How to deal with a bad AP teacher?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I know that the usual advice is to self-study, but I'm more worried about getting an A/high B in the class. The year's just started and I'm at an 80, so I'm pretty worried.</p>

<p>The teacher in question is my AP Lang teacher, so it's even worse since English is subjective. She doesn't teach much and assigns a lot of homework, but that's not my main problem with her: it's that she insists we follow a bunch of silly red-tape-ish rules, such as only being allowed to write in pen and follow a certain fill-in-the-blank type sentence format when writing analyses. Her essay grading system is the same way- I suspect she's a speed reader since if we don't open with a direct topic sentence and support with 3 paragraphs + conclusion, etc, she'll mark it off.</p>

<p>Me failing the class would be quite ironic, since I have one of the highest SAT and ACT scores in the class. Besides transferring out of the class (which one person has already done), do you have any suggestions?</p>

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<p>Just follow her rules in class and study for the AP test outside. If you know all the rules to getting an A, why don’t you just follow them?</p>

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<p>Then you must be very good at following arbitrary writing conventions. I don’t see what the problem is.</p>