<p>wait,
people already received their scores????</p>
<p>You can get them by phone right now</p>
<p>I read the beginning of this last night, but most of it tonight. No response yesterday because before a teacher chimed in, I wanted to see what students said. I 100% agree with MathProf. In Lang, I can't teach natural writers much more than refining thier arguments and conciseness. I can also show tricks of the test, but watching some of those borderline kids score the 4 when I thought they were a 3/4 is why I love this job.</p>
<p>The flip side is that it hurts to see the 2/3 student make a 2, or a 3/4 make a 3.</p>
<p>English Language- A, 5- A TON of credit; he really helped me improve my writing a lot!
Biology- A, 4- Decent teacher, a pretty good amount of credit
World History-A, 4- A wonderful teacher...I really feel bad because it feels like a let him down.
US Government-A, 5- 1% credit! She didn't teach anything!!! Class consisted of her telling us what chapter to read, giving us a test every two weeks, and her going on random tangents on her own views for the rest of class! Good thing I'm a political junkie!</p>
<p>AP US - 5
Teacher was great and renown for having a very high AP average (I think it is higher than a 4) even with big classes. It was a very difficult course - only 2-3 students received A's or A-'s on each test.</p>
<p>AP Physics C - 5
Once again, excellent teacher. Extremely tough though, I received C's and B's on just about all of my tests first semester. However, we finished the curriculum extremely early and just had fun doing practice tests and studying quantum theory for the rest of the year.</p>
<p>AP Calc BC - 5
Once again (I may be saying this a few times), AMAZING teacher. He taught too much! I am a very independent math student and prefer to just sit back and learn on my own, but his teaching style was excellent for the less motivated student. Furthermore, he was so willing to help you out for any learning problem.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry - 3
This was completely my fault. I had an amazing teacher, but I just did not do the work and freaked out about a few parts of the exam. I feel like a disappointment for this exam.</p>
<p>AP European History - 5
Great teacher and actor! My Euro teacher came up with lots of funny performances to help us remember facts, figures, and trends.</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB - 4
Nice guy, but not the best teacher. I was one of three people to pass the exam that year. Unwilling students was part of the problem, but our teacher should have been more strict about homework and tests. He was willing to help out though if a student asked but was clearly an anti-AP teacher.</p>
<p>Chemistry: Snagged a 5 and had about a 98 or 99 in the class. I give the man HUGE amounts of credit- he emphasized understanding over memorization, which really made it all so much easier.</p>
<p>ap us history (canceled) - i give my teacher 75% of the credit. in the months leading up to the ap exam, i realized how little we covered. i know what i want to major in when i go to college.... so i prioritized and kind of blew it off. i know if i studied by myself though i would have gotten at least a 4 but my 4 would have been no thanks to him. i don't regret my decision though.</p>
<p>ap english language (4) - 90% to my teacher. can't believe i really scored a 4 though, i was expecting a 2 maybe 3. (especially since those are the highest scores my teacher has gotten)</p>
<p>ap statistics (4) - eh. i loved my teacher to death but in reality only like 25% goes to her. in the months leading up to the exam i started reviewing and discovered entire topics that we hadn't covered in class. it's not her fault, in my school statistics is kind of like a BS class seniors take and don't care about.... so it was hard for her to teach.</p>
<p>ap chemistry (5) - 790 on subject test.... 99.9999% to my teacher. I did have to teach myself electrochemistry, coordination complexes, and beers law but other than that she covered everything in depth.... crazy in depth. more in depth than the ap exam calls for. her quizzes were ridiculous. they had 3 questions that were like real life scenarios and basically if you got one wrong you failed the quiz... it was tough. everyone scored in the 70s/80s on the midterm (except me, i got a 91)... next year she'll be helping me with organic chem.</p>
<p>Spanish (5/780)- Teacher deserves all credit. He was a motivational slavedriver; that's what I needed.</p>
<p>English Lit (5/800)- None. Self-study, used books all read out of school.</p>
<p>US History (5/770)- Ehh. She was okay but I'd say Princeton Review the night before was my real savior.</p>
<p>Calculus BC (3/5) - Teacher deserves most credit for AB score. </p>
<p>Statistics (5) - teacher deserves little credit. I studied the barron's book and did all the tests to get that. </p>
<p>Chemistry (5) - teacher sucked. harangued me, told me I wouldn't do well because I didn't "try". So to hell with him. no credit. </p>
<p>English Language (5) - never took a class, so I get the credit. </p>
<p>English Lit (4) - never took a class, so I get the credit. </p>
<p>Computer Science (3) - never took a class, so I get the credit.</p>
