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Old 11-18-2007, 04:01 PM   #1
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Get an A is harder than 5 in AP US History

In my AP US History class, one-quarter of students are getting an A. This may not sound bad. But in the past two years, over 60% of students in my school got a 5 in AP US History exams. Yet there were less than one-quarter of students got an A in both semesters.

Getting an A in the class requires averaging over 90%. Our tests (MC and FRQ) are all in AP exam level, and my teacher does not curve.

What is the standard to get an A in your school?
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Old 11-18-2007, 05:19 PM   #2
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At my school an 86% is an A. We don't have AP classes, though, so I'm not sure how helpful this information is.
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Old 11-18-2007, 06:05 PM   #3
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At my school probably a 5th get an A, and a little less get a 5
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Old 11-18-2007, 06:27 PM   #4
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AP US: 5% get 5s in my school. And maybe 30% have A averages.
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Old 11-18-2007, 06:42 PM   #5
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when i took apush my sophomore year (i'm a senior now), we had like 20% of people get 5's. a ton of people had A's in the class, because our daily homework assignments consisted of a tonnnn of points, and also there were a ton of opportunities for extra credit.
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Old 11-18-2007, 06:46 PM   #6
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Heh, I haven't taken the USH AP test yet, but if the stats from last year say anything, no one will do well.

AP World History teacher literally let people sleep in class, easy multiple choice tests, 1 page "essays" (...chapter summaries). TWO people out of the class of 900 (TWO!!) even passed, myself and some guy. And even then we only passed with 3s, and I know in my case it was only because I watch the news and read books and such...no thanks to him. He's being fired this year for his repeatedly abysmal results.

99% of the class had A's. Easy class, zero learning.

Our USH teachers are much the same.

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Old 11-18-2007, 07:00 PM   #7
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0% got 4 or 5's in the 90 who took my teacher's class last year, and about 20% got 3's...realize that I go to a "competitive" hs (prescreened to get in) and there are lots of grade restrictions to get into APUSH-so it's only the best history students...

...she even bragged to us that one of her students got a 1 last year. OW!
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Old 11-18-2007, 07:00 PM   #8
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We allllll get A's but only I will get a fiveeeeee!!
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Old 11-18-2007, 07:28 PM   #9
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0% get 3,4, or 5. (I WILL get a 5 this year...probably the only one).

about 40% get A's
about 40% get B's
15% get C's
5 % get D's and F's

mind you, these statistics are out of 1 period of APUSH with 20-25 students in it.
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Old 11-23-2007, 10:59 PM   #10
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In our class a lil over half get 5's, and a lil under half get As. Sounds fair to me!

I think As should correlate with mostly 5s, some 4s,
Bs should correlate to mostly 4s, some 3s,
Cs should correlate to mostly 3s, some 2s,
Ds and Fs to students that are at 2 or 1 level.

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Old 11-24-2007, 07:50 AM   #11
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In my class of 25 only about 20% have A's, but normally in the end of the year 90% of the class gets 5s.

She is a mad good teacher, rigorous as *** and no games.
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Old 11-24-2007, 12:14 PM   #12
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There are three or four As (including A-) in my class of 20 right now. I don't know how many people will get 5s, but it's higher than average.
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:06 PM   #13
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in my US history class last year, a majority of the class got A's but only some got 5's
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:31 PM   #14
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i had a B+ first semester and a B second semester for APUSH, and i got a 5 on the test. very few people in our class actually took the test, and the average grade of the ones that did was probably a 2 or 3.
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Old 11-24-2007, 04:27 PM   #15
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um, last year for APEC only 3 people (including me ) got 5's even though everbody else got A's. this year for USHeverybody has B's and there are a few A's (i have one so i'm hoping to get a 5 on the test this year but who knows).
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