erhswimming

Everybody had an A in my class (about 25-30) but only I got a 5. A few others passed while the rest got 1's. The other history class had two additional 5's and a lot more passers just because the teacher there actually taught and the students actually listened. In my class we just ate Chick-Fil-A breakfast every day and chatted or slept or caught up on other homework.

fluxxii

I got on average a B+ (although throughout the year I was mainly getting B+s) in APUSH while everyone else had As. My teacher said that my work was at the C level range and she predicted that I would get a 2. I got one of the few 5s in my class.

VFrizz

It was like, impossible to get an A in my APUSH class. A bunch of us (like 10? out of 32) had A-'s, but the class average was like a B/B-. However, everyone got either a 5 or a 4, so I don't think the class grade is an accurate predictor of your score...

sgtpepper08

about 30% of the people my class had A's. Three people had A+'s. Most of the rest had B+'s and B's, there were maybe 2 C's. Everyone passed, I think 30% got 5s (the people that got A's)and 60% got 4s and there were a few 3's. Our teacher was amazing though.

Ilovesoftball44

At my school only 1/5 of the class recieved an A and only 3 people got a 5.

FMKeyClub

Well, we only have 14 people at our school taking AP US History. I'm not sure what our grades are, or what last year's AP scores were. I do believe that the vast majority of last year's class passed with a 3 or above.

ed1229

Actually in AP Chem, the teacher recycles last year's lab, tests, quizzes, etc... so the guys who got A's, many of whom bought last year's binders, got 4's while the guys who got B's got 5's.

But yeah, a 5 in a AP doesn't mean you'll get an A because the difficulty of every school, class, and teacher varies. And it is IMO a lot easier to get a 5 cuz u only need 60 something percent on the exam itself.

scuba723

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.

erhswimming

^ Yea, I would have agreed with you except for the fact that my teacher sucked. My AP Lit class was similar to yours in grading, except with a nice curve at the end the first semester (when it was still listed as Eng. III Hons.) The grades were pretty accurate reflections on what people got on the exam.

My AP USH class on the other hand, our teacher basically talked at the front of the room 40% of the time, and the rest of the time we just hung out for that 1 1/2 hr. block. It was great for napping or bringing in breakfast from Panera or Chick-Fil-A. He would assign huge amounts of questions for homework, so we would split it up 10 ways and send each other the answers. He knew about it and didn't seem to care. Also, we all basically failed every one of his tests (well I usually got C's and D's haha) but he gave us a lot of points back if we did "test corrections." All this made me have to buy two review books and cram the week before the test in order to do well on the AP exam.

These classes were both my junior year, and I was surprised that I walked away with a 5 in USH and only a 4 in Lit. I guess it was just because I suck at English MC >.<

Virgil

Wow, you guys have it lucky. In my school's AP Chem class, literally everybody who takes the class gets a 5 on the AP test, yet fewer than 30% of people actually end up getting As.

mairoula517

I had an amazing APUSH class.

Only about 4 kids ended up with A's out of a class of 22, but 15 kids got 5's, and the rest got 4's. <3 Apush.

ninja.of.love

Almost everyone in my class got a 5, (50% < 5 rate) and while the class wasn't *that* hard, the grade breakdown was about like this. 15% A, 35% B, 20% C, 15% D, 15% F

That may be a little skewed from memory but the atmosphere at my school is that the class is the challenge and the AP exam is a bit of an after-thought. When I told my teacher I got a 5, even though I had not been able to attend class since November of first semester due to a disability, he responded by saying, "That was never in doubt." I wish he'd told me that earlier, I would not've pulled 4 all nighters in the 7 days leading up to the exam studying.

OffThePrairie

At my school a 93% is the lowest A, and some teachers don't round.

We only ever have one or two people who get 1s and 2s, but I don't know how many people got which grade.
For both Euro and US, I got Bs both semesters and 5s on the AP exams.

... And my GPA would shoot up by about a point and a half if an 86% were an A. Here, an 86% is the lowest possible B.

FMKeyClub

Same with 93 as the lowest A. Anything 92.5+ rounds up to 93.

86 is the lowest B. My GPA would be a 4.0 if we did that.

fluffyo1

When I was in APUSH, my teacher made a deal that if people get a 3 and above, he would change both of their semester grades to A's. Usually, only less than 1/3 people get A's in his class but since 80% passed the exam, he changed all of their grades. I find that a bit unfair since I worked my butt off in his class to get an A and then I was the only one to get a 5 on the exam. Oh well.