<p>Biology - 4: my teacher gave us a lot of resources but didn't really teach, so I'll give her half of the credit, haha</p>
<p>Computer Science - 5: totally. my teacher was pretty awesome. pushed us really hard, to the point where the week before the AP we were programming nonstop and staying late nights to finish projects and assignments.</p>
<p>US Government - 2: my teacher did an amazing job; we thought we were all prepared for the exam. If the exam had been pure US Government I'm sure my entire class would have swept with 5's, but they threw in those two damn Econ/APUSH-esque FRQs and--</p>
<p>English Literature - 5: my teacher is amazing, but I had already been getting high A's in her class since day one. She was a really good teacher but I can't attribute my success to her since I was kind of already (truthfully) well on the way.</p>
<p>French Literature - 4: yeah, that sounds about right. I didn't do much in the class besides read and analyze like a machine, so I guess her constant pushing and discussion paid off. I was the only student, after all.</p>
<p>No results for Physics C and Economics yet, but I know I owe my Economics teacher everything if I get a high score.</p>
<p>2007</p>
<p>Chem-4: Considering that honors didn't prep me very well and was a waste of time, I couldn't have done it without my AP Chem teacher. She was awesome and we didn't waste any time. :) </p>
<p>US Govt-5: Really easy, but my teacher overprepped us. I think the pass rate at my school is pretty high. Probably could have self studied it, but my teacher nonetheless gave us some pretty good practice (some other things were irrelevant, but that's OK.) </p>
<p>Calc AB-5: Didn't know anything about Calc. Teacher wasn't that great, but he taught me enough. </p>
<p>English Lang-4: OK, we seriously just screwed around until about a month before the AP test. Everyone else in the class was freaking out, but somehow, a ton of us passed the test magically. Not that much credit goes to my teacher. </p>
<p>2008</p>
<p>Bio-4: Absolutely couldn't have done it without my teacher. She was very interesting, informative, and fun. I always laughed in her class. </p>
<p>English Lit-4: We did so much work. I don't even know how I did that well, considering that on my practice tests I always got low multiple choice and essay scores (to the point where I'd probably get a 2.) My teacher was awesome; she didn't waste my time unlike other teachers. It was definitely rigorous, but worth it, and I'm not even all that interested in lit. My teacher gets credit for somehow helping me think more critically. </p>
<p>Calc BC-4: OK, I slacked a bit in this class and that was pretty much the entire attitude in the class, but that's all right. We had an entire year to do very little work, so I probably could have self-studied again, but the class in general was pretty good.</p>
<p>I say my teachers should get ALL the credit if I pass. I had two AMAZING teachers for AP World History. They got us quality textbooks from Bentley and Zeigler(two guys who WRITE the AP Exams), they researched review books, set up morning, afterschool, and weekend tutorings...and I swear, they were PROPHETS. Both stressed essay-writing so we studied the rubrics and wrote tons of essays throughout the year...and two of them showed up on the AP! One of them we wrote the week before!</p>
<p>I don't have my score yet so I'm not sure how I did, but I really think I passed.</p>
<p>(but I failed...there will be hell to pay, lol)</p>
<p>just kidding...</p>
<p>I only sat for 5 exams over the course of high school that were based on AP courses I took. Out of those, I'm certain I failed one due to my laziness and incompetence, got 5s on two that I would have received regardless of whether I even took the class at all, got a 3 purely from listening to roughly half the teacher's lectures (so despite that particular teacher's awful reputation, he was pretty solid), and I don't know what I got on the fifth exam, but very little of the credit is due to that teacher (largely because I spent more time outside his class than in it.)</p>
<p>For this year:
Micro - 5 - This teacher was given this class one week before school started. He knew nothing about econ, and they gave him no time whatsoever to prepare. However, he did a great job considering his circumstances, and so part of my score goes to him.</p>
<p>Macro - 4 - same teacher, but by this point in the year it was all chaos. I can't say I give much of any of my score on this one.</p>
<p>US Government - 4 - Same teacher again. I feel like I let him down by getting a 4 in the class he taught best. He did a great job teaching it, and the fact that I didn't get a 5 was completely my fault.</p>
<p>English Lit - 5 - We had a solid literature teacher, but after I finished the MC I thought, "Well, there really wasn't much preparation for that at all." He covered many works of literature and did a great job helping us with writing (especially analyzing poetry), so he deserves some credit. But I got a 5 on English the year before (that teacher deserved almost 0 credit) so I don't think I would've had a problem without this teacher.</p>
<p>^^^ ah! I meant if i failed. typo, lol :)</p>
<p>English-absolutely none. my teacher last year deserves most of the credit for teaching me analysis techniques.
