Today I took the Math A Regents. In New York at the moment, there are two main math courses everyone has to take: Math A and Math B. Soon they’re going back to the old way of doing it, with separate classes per topic, but right now this is how it is. Each course is a year and a half, and today, being the half-year mark of my second year in highschool (10th grade, everyone), I had to take the Regents, which is like a big state final-ish thing.
It was easy as pi (pun intended). There’s only one question I know I screwed up on. You see, we use degrees in Math A, not radians (which are in Math B). The calculators default to radian mode, so you have to remember to set it back. Before the test, people came around and reset all the calculators, and everybody, including me, set them back to degree mode. However, I decided to store some variables for one of the questions, since it would be easier that way. After I was done with the question, I cleared the calculator again to clear the variables. I forgot to set the calculator back into degree mode, so the trig question which came later was most likely completely wrong. I bet they’ll give me partial credit since I did everything right, I just screwed up, lol. Everything else though, I expect to be right, so I think I got an A. Like I said, it was easy as 3.141592653589793 (all I can remember off the top of my head at the moment).
Uh, I’ll blog again tomorrow. I have no test tomorrow so I’ll be home ![]()