<p>I have taken EVERY AP class as well as Honors Class possible thus far in my life. Maybe my teachers are all special in the head, maybe myself and the other 99% of my class aren't "smart", but I need to share with you all something.</p>
<p>Teacher: How come you did so poor on the test?
Me: I thought I did everything right.
Teacher: You didn't answer the problems the way I wanted you to.
Me: How did you want me to answer them?
Teacher: <em>Explains</em>
Me: Well, you know theres more than one way to solve a problem. I thought doing that would make it easier for you to understand what I was doing.
Teacher: Well, you didn't do it the way I wanted it to be done, that's why your grade was low.
Friend: So you graded him off YOUR opinion? You know a teacher was fired recently because of that.</p>
<p>So... let me ask you all this. Are AP + Honors classes OPINIONATED in your school? For some ******g reason, ALL of these classes have been opinionated at the High School I attend. The more I show Admission Officers at Colleges these tapes, recordings, and tests, the more they pity me.</p>
<p>Just curious to see if this is really how AP classes are run. Just curious.</p>
<p>Nope. Most of our teachers are pretty open. Most of test are scantron and the ones that aren't are pretty open to opinion. We had a test on world religions in my AP World class and it was scantron. I ended up getting like a B on it but when I argued some of the questions with her (she made it herself and many of the questions had more than one answer) I ended up bringing my grade up to an A- and raised the grades of many people in the class. </p>
<p>However, my honors anthro teacher is just like yours. We have to be thinking the way SHE does or else we all fail, and we usually do because she's insane and doesn't think the way any sane person does.</p>
<p>my teachers are like that. My history teacher is pretty bad...she actually said, "benjamin franklin was a bad president, what have you heard about him?" and tried to argue with me about inflation and that states had their own currencies.</p>
<p>It is actually the opposite in my school. The regular teachers tend to be more opinionated because they basically think their students wouldn't know any better. My AP and Honors teachers are very open and even encourage different ways to go about solving problems.</p>
<p>Some teachers are just like that, you just have to work with them and do what they want. I had one honors teacher that took off points if your work wasnt "pretty"</p>
<p>Good. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to deal with <em>bad word</em> like this. I would prefer SCANTRON since multiple choice usually has 1 solid answer. All the OPEN ENDED questions I get are based purely off the Teacher's opinion.</p>
<p>A book my class read was about suicide. It was ONLY about suicide. It had statistics, letters of people who committed it, etc. My teacher believed the REAL plot of the story was that the tattoo SOME of the victim's had were ALLITERATIONS to the Bible. ... Medical professionals don't know why human blood vessels pop for no reason. THERE IS A REASON, and it's PEOPLE like this that cause them.</p>
<p>My only question is HOW do such opinionated people get their degrees?</p>
<p>Anyway, my AP Statistics teacher does that sometimes. He's a really good teacher, but not so good with tests (ultra-hard, generally take longer than the class period). He took a point off of one of my free response on a test because "the common man wouldn't understand it," when it didn't say they had to in the direction.</p>
<p>Hmm, only the teachers that teach non-honors classes are like that. Usually, the AP/Honors teachers are more understanding, and there is less arguing involved with them. Most of the AP/Honors teachers have been at the school for over ten years, so they are seasoned vets of the trade.
Sorry for your situation.</p>
<p>Most of the AP teachers at my school stick to the course material supplied with the book (usually ALL of the incredibly lengthy packets) and the only courses that are really subjective about grading are the English and Math ones.</p>
<p>Now the method of completing work is a completely different story. Too many nitpicky things for too many different teachers (ex. must be in a specific type of folder, must use only orange highlighter, must list answers a specific way, etc.). That's what really bothers me. But I definitely dig scantron-style tests where your grade isn't always left in the hands of the teacher. Essays with tough teachers are always grade-killers.</p>
<p>My pre-calc teacher encourages all ways of solving problems (exc. guess/check), but most of my other teachers are sticklers,</p>
<p>(e.g., English class, just got Beowulf test back. A question about the sword Hrunting was on there, asking what it was. I said "Awesome sword given to Beowulf by Unferth." My teacher gave me no credit because I called the sword awesome.)</p>