Is a 5 on the AP test = A?

advantagious
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:48:17 +0000

This does happen rarely at my school. The only teacher that I had who did it was my APUSH teacher–if you got a 5, he would retroactively change your first semester grade to an A. (2nd semester was easy because pretty much everyone got an A on the final (a project–finals are 20% of our semester grades), so he only offered to change 1st semester. I already had an A, so I was out of luck :(. I wished my BC teacher would have done it, because I got a B+ first semester, but oh well.

We have a pretty good AP program–I think most of the teachers are qualified and are teaching the subject both for academic gain and to prepare for the test, not just one or the other. Kids are not forced to take the AP exam, but many do, especially in the bread and butter courses (history, calc, english) where the teachers lean on you pretty heavily to take the exam.