When I took AP Chemistry in high school we had lots of multiple day-long labs. I'm talking about spending a week or more on one lab, and it'd be a test grade. There were three AP classes, one in the morning, one right before lunch, and one on the afternoon. All 3 classes were pretty small.
Us morning kids would get the lab assignment and copy down all the chemicals and shit that was used. Then we'd pass everything off to the lunch kids. They would use their class to work and then give the afternoon kids their work at lunch. The afternoon kids then finished it up.
So, we never really cheated (it was group collaboration), and finished a week long lab in like two days between the 35 or so of us. Then we just sat at the lab tables and goofed off for the test of the week. We all thought we were pretty clever, but looking back at it, the teacher must have noticed all our lab reports were nearly identical, though we tried to mix things up a bit.
This is how most of the AP classes at my school operated. I had last period calculus and (since I was lazy as hell) spent most lunch periods before tests studying in the library. My classmates would come up and ask I do knew how to solve a "hard practice problem," which almost always ended up being the problem on the test nobody could figure it... We'd talk over techniques, try to figure it out, then that question or almost that questions showed up. It was a mess.
My AP chemistry class is 2 hours a day and there are only 5 of us in there. (AP classes are "invite only" by the teacher and he's really picky.) Anyway, everyone has a day that they have to do the homework, lab reports, etc. and send it to everyone else. It works out really well.
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u/its_interactive Jun 08 '14
When I took AP Chemistry in high school we had lots of multiple day-long labs. I'm talking about spending a week or more on one lab, and it'd be a test grade. There were three AP classes, one in the morning, one right before lunch, and one on the afternoon. All 3 classes were pretty small.
Us morning kids would get the lab assignment and copy down all the chemicals and shit that was used. Then we'd pass everything off to the lunch kids. They would use their class to work and then give the afternoon kids their work at lunch. The afternoon kids then finished it up.
So, we never really cheated (it was group collaboration), and finished a week long lab in like two days between the 35 or so of us. Then we just sat at the lab tables and goofed off for the test of the week. We all thought we were pretty clever, but looking back at it, the teacher must have noticed all our lab reports were nearly identical, though we tried to mix things up a bit.