Changing grade for doing well on AP Test?

rfav32
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:32:47 +0000

I am taking Calculus AB right now and I have a poor grade however it is by no means due to laziness. I study the most for that class than any other, the rest of my grades are A’s. I have cried over this because I study hours about 8-12 for the tests and still do poorly. It is not that I don’t understand the material I do but it is either nerves or something a cause that I do poorly. A lot of times I swear it is stuff he expected us to know but I never learned it with my prior math teachers. I have read other AP books like Barrons AP Calculus and I understand the problems I have taken a practice test and according to it I would get a 4. I am going to take a lot more practice tests so I get a 5 on the AP test or attempt to.

I know some may think my grade should not be changed because it’s not “fair” and I agree if I had slacked off all year and just crammed in 1 month. But that’s hardly possible and not the case. I pour my heart out studying for that class. I study about 2 hours a day and before a test 8-12. For my other classes I study about an hour a day and before a test I study about 2-3 hours. And yet I do worst in Calculus. I understand the material and I don’t think I should stay with the grade. I don’t know why it is I have been doing bad but I do get the material and have worked really hard but it hasn’t been shown by my grade in the class. A 5 means an A doesn’t it? This class has really frustrated me because I work so hard and yet I still do bad but I do comprehend the material and I know with hard work I could get a 4-5 on the AP test, with just one practice test I scored a 4 but I don’t have a B in the class and I still have about 4 months to study for the AP test.

Do you guys think it is fair? If not could you please say why? I haven’t been lazy I have worked really hard in that class and don’t sleep from how much I study for it, it’s just my grade doesn’t reflect my effort. One problem perhaps that our tests are always out of around 10. So if I get 6 instead of 9 that’s the difference between an D or an A yet I comprehend the 3 I got wrong. This always happens because I am just so nervous ever since I did bad on my first test. I shake every time I am taking one and I have thrown up from nerves and gotten sick from all the stress this class has brought me.

Thanks.