That IS pretty damn smart.

But it needs to do something with the class average.

Why? Why should I care what people around me got? I care about being educated, not about being 'smarter' than everyone else.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]...which is why I said her High School probably is either hard, or her College is easy. Most people will agree that there's a lot more work involved in College than in High School. Honestly, I've not done a damn thing since I started High School except write a few papers, and I've maintained A's and B's in honors/AP classes.[/QUOTE]
well maby your HS is the easy one then. get prepared for college, cause if it's comming for you, your view of HS will not = collage

My high school at the moment is, but my old one was in the top 3 in the state and was known for its intensive core studies program. It was not easy--I'm just good at managing my time so I can get what little homework I do have done in school. There's a big difference between High School and College--in High School, you learn the material that is presented to you during class. In College, the material is presented to you during class, but you learn it at home through homework. Trust me, I don't need a "rude awakening", because I know it's coming. It's just that why put effort out now when I can get the grades I do with little to no effort?

Eh? You don't have to worry about what scores other people receive.

Dj Yoshi - if you dont have to put in effort to get them, dont. no one said you had to.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]...which is why I said her High School probably is either hard, or her College is easy. Most people will agree that there's a lot more work involved in College than in High School. Honestly, I've not done a damn thing since I started High School except write a few papers, and I've maintained A's and B's in honors/AP classes.[/QUOTE]

That's going to depend of your course of study. Anything in the hard sciences is going to tbe a lot more work, and it's usally very hard work. Other courses of study will require a lot more reading. Of course, I've had classes at Cal, which is a world renound university, where I don't even go to class and still get an A or B. It's all really going to depend.

I do when their scores affect my score.

But only positively. No one gets dragged down because of a curve.

Curves are unfair in many cases, I agree

In my physics class last year, I was the only one who understood it because I'm at a more advanced math level than most in my grade. I got 100% on a test where the rest of the class' average was a 49%. She curves every test, her policy making the highest grade earned 100% and taking the points lost off of their grade. I find this unfair in a way, but does make everyone's grade better but the same point total, just not by the same ratio and percent, but I don't see why those with higher grades should care how well the low-levels did. What wasn't fair was that she decided to "disregard" mine when figuring out the curve, and I got 100%, same as the other "highest grade in the class" which was around 75% origionally.

A curve I do agree with was like our math curves last year. Lynn, our teacher, believed that tests should be have problems no more difficult on tests than quizzes. She didn't believe in suprising us with more difficult problems on tests than we'd ever seen before. So on all her quizes she had a predetermined curve of every two points lost we'd get 1/2 a point back. This allowed for taking difficult quizes of test-level without being completely sure of the material, as a quiz should be. This type of curve I agree with, especially in this case.

That's one thing I'm looking forward to, College.

I'm a sophmore in a private high school right now, and have two older siblings who are a sophmore and junior in college right now. The school I'm at is a "college prep school" and the work we do here is harder than most colleges. It's nice, 'cause after we graduate we have a break. Most people from my school don't evn go to class their entier freshman year of college because they're so far ahead, unless they're at MIT or another more difficult school. If it's just a State school or something they're all set!

that works, untill you hit the teacher's attendance policies and FA (falure due to absences) a few with out realising it.

A lot of college courses don't have that. You just have to show up for exams. Especially state ones.

Private colleges, however, are different on the whole.

Well, at most colleges, if you choose to miss classes, you are just hurting yourself (you paid that expensive tuition).

It all depends on the individual class.