I’m looking for anyone’s input on this. I have had straight A’s in every class since the sixth grade (will be a senior this school year) and have never struggled with anything school related. 1400 on my PSAT, a 28 on my ACT freshman year then 32 my second try, and have only gotten a 4 once on a high school standardized tests, everything else is 5s.
This was my first AP test ever, along with the AB Calculus exam I would be taking the next day. It being my first time, as well as the challenges that came with distanced learning and the new test format, made me slightly less confident than I was at the beginning of the year. But I was never concerned about my performance on the AP Gov test, and never in my entire life, even after the test, would I had believed that I would get a 1 on the AP Gov test.
For comparison, AB Calculus became quite a struggle for my entire class once our school had closed. We weren’t able to effectively learn a chapter our teacher told us would not be on the test. Little did we know that, in his words after we took the test, nearly half of the questions we received, so it’s easy to say that everyone thought they would fail, and especially felt that way after the test. I received a 2 on that test. How do I manage to score higher on the test I basically crapped out than the test I was certain I would get a 5 on and was prepared for?
It seems wrong to me. I know that it is 100 percent possible that I could’ve just bombed, but even the teachers I’ve told about it believe a mistake was made. I have horrible internet and distinctly remember the Gov test taking quite a long time to turn in, nearly two minutes, while the Calculus test submitted almost instantly. The fact I got a 1 and not even a 2 just makes me believe that an error occurred when submitting my answer, and that I received 0 credit for my work.
Your teacher has access to your response and the scoring rubric. If he/she has reviewed your exam and believes the score is incorrect, he/she can request that it be veriified.
fwiw, any “teachers” other than the one that taught your class and read your response has zero basis for this belief. And I’d be surprised if even your teacher has received the responses yet.
I don’t see how the duration of uploading your response has anything to do with your score.
Ask for a look at your school profile and for AP test results over all for your school. What are the scores students at your school are getting on AP tests? Are most of the students taking AP courses taking the tests? What subjects are getting what scores?
I did see that the teacher of the class could view the responses and I did email him the day I received my score, but he is yet to respond.
As far as what other teachers think, no they have not seen the response, but they are my teachers and they do know my potential to succeed in a test like this, especially those that have taught me the lower social studies classes before AP Government. I haven’t heard from my teacher, but I would expect this to shock him as well since he has always told me I do great work in his class.
You are more than likely correct about the time to submit not being the culprit, it was more of a shot in the dark at what maybe could have happened. However, it would not be the first time I have had the same issue submitting something.
I will admit I could’ve just actually failed, but I felt certain in my answer on the first question and had confidence in my second answer as well. I would be even more surprised if I missed the mark by that much.
I’ll try and find the AP test results but I can already tell you that no one struggles on the AP Gov test. Unlike the AP Calc test I mentioned in my post, a 2 is an admirable score when compared to how well past students at my school have performed on it, most kids just getting shy of a 3, one person passing, and the rest getting 1s. The sheer difference in difficulty and results of the two tests I took is the main root of my disbelief in all of this. And yes, practically everyone who takes AP courses at my school takes the test.