<p>Why bring back this thread to live? It is non-sense. For senior students, the final transcripts are done before the AP scores are out. It is totally not fair to change the grade of some students but not the others.</p>
<p>D got a C in AP Bio and a 5 on the exam. </p>
<p>Harsh. No grade change. Life went on. </p>
<p>S got B (iirc) on AP US; 5 on the exam and SAT II of 780. No change in grade but got to walk by teacher with his head held high. :)>- </p>
<p>What!? So you’re telling me that someone could self-study an AP, get a 5, and then get the college credit whereas someone else could do the same thing, except also sign up for class (doing none of the work though) and get high school AND college credit? That’s plain wrong.</p>
<p>yea I agree with the poster above me
also at my school, taking an ap exam exempts you from the final</p>
<p>At my school we are also exempted from taking finals in AP classes if we take the AP test in that class. Also at my school, if you receive a 5 on an AP test, your final grade in that class gets changed to an A. I know some people’s comments on here are against it, but I actually think it’s a good thing. Getting a 5 on an AP test in an incredible accomplishment so I think it should be fitting for someone’s final class grade should correspond with their AP test score.</p>
<p>At my school, some teachers (calc and US history specifically) will bump up to an A for getting a 3. </p>
<p>Um no…the scores come out in summer.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why there would be a difference between earning a 5 and receiving college credit as a result of self-studying as opposed to taking an AP high school class and getting a 5? Not every high school offers AP courses, and not every AP course that is offered is truly collegiate level. The intent behind the test is for colleges to determine if the student knows the material enough to place out of the course.</p>
<p>Today I learned that my AP Physics B teacher is giving everyone who earned a 3 or better on the exam an A in the class… Kind of feel like I wasted a lot of effort maintaining an A in his class now.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t do this in general, but they require everyone to take a regular government class and they gave me high school credit for it after I got a 3 on the AP US Government test.
If getting a 5 means getting an A in the class, I feel like getting a 4 should mean getting a B and so on, and I don’t like that idea. If someone gets an A in an AP class and a score lower than 5, that probably means their AP class was deficient somehow. They shouldn’t be penalized for something that wasn’t their fault.</p>
<p>My AP Human Geography teacher did it. I mean, it didn’t apply to me since I got a 3, and she retired, but there were students that had their grades raised because of it.</p>
<p>We get our report cards weeks before we get our AP scores, so no.
We are exempt from the final, though. It just means one grade less averaged into our final marks, though if we feel like it’s a disadvantage we can take it if we want to. </p>
<p>No, grades are due by the end of May.</p>