atrophicwhisper

2007

Chem-4: Considering that honors didn't prep me very well and was a waste of time, I couldn't have done it without my AP Chem teacher. She was awesome and we didn't waste any time.

US Govt-5: Really easy, but my teacher overprepped us. I think the pass rate at my school is pretty high. Probably could have self studied it, but my teacher nonetheless gave us some pretty good practice (some other things were irrelevant, but that's OK.)

Calc AB-5: Didn't know anything about Calc. Teacher wasn't that great, but he taught me enough.

English Lang-4: OK, we seriously just screwed around until about a month before the AP test. Everyone else in the class was freaking out, but somehow, a ton of us passed the test magically. Not that much credit goes to my teacher.

2008

Bio-4: Absolutely couldn't have done it without my teacher. She was very interesting, informative, and fun. I always laughed in her class.

English Lit-4: We did so much work. I don't even know how I did that well, considering that on my practice tests I always got low multiple choice and essay scores (to the point where I'd probably get a 2.) My teacher was awesome; she didn't waste my time unlike other teachers. It was definitely rigorous, but worth it, and I'm not even all that interested in lit. My teacher gets credit for somehow helping me think more critically.

Calc BC-4: OK, I slacked a bit in this class and that was pretty much the entire attitude in the class, but that's all right. We had an entire year to do very little work, so I probably could have self-studied again, but the class in general was pretty good.

xRoqqstarrx

I say my teachers should get ALL the credit if I pass. I had two AMAZING teachers for AP World History. They got us quality textbooks from Bentley and Zeigler(two guys who WRITE the AP Exams), they researched review books, set up morning, afterschool, and weekend tutorings...and I swear, they were PROPHETS. Both stressed essay-writing so we studied the rubrics and wrote tons of essays throughout the year...and two of them showed up on the AP! One of them we wrote the week before!

I don't have my score yet so I'm not sure how I did, but I really think I passed.

(but I failed...there will be hell to pay, lol)

just kidding...

bartleby

I only sat for 5 exams over the course of high school that were based on AP courses I took. Out of those, I'm certain I failed one due to my laziness and incompetence, got 5s on two that I would have received regardless of whether I even took the class at all, got a 3 purely from listening to roughly half the teacher's lectures (so despite that particular teacher's awful reputation, he was pretty solid), and I don't know what I got on the fifth exam, but very little of the credit is due to that teacher (largely because I spent more time outside his class than in it.)

JoeTrumpet

For this year:
Micro - 5 - This teacher was given this class one week before school started. He knew nothing about econ, and they gave him no time whatsoever to prepare. However, he did a great job considering his circumstances, and so part of my score goes to him.

Macro - 4 - same teacher, but by this point in the year it was all chaos. I can't say I give much of any of my score on this one.

US Government - 4 - Same teacher again. I feel like I let him down by getting a 4 in the class he taught best. He did a great job teaching it, and the fact that I didn't get a 5 was completely my fault.

English Lit - 5 - We had a solid literature teacher, but after I finished the MC I thought, "Well, there really wasn't much preparation for that at all." He covered many works of literature and did a great job helping us with writing (especially analyzing poetry), so he deserves some credit. But I got a 5 on English the year before (that teacher deserved almost 0 credit) so I don't think I would've had a problem without this teacher.

xRoqqstarrx

^^^ ah! I meant if i failed. typo, lol

Anon_Person_1

English-absolutely none. my teacher last year deserves most of the credit for teaching me analysis techniques.
History-NOT AT ALL!

jasonlee576

English Lit-4 Ehh. Thought I might get a 5 this year. I guess I'm happy with a 4 though. Teacher "over-prepped" us with TONS of work, which I thought didn't really help much to ace the AP test but it did make me a better writer, I believe.

Gov- 5 Just read the book and paid the least attention possible to my teacher. Easy AP test overall.

Calc AB- 5 Amazing teacher and overall my favorite AP subject to date. I loved the class. I think my calc teacher deserves all the credit you can possibly give him for my score! (although I'm supposedly amazing @ calc! lol)

PHYS B- 3 damn this class. I self-studied (or at least I tried to. lol) most of it cuz my teacher never covered the other half of the test. teach. was a nice guy but just not a good teacher for AP level. In the end, it was my fault though for not gettin a 5 since I could've and should've studied it more dutifully. Yea, I failed myself, but oh well UCSD doesn't even give any good credit for this class. I get what I deserve!

deadmonkey34

U.S. History- 5 - I give my teacherl little credit, as her pass rate is sub-30% and she is reknown for doing a poor job. I do, however, give much credit to Bailey's "American Pageant."

English Language and Composition- 5 - Teacher notorious for being lazy, never taught us rhetorical modes/strategies.

Biology- 5 - Teacher gets most of the credit. He did a fantastic job, he is a local legend in biology, and even has a master's degree in biology. It was also his 20+ year of teaching A.P. bio.

t-san

AP Calc AB - I had previously taken BC, so I didn't really study, but I still give about 95% CREDIT to my BC teacher who was really tough but really good. 5 on both.

Statistics - My teacher was also my assistant decathlon coach, a great teacher and a wonderful person. She knew the material inside and outside and tested us often. I was confident that I was prepared through her, so I didn't study as much for that one; I focused on harder tests. I give her close to 100% credit for my 5.

AP Psych - My teacher was really funny and really nice, and good and she prepared us pretty well. I know that if I had studied more I would have gotten a 5 instead of my 4. I still give her a good 70-80% credit, though.

AP Chem - My chem teacher was good. Really good. She taught well and she was patient and kind. She knew her weaknesses and did her best to teach us despite them, but she was honest enough to tell us that we also needed to self study some areas like buffers where she felt she did a poor job of teaching. I really respected that honesty and give her about 85% credit for my 5.

