<p>Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority?</p>
<h2>DISCLAIMER: Most of this information is BS’d. I did not do that ****ty on APHG and knew most of the exam’s information.</h2>
<p>As a Chinese girl, I have been raised and taught by my parents to stick to the moral standard that is inherent to Chinese culture: respect and listen to your elders. I vowed to stick to this virtue for as long as I lived. However, after taking an AP class last year with a teacher who misguided the class and I on how to study and prepare for and what to expect from the exam content-wise and format-wise, I have learned that it is important to question the ideas and decisions that people of authority - even teachers - place upon me, regardless if they are older and supposedly “more experienced” and “wiser,” as my parents call it, than I am.</p>
<p>AP Human Geography was my very first AP class and exam that I had ever taken. My cousins before me had taken the class and been taught by the very same teacher, warning me before the school year had started to be wary of what he would tell us. I did not take their words to heart, though, for I had simply been rasied to not question those above me.</p>
<p>Throughout the duration of the AP Human Geography class, I credulously listened to what my teacher would lecture on about in class. He had informed the class that the exam would cover only a few select topics, of which he said he would graciously highlight out for us in brief, summarized lessons as he, additionally, claimed that topics did not go into detail for AP Human Geography. Moreover, he asserted that the essay portion was actually weighted 15% of the total score and that Collegeboard’s “claims” that it is 30% are false, reiterating over and over again how the essay portion would thus have no dire effect on us. To support this, he only had the class write essays four days before the exam, stressing that we would not need to practice them that much.</p>
<p>Needless to say i was blown away when the AP exam came. The questions on multiple-choice were, in fact, quite specific, and covered a wide array of topics, most of which my teacher did not cover because he had told us the exam would not test them. My heart broke into pieces when it came to the ssay portion; I found it difficult to write out essay answers that were organized and coherently developed. Furthermore, I had even ended up not labeling what numbers and parts each essay was in the blank boxes that were located on the upper right-hand corners of each essay page.</p>
<p>To this day I am confounded as to how I even procured a 4 out of 5 on the AP Human Geography exam. I had guess on more than half of the multipkle choice questions and even had failed to do something as simple as label my essyas, all of which I improvised and feigned knowledge in. Nonetheless, after this ordeal, I realize that it is not healthy to blindlessly follow others’ words, even those of authorities. It is vital that one should always remain vigilant and on their toes, analyzing any ideas and decisions that people, especially those of higher positions, impose, else he or she end up in an unsuccessful outcome, one that I luckily manage to averse from.</p>