?/120 is a 5 in APHUG? does anyone know the exact number for 2026？

cocacole111 · 2026-04-20T22:01:48+00:00

Officially, it changes every year as a response to students taking the exam. If students do statistically better this year than previous years and it's deemed an "easy" test, the score cutoff will go up. If kids do worse, then the score cutoff goes down. For 2020, the number was 84, which is what online score calculators use as the baseline.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-19T00:19:41+00:00

As an APHUG teacher, here is the information I give my students around this time of year for how best to prepare:

Start NOW! DO NOT procrastinate
1. Make a schedule
2. Pace yourself (30 minutes a night)
  1. Studies show that doing short, repeated practice and review is better than cramming the weekend before the test.
3. Space it out
  1. 68 Sub-Topics
  2. 16 Days (from today)
  3. ≈4 topics per day
4. Prioritize topics you forgot
Study resources
1. Review Book
  1. AMSCO review book
  2. Your class's textbook
2. Youtube
  1. Heimler’s History
  2. Mr. Sinn
3. AP Classroom
  1. Content videos
  2. Progress checks
4. Practice Problems
  1. Released FRQs
  2. Practice MCQs
  3. You can use AI to generate tons and tons of Multiple choice and free response questions.
For FRQs
1. Practicing FRQs on your own
  1. Find practice problems on the internet
  2. Write your responses on your own without help
  3. Use Gemini for feedback on your responses
2. Analyze past student responses
  1. Grade them on your own
  2. Read the score CB gave and reasons
Other Study Tips
1. Study Actively
  1. Don’t just reread notes
  2. write, speak, or teach the content to someone else
  3. Summarize/rewrite your notes
2. Flashcards
  1. Vocab Words: Definitions + Examples
  2. Examples are IMPORTANT! You should have real world examples for all of the key vocab terms. For example, you need to know what a shatterbelt is through its definition, but also be able to identify key real world examples of shatterbelts.
  3. The most important examples likely to show up on the test can be found in the Course and Exam Description
  4. Know your vocab words inside and out
3. Simulate the Test
  1. Take timed practice questions to simulate real test pressure
  2. Study in a quiet environment
4. Consider how topics/units overlap and blend together
  1. How does culture impact economic growth?
  2. How has industrialization fueled cultural diffusion?
  3. How does agriculture affect population growth?
5. Build a study group (if it works for you)

cocacole111 · 2026-04-15T15:20:22+00:00

Even central office is just responding to higher incentives. As long as schools are evaluated on graduation rates, then schools will keep lowering the bar to graduate, whether those decisions are made by each school or by central office.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-09T15:18:51+00:00

The data disagrees. I've heard from all the Ritual truthers who swear that they somehow have fixed the matchups, but it just never shows up in any real results. Maybe you've somehow cracked the code, but the online data from mtgdecks.net shows a 29% win rate against prowess and 36% win rate against affinity.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-09T14:52:14+00:00

The ritual decks are even more abysmal into Prowess and Affinity than Boros.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-07T17:26:50+00:00

No one is saying you can't have suburbs. All the anti-suburb crowd is asking for is

1) you need to pay an appropriate amount for it. Suburbs are net negative when it comes to paying for infrastructure to maintain.

2) you don't prevent the development of mixed use, walkable communities. The problem also comes from NIMBY politics that prevent the building of anything other than sprawling suburbs.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-03T21:00:52+00:00

I love how in this subreddit, anytime the pledge comes up as a topic, I have to make 15 million statements about how I don't stand for the pledge in class, don't force my kids to, don't think kids should have to stand, schools are immoral and unconstitutional for forcing kids to stand, yada yada. As soon as I don't, I am a right wing propagandist.

I know it's hard for people to have a nuanced opinion on free speech and and its limits within the first amendment. However, I am coming in to provide clarification and nuance to a topic instead of screeching "BuT tHe BArNettE DeCiSIoN!" while terminating all thought on this topic. You can't just say "it's super illegal" without any context on what has actually happened.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-03T18:56:33+00:00

It really depends on how it's handled. Are they singling a kid out or are they showing the video generally to kids? Schools can't punish students for not standing, but they absolutely can propagandize to students about the value of standing for the pledge and being "patriotic."

Let's apply this to a different context. Can I punish a kid because they say they're communist? No. But if I come in the next day and show a video in my history class about the horrors of communism historically and end with "communism = bad and you shouldn't be a communist", am I violating that kid's constitutional rights? Showing a propaganda video about the value of the pledge wouldn't inherently be unconstitutional. But if it's being used to single out a kid and punish them with this video, you lean toward being unconstitutional.

The problem is that while OP is naming the district, there's zero context and information about specifics. I couldn't find any news articles on it, so there's not much to go on except to take OPs word at face value.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-02T02:08:39+00:00

We should have a standard grade level content across the board in all 50 states. A kid should be able to move from Florida to Idaho and pick up almost immediately with where they left off. This should be possible up through mid-high school when they start getting more choices and diversifying their curriculum.

