<p>Is that even if someone decided not to try in class and failed it, but somehow got a 5 by cramming/being lucky?</p>
<p>I think he involves some emotion in deciding that. For instance, there were a lot of slacking seniors in my class and I'm not entirely sure that they will get their B's/C's bumped up even though I am pretty sure 90+% of them got 5's.</p>
<p>That is strange. It seems very subjective.</p>
<p>Well, he is the science department head and he doesn't even have to change your grade in the first place. I think he said this just to encourage the seniors from falling into senioritis and failing the AP exam.</p>
<p>He's my favorite teacher though and is very good at what he does.</p>
<p>So if seniors were to get their grades changed, it wouldn't even matter, right? They've been accepted to college and their transcripts have already been sent out, haven't they?</p>
<p>Yeah, but don't forget that the school collects data on how many people score what on the AP tests. Since he's the only AP chem teacher and most of the kids are seniors with senioritis, he'll end up looking bad despite being a great teacher.</p>
<p>Not to mention he wants kids to get credit in college.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, I understand that. I think the kids in my uber-competitive school think that getting anything below an A is bad even if you're already accepted to college.</p>
<p>My son has a good friend who got an A in AP Calc AB and a 4 on the exam. My son got only a B in the class but a 5 on the exam. Somehow that doesn't seem fair to me....the AP exam is the whole point of taking the class.</p>
<p>no effect in my school</p>
<p>again, i find it RIDICULOUS if u get an A for PASSING the test. on the AP scores paper it even says wat the grade equivalent is in a college class. a 5 is an A, a 4 is a B or A, and a 3 is a B or C. i can understand getting a 5 and going up to an A, and maybe even a 4. but a 3!?</p>
<p>My AP English teacher informed us that she would be giving us a total of approximately six grades in accordance with our AP test results … but the school year ends in June, and the AP test results are supposed to be released in July, right? How is she going to modify our grades depending on our test scores if we already have final grades issued and the school year is over (meaning that she will no longer be our teacher and we will be in the middle of the summer vacation)? CAN she do what she says she will do?</p>
<p>A 3 on AP chem and APUSH (or above) and my teachers bump both semester grades 1 letter.</p>
<p>A 4 or higher for AP Lang and Macro equates to a letter grade bump as well. </p>
<p>I forgot what it was for AP Human, Psych, and World since they were last year and the year before that, but I believe a 3 on any of them equated to a letter grade bump.</p>
<p>Its kind of weird at my school so bare with me.</p>
<p>If you get a 3, 4, or 5 on the exam you move up to a C-, B-, or A- if you didn’t have it already. Usually though, my teacher says its mostly for people who get 5s as it isn’t as common for someone in the AP classes to get an A. Usually everyone has at least a B- already.</p>
<p>However, the teacher has to “approve” as in you actually still tried and all to pass the course. If you don’t do any of the work etc and/or flat out say “I’ll just get a 5 on the AP test!”, then you don’t get the grade boost.</p>
<p>How would they change the grade when the test results come back a full month after report cards are issued?</p>
<p>Lol no. Quite the opposite in my case, actually. If you take AP classes at my school, you are penalized for not doing the AP exam corresponding to the courses you took. Apparently, someone had the bright idea to propose that if an AP student does not take the AP exams, he/she should get a failing grade in all the semester and go straight to “recuperation” exams to get those AP grades up to decent levels,</p>
<p>I’m not taking AP’s at the US though. The educational system is kind of different in my country (and in particular, my state), therefore that kind of things can be allowed to happen. Kind of unfair, to be honest, considering that not everyone here can afford to throw away 120 dollars per exam (the fee’s higher for internationals)…</p>
<p>My school used to give grade boosts based on AP exam scores. After a lawsuit affecting our school, they do not give grade boosts anymore. However, teachers may give mock exams and offer grade boosts based off those mock scores instead. </p>
<p>[ACLU</a> California Affiliates Announce Major Settlement in School Fees Case | ACLU of Southern California](<a href=“http://www.aclu-sc.org/aclu-california-affiliates-announce-major-settlement-in-school-fees-case/]ACLU”>http://www.aclu-sc.org/aclu-california-affiliates-announce-major-settlement-in-school-fees-case/)
<a href=“http://www.layouth.com/fighting-for-ap-class-equality/[/url]”>http://www.layouth.com/fighting-for-ap-class-equality/</a></p>
<p>My school does nothing, but usually the students with a 3, 4, or 5 on the exam already have an A in the class.</p>
<p>Ahh so jealous of you guys.</p>
<p>If you fail the exam here, you either fail the class or get changed to honors credit instead of advanced placement credit.</p>
<p>Physics=5=Automatic A if one gets a 5. 3 bumps up one’s grade by 2% in second semester. 4=grade bump up for 2nd semester
5 5s, 4 4s, 4 3s last year
World history= Automatic A if one gets a 5, 4 bump ups one letter grade for one semester
3 5s, ? 4s for class of 2015</p>
<p>Only two teachers that bump up at my school.</p>