<p>I'm not sure if that's the right question I'm trying to ask but....
Do your teachers actually spend a good amount of time reading over them or do you get an automatic 100 for atleast doing the assignment? And how much effort do you put into your summer work?</p>
<p>They look over them a good bit but aren’t critical it’s basically a grade based on demonstrated effort.</p>
<p>I treat my work like legitimate essays/projects and it paid off.</p>
<p>They grade it like any other large assignment, I assume. I doubt they’ll spend too much time looking over the work, but they won’t give out automatic A’s just for completion. </p>
<p>I put in a good amount of effort in my summer work to make sure I get good grades on the assignments and start the year off strong. Prime example: English - I’ve already written over 8000 words for the assignment and I’m still not done. Albeit, a lot of that comes from quotes, but yeah…</p>
<p>Sophomore year I just had to read a book; we didn’t get a grade on it. This year I had to read a book a write an essay about it…it’s out of 200 points, but my teacher said it’s our first assignment she’d grade it more leniently (not an automatic A though).</p>
<p>I’d imagine with some sort of colored pen.</p>
<p>AP Stats - We got 50/50 if it was complete
AP Physics - Everyone got 11 points off automatically. The teacher’s reasoning is that if someone had an A, they wouldn’t take the opportunity to do corrections for partial credit. So he made sure everyone had a B or lower so that most people would take advantage of the opportunity to do corrections, and actually learn something. How many additional points you lost depended on how many you got wrong but it was somewhat arbitrary. There was also a 5 point deduction if you didn’t sign a piece of paper saying you read the directions before summer began.
AP Lit - Hasn’t been graded yet, but I’m guessing everyone will get an A unless they didn’t do it/didn’t do it right/their response is particularly horrible. We also had multiple choice quizzes over the books, graded the way a standard quiz is.</p>
<p>I’ve had the Stats teacher before and I know almost all assigned work (including the summer assignment she gave last year for ap calc) is graded based on completion, so I didn’t put a whole lot of effort into it. AP Physics and AP Lit I actually tried hard on. The Lit assignment was a blog post and everybody else was able to read it so I didn’t want to sound stupid. I feel like Physics will be my hardest class, so I put effort into it because I know I’ll have to try really hard for it.</p>
<p>Well this year (sophomore) we just had a history essay and some math work. I think that the essay will be graded, but considering that the math work came with an answer sheet, I doubt that that will be graded. Last year I worked my butt off on a super long paper and visual assignment for APHG, but it wasn’t graded :(</p>
<p>It depends on the assignment. For example, for APUSH, my teacher will critically grade our DBQ in-depth, but will probably only glance over our terms and give us a 100 for perceived effort. </p>
<p>AP Bio almost all of the work is graded very critically, with many people receiving low B’s and even C’s on summer work that was worked on vaguely hard.</p>
<p>AP Calculus - We were graded online through a system that allotted points to certain questions correct/wrong, etc. However, we do not know how that will be put into our grades once school starts this week. We were told not to worry too much about our calculated grade, as the point of the assignment was just to keep our minds focused on math throughout the summer.</p>
<p>AP English Literature - 100% effort based. If you showed that you worked hard on the assignment, you get a 100, even if the work you put forth was incorrect (like you incorrectly analyzed a theme - as long as you analyzed it, you get a 100.)</p>
<p>AP Politics and Gov - Half is effort, half is whether or not you actually understand the content. This class is usually most people’s first AP who haven’t ever taken an AP before (seniors that typically slacked off until just now) - so a lot of kids aren’t used to AP level work, so the expectations of the teacher will probably be quite lower.</p>