<p>A week before the AP test for each subject, we miss half of school to take a mock ap exam, which counts as our final for the year. (with curve of course) I was explaining the to a friend and she had no idea what I was talking about. Just curious, has anyone heard of this or is my school weird?</p>
<p>My kids’ school doesn’t do this. I’d be ticked if they did. They squander enough instructional time as it is.</p>
<p>^^^ </p>
<p>My teacher offered a mock AP exam for our class mid year. It was simply to see where we were at. He did it out of his pocket/time. He bought us pizza afterward lol. </p>
<p>Shame we used a Princeton review test though.</p>
<p>How was i supposed to know that “a modest proposal” was ironic without context?</p>
<p>haha pizza would have made it way better. so do you have to take a separate final in june? seems like it would be annoying to have to wait a month when your pretty much done with the class in may.</p>
<p>I have an AP English teacher who made an AP Lang MC Test our final exam which we had today. She put in no curve (A = 48+/53) and we weren’t allowed to mark in our books, which totally threw me off. The only markings could be filling in bubbles. Her explanation was “if i make this test harder to do well on then students will be more prepared for the exam.”</p>
<p>She is such a damn idiot ROFL.</p>
<p>At my school it is up to each teacher. Most make a final that fits into two days (so in two parts) before the AP test week. Then there is no final in June! They also offer mock tests on a weekend or after school that don’t actually count for a grade (I’m excited as I got a 5 on my mock-CalcBC!). After these finals we go back and do topics that the teacher finds interesting but were not in the curriculum. There are enough projects that you can partially recover a bad final grade. Also, if your actual AP test score is higher than your class grade the school goes back and bumps your class grade (using some averaging formula). </p>
<p>@Sikorsky, how is this wasting time? Shouldn’t the teachers try to prepare students for the test, especially leading up go-time?</p>
<p>At my old school, it was up to the teacher. My bio teacher excused us from the final if we took the AP test. My Calc teacher didn’t give a final exam at all, even if you weren’t taking the test (I didn’t). My environmental science teacher just had us do a small project in place of a final.</p>
<p>Currently in the middle of finals/review for all my AP classes, with two day finals for both Psych and Chem. For Psych, it’s a basic AP MC + FRQ with slightly reduced times due to our normal class allocated time, so it’ll encourage us to work faster.</p>
<p>We won’t have a final in our class. </p>
<p>And to be honest if we have 4-5 people to pass the exam it will be a miracle. </p>
<p>The highest MC score we had was 35? that was mine… lol</p>
<p>35 (mine)
then 25
23
22</p>
<p>14… lmao</p>
<p>Only my chemistry teacher did this. We took a full AP exam for our midterm and final grades.</p>
<p>All of my AP teachers had mock exams, but only 2 of them counted as a final though.</p>
<p>All of our tests are typically made up of previous ap questions and are done in a mock ap test environment (for most classes, at least). However some teachers don’t put in the ap curve…which really REALLY sucks lol. But most curve it. The best is our physics curve. 5=100+ 4=90+ etc etc. So his class is like impossible to fail lol</p>