<p>I got back my first AP Gov test and I got an 89% - my teacher let me argue/defend my answers and I got back some points so now I have a 95%. He also really liked my FRQ so he said that if I type it up for him and let the class see it as an example, he'll bump my grade up even more...</p>
<p>But that grade getting bumped up doesn't really matter much to me - the MC's that I got wrong were straight from previous AP exams, so they weren't really up to interpretation in the eyes of the Collegeboard. If it was an actual AP Exam, I would've gotten zero credit.</p>
<p>95% is the highest grade in the class - with a class low of 10% and an average of 58% - but my Gov class isn't the brightest group of kids in the world anyway and its a lot of people's first AP. </p>
<p>What concerns me is that Gov is supposed to be "my thing." My friends joke that AP Gov was "designed for (my name)" - heck, my name on this site is Preamble1776... AP Gov is the condensed AP version of what I hope to major in when I'm in college and my potential career... and I can't even pull off a "real" A on the first (and easiest) test... </p>
<p>Granted, I didn't necessarily read the chapter as well as I could have... I kind of just skimmed it the night before... but the stuff on the test was really rudimentary stuff, like the difference between socialism and capitalism and whatnot.</p>
<p>89% of the questions on the AP Exam aren’t going to be about what Socialism is or what Republicans think of abortion. Its gonna be much more complex.</p>
<p>I have no idea. I freak over every 80-94 I get. I almost never get eighties but I now carry a 86 in research. I totally slack off on the research paper due and could’ve gotten a 14/20 but she was lenient and gave me a 17/20. I should stop that. I set my goals and I need to accomplish them. I had a humanities quiz today which was worth 43 points. It wasn’t hard, though I feel asif I could’ve done better. I just look ahead and figure out how I can get a better grade, prepare for that, and then strive for it.</p>
<p>I have like a 99% in the class but that’s because 70% of our grade is homework and participation and our summer work was a test grade which I received a 100% on - so combined, my test average is a ~97% but my actual, unchanged, literal test average for the first real examination in the class is an 89% and that makes me sad. B+. Pa-toohy.</p>
<p>@ScienceKid99 - Homework and classwork, homework is 40% and classwork is 30%.</p>
<p>@Repede - Being happy about my grade would make too much sense. I have to overcomplicate things. But in all seriousness, its AP US Politics and Gov - I should be stuntin’ in that class.</p>
<p>I’d hate to take a class that has a grade that comes mostly for homework… In all my classes this year it is 75% tests and 25% homework; I love it</p>
<p>Really? Why? Wouldn’t it be much easier to do well when homework was the major portion of the grade, especially if the homework was effort based - like notes, rather than say, online questionnaires/quizzes?</p>
<p>Guess its easier for people who can’t compensate for their testing anxiety? That’s only my theory,otherwise I’d agree. I do relatively good on all my tests. I wouldn’t feel accomplished nor challenged if my grade was high because of such easy work.</p>
<p>Yeah, I see what you mean about be challenged and everything. But at the same time, when testing takes up the majority of the grade, one minor slip up could jeopardize your whole grade. I got an A- on a Calculus test and it dropped my grade like 7 points because tests are 75% of the grade. I had a sad that day. LOL.</p>
<p>I have cross county, outdoor track, indoor track (2 hours a day), math team, scholar’s bowl, debate team, science olympiad (if it doesn’t conflict with the others), and national honors society. Some days I literally can not finish my homework from my 5 AP classes (I dont get home till 5:30-6:00), so thats why I love having 75% of my grade come from tests. </p>
<p>I’d fail the class with a grading scale like yours; I also wouldn’t take near as many AP classes.</p>
<p>Stop freaking out about your grades. Learn from your mistakes, pick yourself up, and keep going. Don’t be so fragile that a B+ shatters you. You can’t always be the best and you’re not always going to get an A. You can’t let grades define you. Do your personal best and make it through.</p>
<p>LOL. No, I should stop laughing before that totally backfires and happensto me… Lol no, not that superstitious. But that’s crazy, that’s how my research grade went down too. Got an 85 on the paper and it dropped by 15% -_- MISSION: COMEBACK TIME!</p>