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conTAgi0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States335 Posts
December 12 2011 03:20 GMT
#21
It's not mentioned explicitly, so I have to assume you are on a semester system and are nearing the end of fall semester. In that case I would strongly advise you to at least finish the semester. Colleges and universities will notice if you drop a course late in your fall semester of senior year. Really if you're that close to the end of the semester anyways, there is no good reason not to see it through.

If that's not the case, or you're considering not taking it next semester or whatever, I would still encourage you to stick with it, for a few reasons.

First, to be frank it sounds as though you aren't nearly as good at music theory as you think you are. 20 intervals should take at most 5 minutes to identify, even if they're all crazy ones like triply augmented 10ths or whatever. If it's taking you significantly more than that then you clearly are nowhere near proficient in them. Transposition is also important to know, even if it's not on your final, and also shouldn't take much time to do. I assume those assignments sound "stupid" to you because you see them as unnecessary, but if you truly had little or nothing left to learn from them, then they would take you so little time that they would not be a "burden" at all. You may think you've learned most of the curriculum for the full year, but based on your stated examples, I think you would learn a lot by leaving your ego at the door and taking the class more seriously.

Second, you might be able to get out of a semester or two of college theory, either directly if it's AP theory or by testing out, if you have a firm grasp of the basics (probably up through basic four part harmonies). That would be well worth it.

Lastly, your teacher hating you is unfortunately not a compelling reason. The occasional lousy teacher/professor is inevitable, and while it sucks, it's usually not worth dropping a course over. I've found that when teachers dislike me, if I make a concerted effort to always be polite, humble, and completely on top of homework and tests in their class, they notice fairly quickly and become much less unpleasant. I would try that and see if she doesn't become much easier to deal with.

Best of luck.
d3_crescentia
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4054 Posts
December 12 2011 04:31 GMT
#22
If you're comfortable with material and you think you can get the score you want on your own, then drop the class and take the AP test in May. That's all that really matters from a credit standpoint.

I don't think colleges will really care too much if you dropped the class and passed the test with flying colors. If you're really ambitious you could learn beyond the first level class; some colleges will have additional placement tests to let you bypass intermediate theory courses.
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Br3ezy
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States720 Posts
December 14 2011 21:26 GMT
#23
Ok let me clarify some things.

The teacher - A lot of people said dropping a class isn't a compelling enough reason to drop the class in itself. I am aware of that and that was not my reasoning either. I can live with bad teachers and do their stupid shit. I already do that in a couple of my other classes and i'm not going to drop them just because I have a bad teacher.

The class - I am taking IB music theory, a year round course. In order to recieve IB credit, I have to take IB music theory II, which I won't be able to take because its a year long course and I am a senior so I can't take it next year because ill be in college.

I never said I was a genius at music theory or anything, but compared to everyone else in the class I am. We just took our unit test today and it was on simple intervals and identifying P1, m2, M2, m3, M3, and P8 intervals ( i know not even all of them wtf). We were given 45 minutes to complete the first half of the test in class and I finished in 5 minutes. Then i took another 5 minutes to go over the whole test and do every problem again to double check my work.
What I dislike about the class is that it isn't as "rigorous" as I would like it to be. The content is too easy and the pace is too slow and if I dropped it, I would be able to learn at a preferably faster pace then continuing on with the class.
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