<p>For AP Human in 9th grade, the teacher would change both your semester grades to an A if you got a 5.
For AP World in 10th grade, the teacher would change both your semester grades to an A if you got a 5; one semester grade to an A if you got a 4; and one semester one letter grade up if you got a 3.
For AP USH and AP Spanish Lang in 11th grade, the teachers would do the same thing as the AP World teacher.</p>
<p>The AP Calc, AP English, and AP science teachers don't do this at my school.</p>
<p>How about you guys? Do AP teachers at your school exercise this grade change policy? If so, do you enjoy the leeway -- and if not, why? If not, do you wish you had this or do you not, and why?</p>
<p>That sounds ridiculous. First of all, who doesn’t get straight As anyway? Secondly, why would you ever reward someone for getting some garbage score like a 3 or 4 on an AP test?</p>
<p>No, my teachers don’t, but it would be so much better if they did. For example, I took AP Spanish Lang, and the teacher graded hard, so I ended up with a B+ in the class, but a 5 on the exam. On the other hand, the students who had a different Spanish teacher at my school got A’s in the class even if their AP score was a 3 (this was so annoying…).</p>
<p>But seriously, I don’t think it’s even possible for my teachers to change our semester averages in the summer after finding out our AP scores. It would be too late to make grade changes in my school.</p>
<p>My chemistry teacher promised to change our grades to an A if we passed at all. But that might just have been because only one person passed the test the year before. Most of the people who passed, though, already had A’s.</p>
<p>^^I’m pretty sure your grades aren’t set in stone. Your school probably has grade change forms if, say, a teacher discovers that he/she incorrectly graded a student’s assignments. At least, that’s how it is here. The grade change slips are pink, and the teacher turns them in to some lady in the office in charge of transcript alterations.</p>
<p>I would LOVE that, I got a Bs in APUSH and AP Language and 5s on the exams, mostly just because I know a lot about history and me good speak English. I would’ve loved As for those classes.</p>
<p>I’m getting a C in AP Lit but I’m owning on the practice exams. Getting an A for doing next to nothing, that’d be the best.</p>
<p>Hold up ain’t the AP test in like may and school over in 2 weeks? No way THEY can find out your scores unless you find them on their vacations and say Mr./Mrs. ____ I got a __ on my AP test.</p>
<p>Yeah, there probably is a way to change grades at my school…I’ve just never been through the process. I should start hinting to my teachers that this would be a good idea. Not that it really matters now that I’m a senior.</p>
<p>@Descuff: I’m pretty sure that teachers receive all of their students’ AP scores as well.</p>
<p>I don’t think teachers at our school are allowed to change grades after the semester unless there’s some kind of mistake with the grading or an otherwise extreme situation, so it wouldn’t be possible for them to do it. I think I’d actually like that, though.</p>
<p>“That sounds ridiculous. First of all, who doesn’t get straight As anyway?”</p>
<p>Actually a lot of people. In fact, more people do not get straight As than do. I admit it makes me a horrible person, but part of me hopes you fail a class and remember your little pretentious comment. Sorry.</p>
<p>edit: God, I just looked at some of your other comments oxycontin, and I came to the conclusion that you think you really are educated. If you are educated the you would know how to act. You may have the mental age of a 40 year old, but you definitely have the emotional capacity of a 5 year old. </p>
<p>Sorry OP, this has nothing to do with your post…</p>
<p>Yeah, I know…but I’m still going to take AP/IB exams at the end of the year for possible credit. I thought senior year was supposed to be easy…the IB program ruins all of my fun. I hope it was worth it. </p>
<p>Lol…yes, in the past, I have actually received a <em>gasp</em> B in a class. But I try not to :)</p>
<p>The teachers get an AP score report of the scores of every student in the vacation. They have the grade change slips completed and submitted in September of the following school year, of course. Derderder.</p>
<p>Wah, wah, wah. Internet poster got your goat?</p>
<p>A good many people don’t get straight A’s, that’s true. However, Oxycontin is right about the AP score thing. Why would you reward a student for getting a 3? That’s stupid. I can understand bumping a grade for a 5, maybe, but not a 4. </p>
<p>As for our school, some teachers guarantee a certain grade (generally a B) on the final exam in the class (which is AP test prep anyway) for passing the AP exam. </p>
<p>@Descuff</p>
<p>Oh my God. I do hope that’s all a joke, right? RIGHT?</p>