PA H !

It may be only April, but at this point, all of us are thinking about upcoming AP exams (well, not quite all- we love our Honors students too!), and your teachers are offering all kinds of suggestions for how to do your best on exam day. And, in case you don’t have enough exam tips already, our newspaper staff has put together our top suggestions for absolutely acing your APs. 

I took my first AP exam last year. My teacher had made sure that my whole class was very prepared, so although I felt nervous when I arrived at my exam location (a local school), it was an amount of ‘nervous’ that I could handle pretty well.

Then, partway through the Multiple-Choice Questions, I realized that the exam was relaxing, and that I was having fun. Here I was, spending my morning reading cozy poetry (the specific poem I was on featured a well-worn blue coat and a flock of chickens) and getting post-secondary credits at the same time. If I could spend every morning reading cozy poetry and getting post-secondary credits, I certainly would.

Those of you in AP Calculus probably won’t be reading poems about chickens (and if the exam does involve chicken poems, you know something’s wrong). But you don’t need the encouragement of delightful poetry to believe that you can and will put your best exam foot forward. Don’t take a nap during the exam (someone did this during my friend’s exam last year), don’t bring your Apple watch into the exam room in a brazen attempt to cheat on the MCQs, and do take a look at the latest newspaper articles if you need a study break.

We published this edition a little bit earlier than the previous two, partly because we wanted to get those study snack rankings out there, and partly because we on the newspaper team have exams as well. Which brings me to my final point: a heartfelt thanks to everyone on the staff, who have put so much time and energy into this newspaper, and to Mrs. Inspektor, our wonderful faculty advisor. I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved together in PAH!’s first year, and I can’t wait to see this newspaper continue to develop next autumn. And of course, many thanks to all of you reading the newspaper; good luck, everyone!

Luisa Ensslin, Editor-in-Chief

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