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My APUSH class last year saw a large number of students receiving 5's, while only a few maintained A's throughout the year. Our teacher became very generous near the end of the year and started giving easy projects and nice projects to boost the grades of everyone, but through the first semester only a handful of students maintained an A average.
Honestly though, that's how it should be. Most college courses don't boast an A-average, and AP classes are supposed to be the equivalent of a college level course. My AP English Lit class is the same way -- I am one of only a few students with A's, the vast majority of students have C's, but but anyone who really pushes his or herself will wind up with a B... yet the pass rate for the AP English Lit test is very high at our school.
I work hard in school and my GPA reflects that, so I would rather be enrolled in courses that make students work for an A than courses that allow for students to slack off yet receive high grades.
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