ap scores..

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<p>do your teachers see your ap scores? or is it strictly between you and the collegeboard?</p>

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<p>yes, your school gets the scores.</p>

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<p>yup, the school gets a print out a couple of days after you get your scores by mail.</p>

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<p>but does the ap teacher himself get to see my score... i didn't do as well as i hoped to do on my exam, but i did great in his class... its something i don't want him to see =&lt;/p>

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<p>Your teacher will see the scores when they arrive at the school.</p>

<p>You must be pretty good. The test has not been graded, equated, or scaled yet, and you know how you did??</p>

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<p>i skipped alot of questions. i had no clue how to do some of the stuff on the free response =\ i think i did really bad.</p>

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<p>Most teachers use the information to find out how well they're preparing students. If a teacher has high grades and low scores across the board, then this tells the teacher that their expectations don't match that of the College Board. Conversely, if a teacher has high grades and only one low score, then the teacher probably thinks everything is OK.</p>

<p>Most teachers get that stuff happens to kids sometimes. Sometimes, real life decides to interfere right before the exam, and some folks freeze up when it comes to the exam.</p>

<p>While teachers may have certain "expectations" of you, that doesn't mean that every one is going to meet those expectations. In fact, it would be surprising if everybody always did.</p>

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<p>Is this the first time you've taken AP exams? You're not expected to get anywhere near 100% for an "A" aka a 5. I think you may be surprised at what you end up with, given the generosity of AP curves.
Admittedly, plenty of people end up doing worse than they expected. But if you're a strong student in the subject who is used to knowing basically everything on your in class tests, then while not knowing everything on the AP might feel bad to you, it's probably not as bad as you think.
And as MathProf said, your teacher needs to see this, because if you do badly, and it's not just a fluke (as in, the other strong students do badly, too), then he needs to know this so he can change his teching accordingly. That's not to say he's a bad teacher, but perhaps not teaching to the particular things AP likes to test.</p>