Exeter has a small student to teacher ratio, resulting in smaller classes and very individualized attention for each student. The Harkness Method is the highlight of Exeter's curriculum, and its educational properties extend far beyond the classroom. The Harkness Method is used in nearly every class, allowing for probing discussion on a breadth of topics at intellectual levels rare at most secondary schools. This discussion-based class setting warrants a high level of class participation, thus requiring students to be fairly familiar with the daily assignments in order to excel. The workload is fairly hefty for each course, often requiring large amounts of reading, but active class participants are rewarded in grading, as borderline grades are usually bumped up if interest is shown in class. For this reason, emphasis is placed on a student's willingness to learn, improve, and ask questions, rather than strictly exam scores. That said, many humanities-based courses do not give exams, as essays and discussion are stressed more in those classes. As is true with most boarding schools, teachers are very accessible outside of the classroom, with flexible tutorial hours in the evening (most offering help until 10 PM on some nights). Student tutors are also available for nearly all subjects, should teachers not be sufficient. The classes themselves are usually not straightforward high school courses, due to the Harkness method. Math courses are also in a discussion-setting, and the textbook is a packet of application-based word problems compiled by Academy math teachers . Students usually complete a problem set each night and demonstrate at least one problem on the board for their classmates the next day without previous guidance by the teacher. The teacher is a facilitator of discussion even in mathematics courses, and mostly explain difficult concepts and prod the students in their own derivations and discoveries in the problem-solving realm. Like so, English courses are often simply hour-long discussions on the night's readings, as are History courses. While so-called "AP courses" are not offered, college-level courses are denoted with an asterisk on the schedule and transcript, and students often perform at outstanding levels in their corresponding AP exams, despite not having followed the AP curriculum directly. There is considerable breadth in the curriculum, with courses in anthropology, electronics, computer science, print-making, psychology, economics, Russian, and a multitude of other liberal-arts classes made available to all students. The school facilities offer a mini anthropological museum, a geological rock collection, an astronomic viewtower, and countless other state-of-the-art facilities. As a freshman, one should expect about three hours of homework per night, not including extracurricular activities. Sophomore: 3-4 hours Junior: 4-5 hours Senior: 4-5 hours