship between the narrator, a mother, and her first child, Emily. Throughout the story, the narrator reflects on the decisions and mistakes she made while raising Emily. The narrator was detached from Emily almost completely during her younger years, but she desires an emotional connection to her, like she has with her other children. She also wants Emily to have a better life than she had.
With college right around the corner and taking a college course gave a real sense of how college classes are going to work giving me an edge over all of the other students going to college that didn’t take a dual enrollment course. Dual enrollment was honestly one of the best decisions I made in my academic career because like what I was saying this class taught me the inner workings of how most assignment are going to be turned in, what it means to be self-reliant/ on your own have no help with assignment from your parents, experiencing a course that only a handful of assignment rather than a ton of assignment ends up making up over eighty percent of your grade (getting you to work extra hard so you won’t fail) and finally that you have to actually interact with the professor/teacher if you need help or are having trouble with an
It challenged me more than usual. Even though I love math, my teacher challenged me to be better at it. But while I was in a specialized high school in DC, I thought everything would be very easy. It became more difficult because it felt like I was behind in the learning process. But managing my positions and school was very hard. I tend to take sports more seriously than academics. Once I transferred schools, it became more difficult because it felt like I was behind in the learning process. By the end of my sophomore year, I was learning that my GPA is very big. I admit. I messed up but now that I know, I do not play around and I take my work very seriously. I found this through my teachers and guidance
Being a scholar is a challenge that I take on everyday. The most challenging classes I took this year will have to be AP English Language and Algebra II Honors. AP English Language is my first AP class I have taken and it was really challenging. The most challenging part about being in AP English Language was the level of expectation on your work. English has always been my hardest subject and taking this course was a big step. My essay grades were very low so I had to work extra hard in all my other work to keep my grade up. Also, I was really scared about the AP exam but Ms.Pruden really prepared us for it, I went in and used everything she taught me to try and pass the exam. Algebra II Honors will have to be the most challenging class this
All of my classes in high school I passed with no struggle. I would cram all the knowledge that I needed for a test the night before, so I thought college would not be any different. A week or two before my first ever college exam the professor announced that if we had not already been study, then we should start to right away. Being a young naive freshmen, I kind of blew the teacher off. Telling myself that I did not need to waste the next few weeks studying for one exam. So I waited until the last day to study. You might have an idea of what happened next. I failed the exam. Failing so bad that it would be nearly impossible for me to still get a C in the course. I could not even look at myself. The thought of disappointing my parents was making my stomach turn. This fear of failing the class was tearing me apart. The only chance at passing this class was if I turned myself into the perfect student. This meant turning things in on time, studying days in advance for exams, and going to my professor’s office hours. And that is exactly what I did. By some seriously hard work, long nights, and over a hundred red bulls, I was able to achieve a passing grade with a
The government has always intrigued me, with the many different agencies. One part that I have always wanted to see what happens on the inside is the different congressional offices. If you are a part of a congressional office, you get to help bring change in our world. In serving the people, you help individuals feel as though their voices are heard. In an AP Seminar project, we learned about different perspectives; that project lead me to realizing how many perspectives about a broad range of topics exist in our world. Being a state’s congressman/ woman means you bring all of those perspectives together, to adhere to the wants of that state. I believe it is very important that a voice is given to the voiceless, which is exactly what congress has the ability to do. I believe in our current political climate, that it is important for younger generations, like mine, to be involved in the government, so that in the future they can play an active role in democracy. I want to fully learn how different parts of the government work, and to know how they function, you have to be a part of them, or be taught by someone who is. I want to be a future leader in America, just like Girls Scouts has taught me to be, anything I want to be.
When I was a freshmen in high school I had to take physics. I didn’t really take this class serious. I wasn’t doing my homework and kept getting distracted by other things in the class room so I ended up failing the class. When I spoke to my guidance counselor about it she told me I didn’t have to repeat the class. By the time I became a senior in high school they told me I needed the class to graduate. I felt a little embarrassed because I had to retake the class with freshmen. I was able to pass the class this time because I was more focus and I needed it to graduate.
My most inspiring and challenging hardship was my AP Calculus class. The name by itself caused for shivers and anxiety. Or better yet the teacher who taught the subject was someone much scarier than the subject itself. The class started off at a face pace in the beginning of the year and gave us a taste of what life was going to be like ahead of us as AP Calculus students. We had homework assignments every day. There was no free time for us. Math was our lives at that point. Not only was it the everyday homework assignments and surprise quizzes that stressed us out, but her tests that we would take every so often would take weeks of studying to prepare for and even then success was not guaranteed. Us, students, had a lot of failures in this class, a lot which were inevitable even with the hours of studying that we did and foregoing other teachers work just to keep our head afloat.
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The biggest challenge I ever faced personally is when I decided to taken AP Biology during my senior year of high school. One of the reasons I took this class, was that I wanted to gain a few credits before I started college. The other was that, my original plan was to take a class that have me a step into my future major, Biology. Technically the major I wanted to take was Zoology, but very few colleges, especially Farmingdale, don't have it.
There is no challenge that I won't accept. My curiosity and perseverance through tough situations allows for me to explore information in the world that interest me. One of these challenges came in the form of physics, as I accepted my place in the course without any prior higher level mathematical knowledge. AP Physics was the hardest advanced placement course I have taken due to the conceptual learning that was prevalent throughout the class. I have a self-teaching type of nature: when I don't know how to solve a problem instead of relying on others I look up information myself. My teaching method did not help me, as everything was completely new in that class, even more so than foreign language. Even though my first semester was incredibly
Before going into Algebra ii and honors-pre calculus, I took a semester class for both these subjects at my neighborhood community college. In addition, when I have a free period, I become a teacher assistant for the math class I am taking to insure my knowledge and success in the class. This also gave me plenty of time to ask for help as well as create a personal relationship with my teacher. My math teacher gave me extra questions and worksheets on the topics struggled on. With my preparation and my teachers dedication, I was able to excel in my pre-calculus class with a high
Hoping to achieve a more favorable outcome with the same class and set of capabilities meant acknowledging my mistakes and confronting my faults - something much easier said than done. My first mistake had to do with attitude. Attitudes inside of me consisted of apathy, lethargy, and unwillingness. Following an unchallenging freshman year and a relaxing summer, I can hardly say that I prepared for my first AP class. I knew expectations in AP classes were high because they’re college level introductory courses. Known as one of the “hardest” math teachers on campus, Mr. Koyfman, had high expectations for his students. Just the mention of his name scared some students. Homework took approximately three hours to complete. Bookwork, handouts, and worksheets were assigned daily. The course wasn’t challenging, but it was my attitude that lead me downhill. One day, he asked me to see him during lunch hour. Usually there are students in his classroom either doing homework or asking him for help, but this time, it was just him and me. Mr. Koyfman boldly told me not to take the AP Calculus Exam explaining that I would without a doubt fail. With that
Mathematics has always been a challenge for me. I believe that math is the hardest subject in school. I have many memories of learning math through the years including elementary, middle, high school and college.