<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I know this is very long, but I really need advice right now, and any input is much appreciated. </p>
<p>I'm in a complex situation right now.
Here's the breakdown:
I'm going to be a senior this upcoming school year, and I've gotten near-straight As all through high school up to this point. However, I have received a B+/B in AP English Language junior year.
The thing is, my English teacher only handed out 1 A- total out of both semesters in two classes of AP English Language. So out of around 40 students, only 1 person received 1 A-. That was only for a semester; he received a B first semester.</p>
<p>All year I've pestered my teacher about my grades. I've been getting mostly 4s on my timed writes, and she said first semester that my grade should reflect the result on the AP exam.
Now that AP exam results have been released, I was surprised to learn that I'd gotten a 5.</p>
<p>Now, when the school year ended, she had not posted the semester grades yet. I came back a week later and she informed me that I'd gotten a B. I looked at my grade report and she told me that 2 timed writes were not graded, saying that "Oh I just glanced at a few of the class' timed writes and they weren't pretty good. I just gave credit for them." These two timed writes, coincidentally, were the two that I felt I did my best on the whole semester. Timed writes and essays make up 80% of our grades, so I was pretty mad to say the least that she would not grade them - laziness on her part >=(. I asked her if she could grade them and she said she wouldn't because then she'd have to grade all the rest of the timed writes and that it would hurt other people's grades if she did so. </p>
<p>I managed to get her phone number and email address and she said she'd contact me to tell me what my grade would have been with the 2 timed writes graded. She never did contact me however, and it's been over a week. She said when I left that one day after getting my grade that she'd change it to a B+ if I got a 5. Something tells me though that she did not expect me to get a 5 when she said that. Last year, only 3 people in her class got an A, and one of them got a 3 on the AP exam. </p>
<p>So now my question is, what should I do?
Should I call her and ask if she can change my grade to a B+, or maybe an A-? I mean, getting a 5 on the AP exam that has the lowest percentage of people receiving 5s, isn't that enough for an A- at least? Have teachers received our AP scores yet? It's been a really frustrating year in this class.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>