<p>At my school it’s not uncommon for students to have As but get 1s on exams. I know one student with Cs, Ds, and Fs who gets higher scores than many students with As. It’s a shame that teachers aren’t really qualified to do a better job, but I suppose you work with what you have.</p>
<p>My freshman year I had a bad AP teacher and was one of the very few to score a 3 on the exam (everyone failed because she didn’t cover anything appropriate), and I got a B (many failing students got As). I didn’t get the A that I (initially) worked for because out of ~20 assignments she would collect in a grading period, she would only end up grading a random 3-4 due to “time constraints.” Unbelievably unfair, and not a good tone set for high school. The next grading period I ended up slacking off a lot more. I still got a B that grading period. I’m just thankful now that it was a B and not something arbitrarily lower!</p>