Is a 5 on the AP test = A?

calmom
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:50:19 +0000

I think that’s just a practice of some teachers, probably to help motivate their students to try to do well on the exams. My son’s APUSH history teacher did that – I think it was something like, if the kid did all their homework in class, and got a 4 or 5 on the AP exam, then they would get an A for the course (their grade would retroactively be changed to an A if it were lower). So my son had a B that was raised to an A. None of my son’s teachers did anything like that- and my daughter ended up with some conflict with an AP English teacher who was so obsessed with trying to get the kids to score well that she tried to require kids to come in outside of school hours for extra exam prep. (My d. had enough on her plate without more hours of unneeded study time).