<p>@Teyrkis </p>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p>The tests for my AP World History tests are very hard (just like the AP test) so they are curved (just like the AP test).
My AP Chemistry teacher sometimes curves the test after realizing some of the questions were unfair or something.
Although not AP, my Acc. Pre-Calc class’s test are curved a lot more than they need to be. That’s why I have a 102% in that class.</p>
<p>Ap world the tests are curved (so far I haven’t really needed it which I hope to continue) and in APHG the tests aren’t curved even when they are super hard and it has nothing to do with what my teacher ever taught at all</p>
<p>Luckily for APHG I found the test bank online where my teacher gets all his tests YESSsss</p>
<p>Curved: AP Biology, AP Psychology, AP United States History, & AP World History.
Not Curved: AP Spanish Language</p>
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<p>Especially in college, tests are meant to be very challenging, asking for very advanced knowledge that calls for a deep understanding of the material learned. It would simply be unfair if a teacher gives a test where everybody fails or does poorly. </p>
<p>@Ctesiphon </p>
<p>Oh, I’m sorry, I had no idea we were talking about college and not high school. </p>
<p>My bad.</p>
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<p>You don’t need to apologize, no worries! AP classes mimic college courses. AP states that their courses “cover the breadth of information, skills, and assignments found in the corresponding college course.” As it follows, they should be graded in a similar manner. I’m not more so against your opinion that they shouldn’t be curved, but more that you seem to dislike how people “cry” when they don’t have curves on their tests. That’s a blanket statement that can’t really apply to a larger level; class rigor varies from school to school, as well as the difficulty of the tests. One teacher may find it necessary to implement a curve because the average grade is low…while others may not. However, it would be unfair if a class of intelligent students. who studied and understand the curriculum on what is being tested, be given a tricky, difficult exam that ends up with a failing or near-failing average. It is not because the students did not study and prepare themselves for the test. It is because the test was unusually difficult and must be compensated for by making it more representative of the students’ knowledge, ie. with a curve.</p>
<p>Is my AP teacher the only one to do this but he does not curve the first test but will curve the retake since its harder… </p>
<p>@Ctesiphon </p>
<p>AP classes mimic college classes.</p>
<p>Who said we’re actually in college? </p>
<p>Whatever. I can understand curving in college, not in high school. </p>
<p>@Kawaiiii maybe you should read more than the firs two sentences of Ctesiphon’s reply</p>
<p>And why cant they be applied in high school?
AP classes emulate college classes so their grading shouldnt be connnsiderably different.</p>
<p>There are curves there for a reason. They adjust for the rigor of a test. Even in high school it wouldnt be fair if an entire class did sub-par whether the teacher did not teach the material well enough, or the test was unusually hard.
Its more likely that there was an issue with the test than all the students not studying and just doing bad. Curves account for this. They make a students grade based on relative performance rather than a unfitting preset standard.</p>
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<p>Nobody said we are actually in college, and nowhere in my post do I imply we are in college.</p>
<p>I do not see the reasoning behind making high school AP classes more difficult then college level classes by instituting curves in the latter but not in the former.</p>
<p>If AP classes mimic college classes, covering the same material at a very rigorous pace, then they should be graded the same way. As AP classes will also help prepare oneself for college-level courses, it would be ideal to run them and treat them similarly.</p>
<p>I understand your opinion, but you are not explaining to me exactly why you don’t think high school AP class tests should be curved.</p>
<p>My school weighs AP classes more (+5 points per class) but the only class in which my test grades are curved is AP Chemistry. My teacher makes the tests super hard in order to “mock the defeat we will feel after taking the AP.” Most of the time the curve doesn’t effect me very much, but sometimes the tests are absolutely impossible! (And they are also double-period tests in a mock-AP format in regards to handing the MC in before getting the SAs.)</p>
<p>We get seven points of weight into our GPA’s for final grades (but only for GPA calculations, they are not literally added to the final grade on report cards).</p>
<p>In terms of curving tests, it depends on the class. In AP US History II and AP Euro, all tests are 50 questions and for the first 10 you get wrong, it’s only 1 point off. For subsequent questions wrong after 10, it is 2 points off (built-in 10 point curve if you get more than 10 wrong). </p>
<p>AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP Gov, and AP US History I have test-by-test curves depending on class performance.</p>
<p>AP Spanish, AP Italian, AP Calc, and AP Stats have no curves whatsoever. </p>
<p>As for other Ap’s my school offers, I am not entirely sure. </p>
<p>UGH nope. My AP compsci class had a final with 20% of our grade… the final was a mock exam… it was marked out of 100% :’( </p>
<p>In physics we usually get a square root plus 10 test curve 
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<p>However, last year he used to give square root + 30 or 40 
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<p>Now we don’t get any curve and like half the class fail.</p>
<p>Umm I can only speak for the ones I have taken.</p>
<p>AP Euro was curved
AP US is curved a little
AP Chem isn’t curved but you can always get some points back if you bomb it. (Not a ton but some if you do work)
AP English Comp is not curved.</p>
<p>AP Calculus (AB) is kind of not really curved. The actual tests given in the class contain only previous AP Test material (Meaning either MC or FRQ) which he will add a few points on but he also gives quizzes that go into the same category that just have questions he makes up and they are usually a lot easier and he just puts in the score as it is. They usually are out of around 20 points. The Chapter Tests in his class are always out of 42 (Except for the limits test) because he structures it the same. There are always 8 MC questions and 2 FRQ’s that are released from previous AP Tests. the MC questions are worth 3 each (they are 24 combined), the FRQ’s are worth 9 each. (They are 18 combined)</p>
<p>You can get up to 2 bonus points on the FRQ’s depending on how you do. If you get a 9/9 on an FRQ you get +2 bonus. If you get a 4-8 out of 9 you get +1 bonus. If you get less than 3 then you get nothing. So every test there are 4 bonus points up for grabs.</p>
<p>Example would be on the Chapter 2 test that introduced differentiation and related rates I got 7/8 MC Questions right (21/24) a 6/9 on a related rates FRQ and a 9/9 on a derivative FRQ involving natural numbers. My raw score was 36/42 but I got +2 for my 9/9 and +1 for my 6/9 which made my score a 39/42.</p>
<p>On Chapter 3 Test,I got 8/8 MC Correct, a 5/9 on an optimization FRQ and a 9/9 on a finding mins, maxes, poi, and using the first and second derivative test FRQ. My Raw score was a 38/42 but I got 41/42 after that.</p>
<p>Took awhile to explain, but I’m not sure if that counts as curving or not.</p>
<p>My APUSH will omit questions if the vast majority of us get them wrong, that curves our grades a few points each test.</p>
<p>Based on the classes I have taken thus far:
AP biology: every test was curved (usually based on the highest test score)
AP Euro: test were curved a lot they were usually out of 34 and he’d curve them out of 20-24
AP physics: only curves final
AP calculus AB: no curve
AP Lang: no curve (sometimes she’ll give us freebies on tests though)
AP USH: he curves our essay & final based on the average in the class
AP CompSci: curves every test & final based on highest score </p>
<p>AP physics 1: Massive curve. a 36% become like a ~65. Yet I am still struggling. sad</p>
<p>My AP Bio teacher is curving our finals for the first time this semester, which is a godsend because two people actually received extra credit (61/60) on it. Other then this one instance, I haven’t had a curved test since AP World last year.</p>