I just finished about 6 to 5 math videos and honestly I feel pretty good. This is mainly because I basically never study and still get decent grades so when I have a pretty huge test that I know I won't do good on by not studying it really gives me a boost of confidence. Also, even though I don't believe in luck my teacher said that people tend to do something if they continuously say they can do it. Like if someone said, "I'm gonna do super good on this test," they have this sort of mentality to study and work hard getting that good grade. Meanwhile, someone who says they aren't gonna get a good grade and doesn't study at all will most likely not get a good grade. But then I wonder, how come this is one of the few times I've actually studied and yet things have been going fine up until this moment? The math videos that I've been watching are some that my teacher recommended.
He said to not waste time working on those Algebraic equations like Quadratics and other stuff because we haven't learned about this yet. And plus, the high schools only want to know what your basic knowledge of Algebra is. I quote his exact words, "So if you want to get into one of those high schools, make sure to do good on that Algebra section that we've been doing for the past three weeks". Remember, this is coming from the guy who got one of the highest test scores on the SAT for his school and has been teaching for 16 years, so I'm not going to question his logic. I find it in disbelief when the kids in my class can't spell things like "together" and "Algebra" but then I realize that unlike most of them, I'm the complete opposite.
When I was coming over to my friends and we were sharing our PARCC scores I noticed that most of them didn't get above 800 in the first place (lol), but the ones that did were usually in Math. Like I bet the few students who got 800 on both were like in the top 5% of our school). Meanwhile, I get a 750 on Math (which is still super good since most students had 500 to 200s, and an 813 on ELA. I can assure you, the kids in other classes (besides the advanced one that I'm in) did not do nearly as good. Basically, to most students Math is so much easier than ELA. I can understand this is mostly because of my dad forcing me write 5 paragraphs for the past three years (I was able to persuade him to make me write only 3 now) and we never did any Math practice "together" since the Math was getting too complicated for him. I don't blame the guy, he didn't get a chance to go to a good high school or college in Tibet or India. Anyways, that's it for today's post!
He said to not waste time working on those Algebraic equations like Quadratics and other stuff because we haven't learned about this yet. And plus, the high schools only want to know what your basic knowledge of Algebra is. I quote his exact words, "So if you want to get into one of those high schools, make sure to do good on that Algebra section that we've been doing for the past three weeks". Remember, this is coming from the guy who got one of the highest test scores on the SAT for his school and has been teaching for 16 years, so I'm not going to question his logic. I find it in disbelief when the kids in my class can't spell things like "together" and "Algebra" but then I realize that unlike most of them, I'm the complete opposite.
When I was coming over to my friends and we were sharing our PARCC scores I noticed that most of them didn't get above 800 in the first place (lol), but the ones that did were usually in Math. Like I bet the few students who got 800 on both were like in the top 5% of our school). Meanwhile, I get a 750 on Math (which is still super good since most students had 500 to 200s, and an 813 on ELA. I can assure you, the kids in other classes (besides the advanced one that I'm in) did not do nearly as good. Basically, to most students Math is so much easier than ELA. I can understand this is mostly because of my dad forcing me write 5 paragraphs for the past three years (I was able to persuade him to make me write only 3 now) and we never did any Math practice "together" since the Math was getting too complicated for him. I don't blame the guy, he didn't get a chance to go to a good high school or college in Tibet or India. Anyways, that's it for today's post!
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