<p>My APUSH class is great but don't you guys hate it when an AP class only grades on 3 or 4 assessments a term and weigh them so much that if you screw one or two assessments up UR screwed. lol. Reply if u feel me!!</p>
<p>yah, my two grades in APUSH for this semester are one paper and participation.</p>
<p>My teacher gives multiple choice tests EVERY week, but they're only around 15-25 points each, so if you miss only 4 or 5 questions your grade goes down.</p>
<p>APUSH was my only bad grade this semester...which was disappointing.</p>
<p>yea, at the beginning of the term, i had two one page papers with a 350 owrd limit. my teacher graded them harder thean college level (he taught history at drew U b4 teachin us) and so on my first i got an A-. I was souped. on the second one, however, he gave me a C- for grammatical errors. GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!!!!!!</p>
<p>it's worse when it's based off a subjective assessment of your teacher liking you.</p>
<p>My teacher actually tells us her grades aren't based off "averages" or "numbers"...okay?</p>
<p>Basically, if you got 100's on all her essays (again subjective-she thinks the Civil War was between Germany and America....and that Benjamin Franklin was a president, and grades accordingly...she also tells us not to use "big words" with more than 2 syllables...), but she hates you at the end of the term, you'll get an 89 to keep you from AP next year.</p>
<p>and vice versa.</p>
<p>Essays in APUSH suck because they're so formulaic. I get A's and A-'s in AP Literature essays, but I get C's and C-'s on APUSH essays because I get "zero points for not adding Transition #3" or "In intro paragraph, the main points are not in separate sentences."</p>
<p>gee, i thought i had it bad. my apush teacher likes me so it's all good. his class is great, but i just have to keep kickin my butt and trying harder and harder until i get to a point where i know how to study for AP history classes to get good grades.</p>
<p>p.s. i'm not failing. just not doin as well as i'd like seeing as i work really hard.</p>