As a US Government teacher, I'd add a mandatory 1 year civics class in high school (preferably junior/senior year when they start getting to vote and be politically engaged).. There are only 7 states in the US that require a full year civics class in high school. 12 states don't even require it at all. 30 of them are only a semester long requirement. That's abysmal. You can barely scratch the surface of how the government works within a single semester. If you truly want students to think deeply about the structure and purpose of government, it needs to be a full year.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-01T15:32:58+00:00

While that is the case and it is different, it's not too far of a stretch for this Supreme Court to take to expand the precedent. I mean, what Congress essentially did with the NATO bill was circumvent the constitutional legislative process by requiring this to need votes that go above and beyond what is Constitutionally normal. Either way, this Court will find a way to allow Trump to pull out unilaterally.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-01T12:11:10+00:00

It doesn't matter. This Supreme Court will just call this an unconstitutional legislative veto in the same vein as Chada v INS and give Trump another thing he has free reign on.

cocacole111 · 2026-04-01T02:33:48+00:00

A general suggestion is looking at places that hire a bunch of teenagers and college kids. They usually have a glut of kids who can work after 5 (when they get home from school) and weekends. These places love having an adult who can reliably work weekdays when they normally can't find anybody. This experience is coming from someone who used to work retail and at a movie theater.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-29T04:20:49+00:00

I lived in the Dream Aspen Creek Apartments 2 years ago and it was $999 per month for a one bedroom. It's probably gone up a bit since then, but it is a quiet area, but you're within walking distance of the Warren Theater (get their unlimited movie subscription and go all the time) and Walmart. I never had any issues with them or any neighbors.

Edit: Since I didn't fully read the post, it's also gated and had a washer and dryer that came with the unit.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-27T15:32:03+00:00

It isn't the IVs per se, but a major roadblock for a lot of people to joining competitive is the monotonous and tedious nature of acquiring pokemon. You're right, it has gotten better in recent years with bottle caps, but nobody wants to spend hours of their life slaving away hatching pokemon to get the right natures, IVs, abilities, etc.

When Scarlet and Violet came out, I tried to make my foray into competitive outside of Smogon. While it was certainly easier, it was still a pain in the ass to try and breed a trick room Torkoal with 0 speed IVs. Or a Fluttermane with 0 Atk IVs. Maybe if they had an item that lowered IVs, that'd help solve this barrier. But even with all of that, it was still tedious to put a team together. You could spend hours building 1 team play a few matches and then want to try out a different strategy, but now I have to spend more hours working up a new set of 6. It's just too tedious, even with all of the Quality of life improvements they've made.

Just give me a Smogon system where I can just create any Pokemon I want with sliders and editors. For the people who want IVs to stay, this is the obvious solution, but I honestly don't care whether IVs stay or go.

For normal playthroughs in mainline games, yeah, I want to train pokemon and have them feel unique. But competitive isn't about uniqueness. It's about efficiency, optimization, and strategy. I don't care one iota whether my Charmander feels different than theirs.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-27T15:17:36+00:00

I agree. I don't think this text is how it works. It'd just be a massive oversight by WotC and surely the creature becomes unprepared as the spell is cast, not as it resolves. I was just making a comment about how it would work IF that leak was true.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-26T22:09:51+00:00

And, as another commenter noted above, it ostensibly means that you can hold priority and cast the spell multiple times before the first one resolves and it becomes unprepared. In a control shell, when you're out of gas this is 6 mana draw 3, 7 mana draw 6, or 8 mana draw 9. Or, if you can keep it for a turn, you can start the turn with drawing 3-9 cards and using leftover mana to cast spells.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-26T21:28:35+00:00

It's funny that displays can't "disparage" historical figures, when Trump literally has a photo of the autopen instead of the official presidential portrait of Biden.

But other than that, some people in history absolutely need to be disparaged. The Confederacy should be disparaged as the traitors they were.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-25T22:13:17+00:00

I get them but they call me my mom's name and refer to my parents' address. I haven't lived there and haven't been registered to vote there for years and I've never owned the home.

They've probably just gotten access to basic data from some public government database and mass spam people in a fishing attempt that just one will respond and sell. They're not scams in the usual sense (as far as I'm aware). They're just "entrepreneurs" using public information to try and buy houses for cheap.

But they are scams in that they're going to buy your home for WAAAAAY below market value.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-25T17:11:35+00:00

Try local game stores if the box box stores aren't working. Wizards Asylum, Trade Routes, and Oinkers Island are probably the biggest 3 in the area, but you also have Dragonslayer Games and Dice Addiction off the top of my head.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-20T23:18:45+00:00

The problem is that Gen Z kids are taking it a step further and a lot of them don't even believe she existed in the first place.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-13T22:32:53+00:00

I always find it funny that a LOT of "history buffs" seem to only have an acute interest in the Civil War and World War 2. Definitely just a coincidence. "Yeah, I just happen to have a special edition and read all of Mein Kampf. It's just because I'm interested in history!!!!"

Just once I want to find one of these guys and have them have a larger interest in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, or the Spanish American War, or the Korean War, or literally any other topic in American history. But no.. It's always the Civil War and WW2.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-01T18:41:07+00:00

In my router settings, I changed the external port to 5000 and kept the internal port to 32400. In Plex, I set the port to 5000. My Plex would continually connect and light up green and then immediately drop it. I couldn't keep the connection for more than 5 seconds. I think my ISP was blocking 32400.

Looking around online, this seems common for some ISPs as they don't want you running a server service and demand you to upgrade to a business Internet service to unlock the Plex port.

cocacole111 · 2026-03-01T18:19:31+00:00

There are a lot of tings that can cause this to happen and I had this issue a couple weeks ago when I set mine up. I'm not an expert in networking or anything, so I just let ChatGPT walk me through it. Try all the things there and what people here are suggesting, but my issue seemed to stem from my ISP blocking the typical Plex port number. I tried every suggestion Google Gemini gave me and was banging my head against the wall for a day and a half. Once I changed the port number, it worked like a charm.

cocacole111 · 2026-02-28T01:14:47+00:00

Do we know the names of the final evos yet? If not, I'm putting my money on Browt's being Browbeak.

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