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It wasn't grade inflation. THis year, my teacher had 200 students and it was way too much for him to handle. We learned DBQs like 2 weeks before the AP exam.</p>
<p>Also, the year and 2 years before my class, the teacher had about 50 5s out of a classs of about 110 students."
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<p>In my AP US History class we covered DBQs ONCE the entire year and that was it. Our class didn't even get through all the material we had to spend the last class before the exam speeding through the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s. </p>
<p>A lot of AP classes are the same way and went through the same thing as you. </p>
<p>Also what does having 200 students have to do with anything? were they all in one massive class or were they all in small groups of 20 like in a normal high school? i don't see having a few extra groups of kids would affect anything unless the test taking ability of the additional kids dropped...</p>