Catherine McCloskey

I had her for Marine Bio and APES. Both different environments but she acted about the same. I admire how much she knows and for me science has always been interesting so I pretty much always paid attention. For her marine bio class I would say work is medium difficulty it was more laid back than APES and you get more free time, some days are just notes but most weren't. You get class time to complete it so if you use your time you should not have homework and I often had extra time after I finished. We got to watch blue planet every week and that was a nice way to start off the week, she also had cool animals and things to look at that she has in glass bottles. I did have to study for test and what you pay attention and do in class can be enough for some people but not for me. I always did better when I did the extra credit which I highly recommend to do as it really helps you review and what is on it is on the test/quiz. For APES it was a different ballpark. I fortunately had it in first semester so we were not always rushing like second semester is. We did cool labs pretty often and she was always there to help if you needed it. Sometimes I felt like I would annoy her but she never turned me away. There is pretty much daily homework which reviews what we will learn the next day its super easy and basically a free 100 so always do that. You have fill in the blank notes and you are required to do them because you turn them in before taking your test. You also have a study guide you have to do. If you do the bare minimum on it you'll be fine but I recommend going a little more detailed when writing it as it was the best review I could do to feel more prepared. I never got above a B and pretty often got C's on her tests/quizzes. They were medium-high difficultly depending on the person. Not impossible but you cannot pass with just paying attention in class, but that is expected as it was an AP class. A few people did thought but they were just naturally good at studying and attentive and good learners. For me I always had to do more just to meet the mark. She is a cool person and I loved seeing her talk bout something she really knows, I loved asking questions. She is a no nonsense kind of person she isn't fun easy going laid back teacher but she is doing her job which is teaching and she's good at it. Not a hard class and I enjoyed it and will even miss it sometimes.