AP Score Mistake

Hello, I took AP Research last year, and I just got my score back. After working all year, formulating a 4,998 word essay exactly based on the provided rubric, and turning it in to college board, I got my score back as a 2. I have been speaking to my teacher, and he said I received 5’s on my presentation and OD from him, which is 25% of the grade. This means that I received a 1 on my paper. Is there anyway I can reach out to college board about this? I’m worried, because my paper was on a controversial topic, with a very controversial solution, and bias is a possibility in the grading.

The grading structure for AP Research is here:

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap/pdf/ap17-sg-research-academic-paper.pdf

And according to this, your teacher graded the paper & CB just validates it:

https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-admissions-playbook/articles/2018-02-05/high-schoolers-understand-ap-research-assessments

Have you asked your teacher about his opinion of your paper?

Yes, he said he thought my paper was a sure thing.

He said it was the best paper in the class, and he said I should have passed

Sadly, the AP readers felt differently and the score is final - there is no appeal.

https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/takingtheexam/exam-policies/ap-capstone-policies

My son did this two-year AP program 2 years ago (think it was one of the first years but the first for his school) because he was going into engineering and his poorest subject was Writing. He wanted to challenge himself to become a better writer.

All I can say is that he became a really great writer. He felt the first year michigan writing course was very easy and he formed a tech group and was in an intensive on research and business principles this summer and they reviewed like everything he learned from that AP class.

Plus I don’t remember but I don’t think any university gives you credit from the class due to a high AP score unless things have changed.

So the experience and knowledge from the class is invaluable.

Relatively few do, but there are some, although more common for public universities than for private ones.

Yes very few do which is a shame since these kids work very hard in the class. At his college they don’t.

That sounds so sad. What was your topic?