AP USH - I took this in summer where I had a really difficult teacher who made sure that we knew the information inside and out. She went out of her way to give us essays and DBQs more often than we wanted. I got back to school and my Academic Decathlon head coach was the USHistory teacher there, so after state he helped me review the information. I'd give my teachers together 90% CREDIT - 70 for summer school, 20 for the regular year. 5.

AP Compsci- I really d this class after a while. I couldn't stand my hypocritical, dishonest, lazy teacher and honestly wanted to drop the class. I couldn't pay attention in his class because every lecture was interrupted by his video game references/sports/inappropriate subject matter/unprecedented tirades. I had to pretty much self study my 4 because he didn't teach Linked Lists or nodes or trees or maps or sets well enough. I'd give him 15% credit.

AP English - We wrote alot of essays. It actually bordered on obnoxiousness. But it was worth it, I practiced essays and MC alot outside of class, but my 5 was probably due 80% to her teaching.

I give my AP french teacher 100 % credit for my decision not to take the exam. Her pass rate the year before was about 15-20%, and this year it was probably no better. There was no way I was going to take it.

All in all I had mostly great teachers, just a few weaker ones.

asdfjkl1

Psych: 5- 100% =]
Govt: 5- I'll cut him some credit. I'll call it 50/50.
US: 5- Eh. 40%
World: 5. 0%. I learned NOTHING in that room...
English: 3 - 100% She sucked at teaching it.

phonyreal98

Calc BC- 5 Grade: B. Amazing teacher...class average was around a B-, but everybody except for 3 people in all her classes combined (70 kids total) got 5's.
Physics B- 4 Grade: A. Amazing teacher, except we didn't go over everything on the exam as in depth as we could have.
English Lang- 3 Grade: B. Whatever. Good teacher, but I'm not an English person.
US History- 5 Grade: A. AMAZING US history teacher. Writes the rubrics for the essays that CB uses at the essay readings each year.

Music Theory- 4 Aural, 5 Nonaural, 5 Composite. Grade: A. Whatever. I liked the guy.
English Lit- 3 Grade: B. Whatever, ditto English Lang.
Stat- Unavailable Grade: A.
Biology- 5 Grade: A. I didn't pay attention in class because my teacher was a dimwit, but studied a lot on my own.
Psychology- 5 Grade: A. My favorite class last year.

blackberry

Psychology: 3 - He and Psychology aren't a good match. Each day was spent either copying notes from the overhead or watching Discovering Psychology. I always bombed his tests, but he let us make them up by copying the correct answers. Basically, the class was too laid back. We never even took a practice AP exam.

Calculus AB: 5 - Crazy (awesome) teacher! A month before the AP exam, we had practice exams every week and practice MC/FRQs for homework every day. I've never had a teacher who cared so much about her students. No wonder she has a 95-100% pass rate! (: I almost got a C+ first semester, but she gave me a B-; I ended up get a B both semesters. But it's all good. If it weren't for her, I would have failed for sure. Math has always been my least favorite subject (630 on SAT II Math 2 eek).

US History: 4 - Pshh. I didn't learn anything in that class. I crammed using the cram packet a week before the exam. He bragged too much about how his pass rate (~30%) was better than the other teacher.

World History: 5 - Great teacher! We had an essay "study" session before every in-class essay. He gave really helpful advice. What I learned in his class really helped me with US History. We also got to watch some really interesting films. Loved that class!

Hurt

Calculus AB: 5 20% - I don't believe my teacher deserves anything. She doesn't teach that well, really. Not to me, anyway (okay for others, I suppose?). She's cool though. I still don't think she helped much except by providing tests? <_<

Biology 5 40%: I loved this teacher. I knew the first half of biology so well because of her, yet at the same time, the second half was hell-on-earth for me because we rushed through it ridiculously as we ran out of time. Zero review.-o- compromises, i guess.

Environmental Science 5 25%: Okay? I guess. One FRQ he wrote for us actually came up on the AP. So that was cool. But I think my 6 hour cram did more? Dude didn't do much for me but give me tests. Really kind teacher though. Bit of review though, so that was a'ight. And he snuck us several practice AP's on his own time.

Euro : 4 10%- Teacher was so-so. Didn't help much. Tests were easy. Zero review for us.

Half A's Half A+'s for the entire year.

thatOneStudent

Let's see...

Bio - 5: A year ago, I would've said my teacher deserved a lot of the credit. Now, I realized that, well, he's been a bit neglectful. I had to teach myself on the concepts we haven't covered in class, such as the nervous system... And a lot of his "teaching" was kind of based on what I'd already read from the book. A lot of independent work here...

Calc AB - 5: On the other hand, this teacher really deserves a lot/all of the credit. She's been THAT helpful in making calculus, well, accessible!

Chem - 5: I did learn a lot from the book, but the teacher's lectures were still helpful, such as when we've learned about how to do equilibrium problems. Clarified what I've read from the book. She was also helpful in other preparatory aspects.

Comp Sci A - 5: Between the fact that our class (well, year) wasn't meant to be an AP class and that our entire class was split into, what, 4 or 5 groups... he did the best he could. Helped me in some aspects, such as if/else statements and looping, but I studied a lot, particularly in the weeks before the exam.

buffettime

OMG I give my Physics B teacher like little to no credit aside from him assigning homework and letting us borrow PRs. Haha it's the hardest test my school has to offer and he doesn't even offer an incentive grade change even if we manage to pass the test(he had no students pass the year preceding mine) anyways I get a D 1st semester A 2nd semester in the class and pull off a 4 (I swear it must have been the only 4 he's ever gotten) and when I tell him my grade all he says is good job, your hard work payed off. If I worked so hard over the year, why can't you change my grade?