<p>While the curves are generous, AP test results still provide colleges with a standard to compare applicants that much works better than looking at applicants' grades. </p>
<p>E&M is one of the hardest AP's, so it makes sense that its curve would be high. Also, most selective colleges still accept 4's so I don't think you can say that someone who gets this score is bad at chemistry no matter what his/her grades are. There are still quite a few prep schools that have little if any grade inflation.</p>
<p>Grade inflation is hard enough to detect between, but what about in a school? Every class has "the favorite". There is a girl in my school, notorious for sucking up. She got a 98 in my English class. I got a 92..A HARD EARNED 92. The girl with the 98 was AP English Student of the Year. She got a 2 on the test, and I got a 4. Is it fair? NO. I did all my work. I actually computed all my grades, and found out I actually should have had a 98 in my last 9 weeks which would have given me a 94 for the year. I talked to the teacher, and she told me that she didnt think I was ready for college and I didnt deserve the "A"...funny.</p>
<p>In the next room over, I was using my hard work to get a 98 in my AP US History class. I studied on tests, where I consistently got A's with the class average in the D to F zone. My hard work also got me an AP Student of the Year award (given out to the best student in the course..approx 100 students). I got a 4 on the test, partially because I'm a bad standardized test taker.</p>
<p>I've heard that this year my school will have AP proctors to make sure that courses are difficult enough. I don't know if its true though and what impact it will have on my classes.
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<p>adidas...you cant get an A in a normal ap class and fail the ap test. and in my case you can just not do anythign in ap chem and pass it by reading a prep book. its probably the hardest ap class out there so dont tell me that what happened was completely fair.</p>
<p>i had the hardest teacher in the school while she had a very easy teacher at her school who let them retake tests when they failed and take home tests.</p>
<p>It really depends on several factors, not least of which is natural test-taking ability. When I took AP Euro, there were very few of us who managed to maintain A's all year, maybe 6 or 8. But (not to sound horribly vain) only 2, including myself, of the 40 some students got 5s.
The people who got A's EARNED them because that class was HARD and there was a lot of reading every night. The kids who got fives earned those, too, by working hard all year and being lucky enough to be good at tests.<br>
It is, admittedly, unfair to those students who worked their butts off all year to keep those A's, but just don't test well and got 4s, but such is life.</p>
<p>ok hey i get it you all are so smart because you got good AP test scores and im an idiot ok? all i know is that i dont define myself by 2 hour tests, but rather what ive done for the last three years</p>
<p>and another thing to remember: how can any of you justify "easy" or "hard" classes, its completely subjective and relative. Even a simple thing like not getting along with a teacher can suddenly mke an "easy" class "hard." so why dont we all just get along? no, its not fair sometimes ill admit, but is ANYTHING really?</p>
<p>Admittedly, getting along with the teacher can make the year rougher, affecting your grades and your ability to learn. But when it comes down to it, hating your teacher shouldn't cause an otherwise capable student to fail a test...if they worked hard and prepared for it.</p>
<p>public school doesn't mean easier. I got a 5 on AP Calc AB last year but I only had B+ in school. Only 1 or 2 people in a number of 130 students get As in AP Calc AB.</p>
<p>If you can get an A in the class, you should be able to score higher than a one on the AP Exam. Leaving the test blank could probably get you a one in all honesty. It is unfair to those that worked their butt off the entire year for that B- and pulled all nighters before the test to do well on it too.</p>
<p>Spend less time complaining about somebody else and more time getting better yourself. Unfortunately, AP test scores matter as it is a unit of measure that can be applied coast to coast. Rather than complain about somebody else at another HS or somebody else in class, clean up your own yard.</p>