AP Results are Here

Yes, yes they did come out on Saturday and I am writing about them today, but I am honestly so full of emotion that I have to say something!!!

This year I took 5 tests, and that about killed me off. Can I tell you a little bit about test week?

It went a little something like this:

My first test took place on Monday afternoon May 5, 2014. It was Psychology. I was so prepared for that test you have no idea. I love the topic and I studied HARD. I was ready. In fact Mack and I were goofing off before the test we were so ready. we had these little shells that looked like horns and she turns to me and goes, "Brigitte, I'm a Unicorn." with the shell up to here forehead and I grab mine and put it to my nose "Well I'm a Narwhal". Yeah, just a bit pumped and slightly slap happy. But then the test was easy. It really was. It didn't do a lot with chemicals,which I had studied religiously to get them straight. It didn't mess with the nervous system, which would have been a struggle. It left out half the names. yeah, it was easy. and then the free response, I about yelled Hallelujah. There was a stats question; easy, and the other question was just as easy. I walked out of there knowing I had done well enough to get at least a 5. and at the risk of jinxing myself, didn't say anything. But lo and behold, July 5th comes and I got a 5.

My next test was AP Literature and Composition on Thursday morning May 8, 2014. I was prepared for this one too. I spent all Tuesday and Wednesday studying works of literature. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, Things Fall Apart, some Frankenstein; a Modern Prometheus and just to round it out I did study some Anthem. I was ready for this test. Mack and I were desk partners again, and all went well. the Multiple choice was just fine, there was a sonnet and I was mad (and about half the class was too) because they didn't ask us what kind of sonnet it was, we all knew it was Shakespearean, gah. But we all spoke too soon because the poem we had to analyze for the essay was also a sonnet, so in the end we got our sonnet and dissected it too. Our prose section wasn't half bad, and I'm pretty sure I did well on both of those. But then I read the prompt for the free response. It was about sacrifice and in that moment I wished I had studied The Metamorphosis even though I hated it with a fiery passion. it would have been perfect, but I wrote a perfectly good essay on Hamlet. How he had to sacrifice his relationship with Ophelia,  his dignity and his standards (I think, I can't remember exactly). I must have done something or everything:) right because I got a 5!!!

However I got home from the test that afternoon and didn't finish my stats assignment like I said I was going to. Instead I was feeling sick and went to sleep. Later, Mack and Katelyn came over after I had woken up and done my stats assignment. We studied some stats and then went to the review session. Where we did more stats. I got home and I went to bed because I wasn't feeling well. I woke up the next morning and got dressed to go take two tests: AP Language and Compositions and AP Statistics. I had dreaded this day all year, because 2 tests in one day? Killer. But now. I was sick on top of all that. I wasn't feeling well at all. I asked my family to pray for me, and my best friend, and I was praying like none other. I don't think I would have made it through those tests without the help of my Heavenly Father.

So AP Language and Composition, Friday morning, May 9,2014, in a down pour of rain. For the first time in a long time I actually wanted and was excited for a test. I just wanted to write those essays, because honestly, in the Language tests you get to give your own opinion and that's totally kosher. The Multiple Choice was hard though. there was a lot of it and it was dense. I spent too much time trying to decipher the first passage and by the time I got to the 5th I had to skim in order to finish before the time limit. But there was a piece from a supreme court justice about why people should vote and stuff, really I should find that because I absolutely LOVED it and wanted to spend so much time on it, but I couldn't. In fact I had people tell me later that they thought of me when they read it, isn't that so sweet?  And then we got the essays and they made my day.  The first one was about college and paying for it, I was so ready for this source one and I was even able to cite some outside sources. The Letter from Abigail Adams to her son John Quincy was a little bit more difficult, but I made it work. And then we had an essay that was all us and all about . . . CREATIVITY.  and Creativity in the school system which honestly I've actually thought a lot about. I rocked it, or at least felt that way, and my score agrees, 5!! and while sick.

The counselors were kind enough to provide lunch for those of us who would be sticking around to take the stats test. so we ate and chatted and then we went back to take the test. My headache had returned which was so yucky you can't even imagine. and I was back to feeling ill. I said a little prayer. Mack deserted me. We'd taken every test together and then Sara stole her away. but that was a-okay Hannah and I teamed up.

Ap Statistics, Friday Afternoon, May 9,2014. The multiple choice was fine, there were a couple that I struggled with but I finished kind of early and went back over and then struggled some more and then was done. I still had time to spare. One of my pencils needed sharpening, so I pulled out my sharpener near the end and was sharpening it (I couldn't decide if I was going to use pencil or pen on the FR). Anyway, as I sharpened I could see that Chelsey, who was at the table next to me, was a bit peeved at that so I stopped. She told me at break that for some reason it ticked her off and she couldn't explain it. So the Multiple choice was fine. And then we had the free response which was what I worried about anyway. And they had 2 probability and it made me mad because  they aren't supposed to have two probability!!!!!! but that was okay and the Hypothesis test was okay too, except I realized 4 days later while talking to someone about the test that I had just barely messed up the formula and I started kicking myself about that. . . oh well. the test was pretty good after all of that and I was still worried about it even if I was pleased. But  . . . and this is the score I am most proud of  . . . I got a . . . 5!!!! *Happy Dance* I got a 5 on a math test, whoot, whoot!!!

but I went home that day and crashed. That weekend was Mother's day weekend and my family had plans with both grandmas. I wasn't able to be with either of them. On Saturday I was laid out all day watching tv and sleeping. and Sunday I couldn't go to Idaho and was left home alone again sleeping and reading all day. it was a bummer. However, I was determined to go to school on Monday as I had one final AP test and the class was that day. but I got up on Monday morning and I could barely stand, I almost collapsed. Needless to say, I stayed home on Monday and by Tuesday I was sufficiently recovered to go to school. I think what happened was I stressed myself into sickness. It's called a conversion disorder, but I'm all good now.

My final test was AP Comparative Government and Politics, Friday Morning May 16, 2014. The same day as the Orchestra state festival. the multiple choice was fairly easy and I did just fine I thought. there were a few things that I worried about, but mostly it was fine. Our class is super small for AP (only 20) of us and so we took the test at the school, in the cramped library conference room. it was fine though. Then we had the free response. Some of them I looked at and thought 'whaa'. But they were mostly common sense and I was done with about 45 minutes to spare. It was the longest waiting time EVER. But I was confident in my test and I was right to be so because I got a 5, even though Carissa and I couldn't group test . . . that was a bummer.

So My AP testing is all over and done. I am so happy with my straight 5's (though that was just this year). of my 8 AP tests I am proud to say that I have only one 4 to my name, and I am proud of it as well. I mean it was BC Calc, I was happy I freakin' past that test.

I am so grateful for my prayers being answered, because without His help I never would have made it through AP Lang and AP Stats. I would have collapsed or failed, but I did neither and I have the college credit to show for it. Whooooohoooooo!!!!