<p>At my school, of about 350 in a class, there are about 6 English III teachers. Each of the teachers differs greatly in difficulty, even though they are on the same syllabus. The average of one teacher's class is around 75%. I was lucky and got the ridiculously easy teacher whose class average is 97% and I have a 109% as of the fifth week in school. The kids in school are really getting upset that even though they all have "English III" on their Junior course list, that the classes are not at the same level of difficulty. Does anyone have this type of problem in their school?</p>
<p>yea, this is very true in all schools. My honors english teacher lastyear was so easy, I slept during her class to catch up on my sleep everyday and came out with a 99% FA, while other ppl in the other honors english class got a project everyday and got screwed badly. This year my physics teacheri sa completle hard*** while th other physics teacher for the same level gives out tons of extra credit so everyone can get free 100's. </p>
<p>Its very prevelant, but its a sad truth of high school. A 100 in the same class from 1 student could be less deserved than a 80 in the same level/type class from another student.</p>
<p>It mostly is english imo because th eteacher grades different on essays and makes the tests either easy or hard, etc. However, the teacher is hard depending on what their grading system is like, how he or she grades, if he or she accepts late work, etc.</p>
<p>My school is small enough that one teacher has all the students in a given level for a particular course.</p>
<p>Although last year, honors English ended up being easier than level 1 English.</p>
<p>at my school, the english iv honors teacher is notoriously difficult while the ap english teacher is in his first year and everyone finds him very easy</p>
<p>I have 5 APs and literally 3 of them barely assign any homework. My english class covers advanced material but the assignments take at most 30 minutes a day.. and my AP Econ class only requires 3-4 hours of studying a week. For AP Chem, homework is optional and there's always a big curve on the tests. I would say that Calc is very easy as well, but that's all about mathematical aptitude.</p>
<p>I would say you're a lucky &*^#@ if you get the best of both worlds; teachers who are easy, but great at teaching.</p>
<p>guess what we did in AP Chemistry yesterday.....</p>
<p>played bingo. o_O </p>
<p>yet they wonder why only one person in the history of the school has ever passed the exam.......idiots....</p>
<p>/rant</p>
<p>I get teachers who are the most hard*** ever, and suck at teaching. I remember last year in my Honors Chemistry class we were preparing for the SAT II, and I just either slept or ignored the teacher's bull-crapping completely, and sat there studying it by myself while she was trying (miserably) to teach the stuff. </p>
<p>I came out with the highest score in the class, a 780. Everyone else got 750's or below, with teh majority in the 600s</p>
<p>yeah, last year in hon. biology our class watched youtube regularly on the projector while the regular bio class had ridiculously difficult homework assignments...i admit it isn't fair, but i'm not complaining.</p>
<p>yes, this is very much true. Especially when the teachers decide to be unique and do their "own thing" which doesn't really follow the curriculum.</p>
<p>This is actually really common. A lot of the courses at my school are this way, but no one really complains, because we just feel that if we get harder teachers we have to work a little harder and if we get easier teachers it's just a GPA boost.</p>
<p>How does this affect admissions though?</p>
<p>For example, I know two teachers who teach the same English course. They use common tests and assignments, but when it comes down to marking them, a wrong answer in the hard class converts to a right answer in the other one. In the harder class, there is only one correct answer, while the other class can have a variety of answers. We learn the same material, but there is always a difference in the marks.</p>
<p>How do admission officers tell? I am in the harder class, and I'm just afraid that it will drop my GPA. I had really high mark in English before.</p>
<p>English teachers, Math teachers, whatever the subject, even if it's the same course, the level of difficulty can vary wildly, especially if there isn't a standard curriculum.</p>
<p>SAT scores, scores from sophmore/junior/senior year (year where you didn't have the ridiculously easy/hard teacher), class rank, etc. balance this out to a degree, but it's still tough.</p>
<p>This is why I try to take SAT II's/APs for subjects. Also, though people say Regents don't count, they also show aptitude.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely. For example, two of the "rigorous courses" I'm taking have completely different difficulty levels. I've had about ten AP Statistics homework problems aver the last week, but I should be doing my ten hours of APUSH homework right now.</p>