<p>My AP Bio and AP Econ teachers have a policy where if you get a 4 or 5 on the AP exam, they'll change your semester grade to an A.</p>
<p>So wait, you can just sleep in the class every day and not turn in any assignments and still get an A as long as you do well on the AP test?</p>
<p>@halcyonheather:</p>
<p>Well, he did learn the material, which was the objective of the course, right?</p>
<p>Yes, but if you could learn the material without doing the work you could just study the test on your own. </p>
<p>But you can probably do well on the AP Bio test if you cram for a few days. Doing well in a (hopefully non-inflated) class over a long period of time is different and, to me, indicates a higher level of understanding.</p>
<p>If you don’t try in the class (if you get an F), they refuse to change your grade.
Last year there was a guy who turned in no assignments at all and didn’t even take the tests. He got a 4 but the teacher refused to change his grade.</p>
<p>So your teachers never do this? AP test doesn’t even count as extra credit or anything?</p>
<p>Some of my teachers do this. They don’t really have a policy of it, but they’ll do it for you if you score well. It’s kind of unfair though because people I know from past classes said the teacher changed some people’s grades who begged or who they just generally liked and students they knew tried hard but maybe just didn’t do we’ll on class tests or projects. Pretty unfair since its all subjective and it causes a lot of sucking up.</p>
<p>“So wait, you can just sleep in the class every day and not turn in any assignments and still get an A as long as you do well on the test?”</p>
<p>This is the brilliant thing about the British education system. I hardly work at all, but I’ll probably end up with straight As at the end of the year :)</p>
<p>since AP score won’t be known until later. my son’s AP chem teacher used a practice test as their final. he had one less final to take at the end of the year.</p>
<p>no, they didn’t sleep thru the rest of the school year, they still had projects to do. But the projects were extra credits. it is only beneficial to non A students. they could raise their grades to an A in the class if they didn’t score 4/5 on the AP practice test.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of this, mainly because it’d be a lot of work for the teachers. In my area, schools get out around early June, and AP results don’t come out until late June/early July, right? At any rate, they come after our semester grades are due for the year.</p>
<p>We did have a policy that if you had a B average or higher in the class, a limited number of absences, and took the AP test that you were exempt from the final.</p>
<p>My teachers don’t do this.</p>
<p>You turn in all your assignments and take the quizzes. If you score good on the AP exam, you are not given extra credit. The only thing my school does is that they count B’s in AP as an A.</p>
<p>If you get like a C or a B and a 4 or 5 on AP in my Chem class, my teacher bumps you to a B or an A.</p>
<p>None of my teachers have every done this. In my school usually about 3 or 4 kids get a score of 4 or 5.</p>
<p>Yes, for several APs, but I’ve never needed it.</p>
<p>My teachers don’t do this. I got a 75 in AP Stat (class was extremely difficult and beyond the scope of the AP) and ended up with an easy 5 on the exam.</p>