So, I left scratch pretty abruptly in November 2023 without any stated reason. My reason was that I was starting high school and needed to lock in. Today, I remembered that this account existed and decided to give a brief update of where I'm at now and also to shamelessly flex my SAT score that I grinded for. Today is an unusual day because I don't have much work to do, as I have 5 APs to study for in May and also the ACT in 2 days. Since I started my junior year, I have been constantly busy with my 7 magnet/AP classes, and have not kept up very much with my hobbies (sadly haven't worked on a conlang since August). Sorry for the flex/rant/abrupt exit/yap/potato. Update April 26: I decided to also flex my ACT score now that I have it. To be honest, the only reason I'm doing this is because I simply have to flex these scores somewhere, but my school is extremely toxic and hypercompetitive already, and I don't want to contribute to that. Update May 5: Just took AP Chem this morning, I think I probably got a 5, but it could be a 4 because I was lowkey falling asleep during the frqs so my answers kinda sucked. I did do like 300 or so practice mcqs, and I finished that section in 45 minutes, so I'm hoping my mcq score is high enough to outweigh my mediocre frqs. If I get a 4, I'm officially blaming it on the fact that the desmos in bluebook was tweaking out during one of the long frqs and cost me a few minutes of time and a bit of my steadily dissipating sanity. One AP down, four to go (World on the 7th, BC Calc on the 11th, Lang on the 13th, and Stat on the 20th). Update May 7: Took AP World this morning, prolly got a 4. The mcqs were surprisingly easy, and the saqs were around the difficulty I expected. I expected to do poorly on the dbq, but I lowkey hit flow state and wrote a fire dbq. I completely sold on the leq tho. On other APs this would probably be enough to get a 5, but sadly the AP World curve is pretty weak (especially compared to BC). The next exam is BC on the 11th, which is definitely my most important exam to get a 5 on. That also means that I have prepared extensively for it, so I'm actually feeling good about it. Update May 12: I took BC yesterday, I'm confident I got a 5. The curve for that exam is insane, so me getting roughly 80% of the points earns me a clean 5. The only frq where I know that I messed up was on the lagrange error bound (which is a formula we ALL forgot btw). Other than that, the whole mcq section was free, especially the calculator problems, and the other frqs were not that bad. AP Lang is tomorrow, so basically just writing 3 yapper essays and getting a solid 4. Update May 13: I think I may have just barely managed to get a 5 on Lang because I lowkey cooked on my first two essays (the argument essay was okay). I checked the curve on albert this morning and saw that if I get almost perfect on the mcqs (which I have done consistently on practice), and get 4/6 on each essay, I get the lowest 5 ever. So, I'm hoping the curve is similar this year, because I probably got a very low 5 if it is. Now I get a whole week until my next (and last!) AP, which is Stat on the 20th. Stat should be easy, and I'm not particularly worried about it. Update May 22: I took AP Stat two days ago, it went around how I expected. The mcqs were actually the freest thing ever, I finished them in like half the time. The frqs were honestly kinda rough, just because they took so damn long to write out (on paper, my wrist started hurting near the end). I didn't have enough time to finish frq 6, but I think I did pretty well on the other five. Anyway, stat has a pretty strong curve, so that's very likely a 5. These instructions are getting kinda long.
