Last year during my Junior Year, I took AP US History and I loved it. It was my favorite class, but I was really really bad at it. I loved learning about US History though; the founding fathers, Women\u2019s Suffrage, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement. I was so passionate about it but it was clearly obvious I was way behind everyone else in my class. I would fail tests and my grades would sink, which didn\u2019t help because there wasn\u2019t much I could do to raise the grades, since tests were worth the majority of my grade in that class. I was doing great on essays and projects, yet my tests were awful. My teacher, Mr. Rodgers, allowed our class to do corrections for the tests, so I took advantage of that. It wasn\u2019t enough to raise my grade significantly. Around Thanksgiving break, I decided to make a change. I started studying for tests with other people, I asked friends for help. We would meet the day before the test to go over notes, study guides, and concepts I didn\u2019t understand. It really helped to talk with other people about the material and hear concepts multiple different ways from different people. Another resource I started taking advantage of was my teacher. Mr. Rodgers was a godsend. He made sure I understood things, and we met frequently before school so that I could go over things I just didn\u2019t get. He let me do corrections and retakes and made sure that I understood the material while still getting decent grades, instead of only caring about what the grades looked like. I worked hard, I studied a lot, and I asked questions. So many questions. I tried my best, and sometimes I wanted to give up and forget about it but I couldn\u2019t do that. I took the AP test in May, and thanks to my friends and Mr. Rodgers, I surprisingly got a 3 and passed. I was so happy and thankful for people that gave me strategies and solutions to not understanding it.<\/p>\n
Last year during my Junior Year, I took AP US History and I loved it. It was my favorite class, but I was really really bad at it. I loved learning about US History though; the founding fathers, Women\u2019s Suffrage, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement. I was so passionate about it but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4111,4117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-essay-submissions","category-september-2017"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}