<p>Hey guys i really could use some good 'ol wholesome cc advice.
So this is my situation w/ AP scores:
Euro hist- 3
Calc ab/bc-3/3
Psych-2
lang&comp-2
(the 2s are all thanks to cruddy teachers because they were neeeew -,-)
It’s my senior year now and I am going to be taking like 6 more ap classes (b/c those teachers are way better) & i know i’m able to get a 4-5 on most, but then its too late b/c scores come out after college apps.
Should i take subject tests since ap scores are obviously aren’t in my favor?
Also i only have one more month to study 3 subject tests b4 school starts, is this even do-able?
and lastly any silver lining as to which books are a god-send when prepping for subj test?
please and thank you.</p>
<p>bump Xc</p>
<p>You don’t need to send your AP scores to colleges, so it doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>Just for the record, cruddy teachers don’t affect your score that much. If you have a bad teacher, you just need to acknowledge that (which it sounds like you have) and do more self study. I had a teacher for AP US History that pulled up a Wikipedia page everyday for 4 months and called that class, and I still got a 5. It just involved more self study. The teacher is not the biggest factor in determining your score - YOU are.</p>
<p>@rosebud30 It’s harder to self study for Lang and Comp.</p>
<p>@AnnieBeats Yes, but they still got a bad score on Psych, which is one of the easier AP exams anyway. Just look at the score distributions for this year, or the year before. </p>
<p>Subject tests aren’t much like AP exams; at least judging by the exams and corresponding tests I took the following fall - you don’t have to take them in June (though it is preferred) - I took my subject tests the fall of my senior year after receiving AP scores that spring, and I did alright with minimal studying over the summer. I don’t think there is any set correlation, but for the AP courses I received 5s in, I got mid-700 to 800 scores. Similarly, I got lower scores for the exams I got a 4 in. </p>
<p>What concerns me about your AP scores is that depending on where you go to college, you basically forfeited 15 or more credits (an entire semester+) - since most colleges don’t accept 3s - I took a 9 AP exams and received a 4s/5s on all but one (Calculus) which I got a 3 on and subsequently lost the potential credit. The fact that I have to find some way to satisfy the math requirement for my general eds at my college irritates me to no end, especially since I tested into Calculus II so I HAVE to take Calc II or a comparable course and I’m rubbish at math.</p>
<p>AP credits seem pretty abstract now, but they are a godsend when you see how much money and time you’re saving in the long run just by deciding to study for a few 3 hour long tests your junior and senior year. You said you’re taking 6 or so more AP classes your senior year - I want to warn you that second semester of your senior year (when AP exams are administered) is a time of much apathy amongst soon to be high school graduates. I know that I had bundles of more motivation to study for my Junior year AP tests (when I was operating under the notion that they would be exams that colleges would be seeing during admissions) than my senior year exams where I was basically in autopilot, figuring out what backpack to buy for college and the best places to eat around campus. </p>
<p>A lot of people don’t have such easy access to AP exams and for schools where the cost isn’t subsidized (my school subsidized them to 50 dollars an exam for students without financial need, and 10 dollars for students who were on free lunch) - they can be pretty expensive. Take your exams seriously next year, you’ll be very thankful you did. I know this is overreaching but YOU are in control of what happens to you - if you get stuck with lousy teachers, don’t just settle. Your teachers aren’t going to be the ones having to sit through pointless gen eds because you decided putting in the extra effort to self study. Your teachers aren’t going to be the ones paying for those courses either - chances are, your parents or you will. </p>
<p>Get it together, girl. (or boy.)</p>
<p>Um no. New has nothing to do with it. I am new and it’s only the underdeveloped students who don’t want to take a new teacher who isn’t old seriously, regardless of how much they should look up to someone who is accomplished in what they are working hard to achieve themselves…These are the high school students that don’t do well in a new teachers class. If anything new teachers grade easy…you just don’t have what it takes to go to college. Your professors will be less than perfect…and ten times more insane. GOODLUCK</p>