Should i continue Taking ap classes at a ghetto undepreforming school?

mathyone
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:20:59 +0000

If your teachers aren’t good, look for other resources to supplement your learning. There are test prep books available for every AP class–are you using them? Look in the library or find used if you cannot afford to buy them. There are all kinds of online resources available. Form study groups with other students who are determined to succeed. Your situation is certainly not ideal but there are students who successfully prepare for AP exams without any class at all, so it’s a bit of a cop out to say you cannot succeed because your teacher isn’t the best. When you go to college you will have some good profs and some bad ones and you still need to learn the material, either way. Don’t give up.

Also, keep in mind that many schools don’t have a uniformly good student population. There is a school in our area that gets a 1 on those great schools lists, but their honor students do just fine. Those ratings are often more a measure of the average SES of the students rather than the quality of the teaching. The fact that your school even offers AP classes puts it well above average in offerings.

There is a style of essay writing for the AP history classes for which it does help to get informed feedback. But this year you are in calc and AP bio and there is no mystery there–you just need to learn how to solve the problems and master the factual material. Those are hard APs but they are also more amenable to independent learning than one of the essay based APs. Good luck.