<p>As our final exam, my AP world teacher gave our class a practice AP exam. I thought it was alright for the most part, but the entire class got dominated on the Compare/Contrast. It was on the aftermath of WWI and its effect on regions (e.g. Indian subcontinent, SE Asia). That might have been good and all, but we spent all of 1 or 2 days on WWI, mostly on its causes and almost nothing on the aftermath. So I hear scores of like 3/9 on it from classmates, and my score was not too great either. I knew little about what to write, so I at least tried to give what I knew (why the war started, the economic consequences, etc) and my teacher still grades overly harsh. This isn’t the first case of grading like this…I rarely get above 7 for essays, and no one else does either (even when I include an indepth and analytical thesis, include 3+ groupings, etc). Anyone else have this type of teacher?</p>
<p>Wow, that does sound harsh… My teacher never graded any of our essays (of which we did, like, two), and we pretty much all got 5’s on the AP test.</p>
<p>pshh ours is even worse</p>
<p>grade inflation is rampant at my school -_-…i don’t know if its just me but it is too easy to get A’s in APs at our school</p>
<p>wait till you get to college, then profs dont even care who you are…let alone what grade you get</p>
<p>What’s the point of grading essays easier than the AP’s will? The teacher is doing you a service by telling you exactly what the expectations are on that test. Curving the scores isn’t out of the question, I’m sure. You do know that a 50% is enough to get a 4 or 5 on any exam right?</p>