History-NOT AT ALL!</p>
<p>English Lit-4 Ehh. Thought I might get a 5 this year. I guess I'm happy with a 4 though. Teacher "over-prepped" us with TONS of work, which I thought didn't really help much to ace the AP test but it did make me a better writer, I believe.</p>
<p>Gov- 5 Just read the book and paid the least attention possible to my teacher. Easy AP test overall.</p>
<p>Calc AB- 5 Amazing teacher and overall my favorite AP subject to date. I loved the class. I think my calc teacher deserves all the credit you can possibly give him for my score! (although I'm supposedly amazing @ calc! lol)</p>
<p>PHYS B- 3 damn this class. I self-studied (or at least I tried to. lol) most of it cuz my teacher never covered the other half of the test. teach. was a nice guy but just not a good teacher for AP level. In the end, it was my fault though for not gettin a 5 since I could've and should've studied it more dutifully. Yea, I failed myself, but oh well UCSD doesn't even give any good credit for this class. I get what I deserve!</p>
<p>U.S. History- 5 - I give my teacherl little credit, as her pass rate is sub-30% and she is reknown for doing a poor job. I do, however, give much credit to Bailey's "American Pageant."</p>
<p>English Language and Composition- 5 - Teacher notorious for being lazy, never taught us rhetorical modes/strategies.</p>
<p>Biology- 5 - Teacher gets most of the credit. He did a fantastic job, he is a local legend in biology, and even has a master's degree in biology. It was also his 20+ year of teaching A.P. bio.</p>
<p>AP Calc AB - I had previously taken BC, so I didn't really study, but I still give about 95% CREDIT to my BC teacher who was really tough but really good. 5 on both.</p>
<p>Statistics - My teacher was also my assistant decathlon coach, a great teacher and a wonderful person. She knew the material inside and outside and tested us often. I was confident that I was prepared through her, so I didn't study as much for that one; I focused on harder tests. I give her close to 100% credit for my 5.</p>
<p>AP Psych - My teacher was really funny and really nice, and good and she prepared us pretty well. I know that if I had studied more I would have gotten a 5 instead of my 4. I still give her a good 70-80% credit, though.</p>
<p>AP Chem - My chem teacher was good. Really good. She taught well and she was patient and kind. She knew her weaknesses and did her best to teach us despite them, but she was honest enough to tell us that we also needed to self study some areas like buffers where she felt she did a poor job of teaching. I really respected that honesty and give her about 85% credit for my 5.</p>
<p>AP USH - I took this in summer where I had a really difficult teacher who made sure that we knew the information inside and out. She went out of her way to give us essays and DBQs more often than we wanted. I got back to school and my Academic Decathlon head coach was the USHistory teacher there, so after state he helped me review the information. I'd give my teachers together 90% CREDIT - 70 for summer school, 20 for the regular year. 5.</p>
<p>AP Compsci- I really d this class after a while. I couldn't stand my hypocritical, dishonest, lazy teacher and honestly wanted to drop the class. I couldn't pay attention in his class because every lecture was interrupted by his video game references/sports/inappropriate subject matter/unprecedented tirades. I had to pretty much self study my 4 because he didn't teach Linked Lists or nodes or trees or maps or sets well enough. I'd give him 15% credit.</p>
<p>AP English - We wrote alot of essays. It actually bordered on obnoxiousness. But it was worth it, I practiced essays and MC alot outside of class, but my 5 was probably due 80% to her teaching.</p>
<p>I give my AP french teacher 100 % credit for my decision not to take the exam. Her pass rate the year before was about 15-20%, and this year it was probably no better. There was no way I was going to take it.</p>
<p>All in all I had mostly great teachers, just a few weaker ones.</p>
<p>Psych: 5- 100% =]
Govt: 5- I'll cut him some credit. I'll call it 50/50.
US: 5- Eh. 40%
World: 5. 0%. I learned NOTHING in that room...
English: 3 - 100% She sucked at teaching it.</p>