ap exam score vs. class grade?

R124687
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:29:04 +0000

Depends. Your grade is factored into your GPA, which is the most important thing. Nothing “cancels” that grade. Though, in some high schools, they will actually change your grade to an A if you got a 5 on the exam.

Colleges will look at your APs, that’s why they ask for them. All will probably treat them a little differently. But I disagree with what most have said about the grade being more important.

The grade is given by one teacher, in one class. That grading varies WILDLY in every class/school in the country. But the AP is comparing apples to apples. So, your teacher could dislike you and give you a B+ for some subjecting portion of your grade. Or maybe you ended up sick a lot so your “attendance” portion of your grade went down. Or perhaps you had a weekend long athletic event and bombed one Monday morning test that lead to a B+.

However, you learned the material and aced the AP. Though…just sayin’…it’s just the Goverment AP…I don’t think that required course/one semester is going to stand for very much anyway.