<p>Lets say </p>
<p>1st sem: B
2nd sem: A</p>
<p>ap exam: 5</p>
<p>I heard some teachers at some schools would change your B's to A's if you get a 5 on the exam. Do any of your schools do this, should i bother asking my teacher about it?</p>
<p>This depends on the school, but I doubt that teachers would normally do it, since you do not receive your test scores until after all the grades have been finalized. I remember my Calculus BC teacher did give us an A for a 5, but that was based on a practice AP exam we took three weeks before the final. That being said, each school is different; at my school, anyone who takes the AP exam for a class is also exempted from the final as well, for instance. You should definitely ask the relevant school officials if you want a more exact answer.</p>
<p>In my school they actually wait til exam results come out, then give you class grades accordingly lol :P</p>
<p>S’s AP chem teacher said anyone who got a 5 would automatically get an A during the second semester, irrespective of their grades during that semester. But I’ve not heard about going back to a previous semester to change a grade.</p>
<p>Some classes at my school did this -__-</p>
<p>The teacher received the results over the summer and went back and changed the grades on transcripts to an A for anyone who passed.</p>
<p>It sucks because people who got B’s and lower in it were changed to A’s and it bumped down my rank!</p>
<p>Nope, it’s a huge pain to change grades after they’re official in early June (it requires all sorts of paperwork). Plus, the class isn’t necessarily just exam prep–the best teachers will go above and beyond teaching to the test.</p>
<p>Some teachers at my school change both semesters, if you get a 5, to an A. It’s not much of a hassle at my school and plenty of kids pull it off.</p>
<p>Some do and some don’t at my school. The English APs don’t and that’s what I’m worst at D:</p>
<p>That’s pretty unfair but I’ve heard of it being done at a nearby school that does AP.</p>
<p>We do IB and our school grade is independent of our IB grade… 7/B in Spanish SL</p>
<p>No. It’s a little ridiculous to hinge a grade on one test anyway.</p>
<p>haha ^^ well ironically because its the final that brought me down to a B, so i mean changing the 1st semester grade is fairly reasonable</p>
<p>1st sem: 92 > 89% on the final
2nd sem A
Ap Exam: 5</p>
<p>Well i brought this up because some of my friends were able to talk to their teachers to get their grades changed.</p>
<p>And at my school, all you need to change your grade is a slip that you fill out in 5min that you get signed by the teacher.</p>
<p>Nope. My teachers are pretty strict about it.</p>
<p>Seems pretty dishonest to me, and disheartening to hear that some schools/teachers do it. If I were a college admissions officer and I heard about this practice, I’d make a note of any school where it’s occurring, and discount the GPA and class rank of any students potentially benefiting from it accordingly. It’s just fraudulent. Your grade in the class should be based on what you did in the class, not on what you did on some external exam.</p>
<p>I’ve had a couple of teachers say that they do that. I don’t think it comes up often, though, because the people who get 5’s on exams tend to be the kind of people who get A’s.</p>
<p>At mine and I assume tons of other schools, it’s based on individual teachers. Discounting the GPAs of all the graduating kids in a school just because some teachers like to bump grades up a level for a 5 is far more disheartening and dishonest. It’s also the reason that will never, ever happen; how are admission officers supposed to tell which students have had which teachers, or which teachers decided to bump up grades, and in which individual years (assuming no bump some years, bump on others)? It’s impossible and the intricacies are too impossible; how do you determine how much the discount will be? How will you know how much the “bump” was worth? Some teachers might give automatic As while others will give things like a 10% boost.</p>
<p>Further, I believe this is a benign thing. If you want to rave about things that need to be fixed, there is a long, long list that I, along with numerous other high schoolers, have in mind. And this topic is not on that list; getting a 5 in an AP test demonstrates at least a decent level of aptitude. If it doesn’t deserve an automatic A (and no teacher I’ve ever had has ever guaranteed an automatic A from getting a 5; that is, perhaps, excessive), at least it deserves a possible boost. Perhaps the kid slacked off earlier and studied hard later, and the boost helps show that in their grade. A teacher I have weighs test scores taken later in a semester stronger, for the exact same effect. You gonna tell her that such practices are “disheartening and dishonest”? Please.</p>
<p>yes, but only 2nd semester grades</p>
<p>For AP World 5=A one semester
AP Chemistry=A (old teacher)
AP Physics B=A both semesters
AP French=A (both semesters)</p>
<p>Only for some classes…
If you get a 5 on the AP test, the teacher will go back and raise your grade by 10% (unless you have an A, then nothing will happen). However doing poorly on the AP test will not affect your grade. </p>
<p>My chem teacher is going to change both semesters to an a if you get a 3 or higher. </p>
<p>That is ENTIRELY unethical. </p>