<p>ap psych: I don't think she prepares us for the exam (asked us today how many of us expect to take the test)</p>
<p>apush: we just read and she doesn't do much. I guess this is normal</p>
<p>ap physics: we barely learn anything (main worry)</p>
<p>mainly worried about physics. boo.</p>
<p>^ APUSH - Story of my friggen life. My teacher couldn’t teach for the life of him.</p>
<p>I’m a little worried about AP Chem. It’s my teacher’s first year. I’m thinking I’m going to get a 3 no matter how hard I try.</p>
<p>One teacher at my school was fresh out of college, in his VERY early 20’s, and hadn’t even been teaching for a year and he became the APUSH teacher. I think there was something wrong with that–aren’t AP teachers supposed to be at least three years experienced or something? Even though he wasn’t terrible I remember he made students do a lot of useless work.</p>
<p>AP Physics B- She got her undergraduate degree at Florida Atlantic University and then went for her Graduate at Columbia University. I was really shocked to hear that. Despite her accomplishments she can’t really teach well. She definetley knows her Physics but she doesn’t know how to explain it well with us. I’m truly worried for AP Physics B. I guess I’ll just have to rely on the text book than her.</p>
<p>AP US History-Most amazing teacher, hands down. She teaches well and Is highly “interesting”.</p>
<p>My AP Chem teacher didn’t even lecture. He made some stupid, incomprehensible podcasts that we had to watch for homework. We did the homework in class. He was in his twenties. </p>
<p>Class sucked.</p>
<p>Lol it’s funny how those very teachers probably complained about inadequate teachers when they were in high school and have ended up doing just so.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher was a joke. We spent class discussing things completely off-topic, cancelled class more often than not, and the only thing we did that was actually related to US History was watch movies. It was amazing. The teacher is an awesome guy; he lived in a ton of different countries growing up and had stories about breaking into embassies and selling illicit products at the age of 10. So the class was fascinating, it just didn’t exactly prepare us for the exam. I didn’t take one note, read one word of our book, do one assignment (including essays…he wasn’t the most observant guy when it came to not handing in assignments) and finished with a B.</p>
<p>Same with my APUSH teacher!!! He’s like 30 with about 5 years teaching experience. He’s a good teacher but he’s not fit for AP work. We discuss useless topics instead of the BIG, IMPORTANT topics. He would give us long, droning power point lectures. We wasted so much time meticulously going through parts that wouldn’t be on the AP test.</p>
<p>His tests were awful too. The answer choices were either vague or similar and only a couple people could pull off A’s.</p>
<p>He NEVER, ALMOST NEVER, gave back our tests. He procrastinated more than us. He’d give lame excuses and say “umm next week”. I think he just made up our quarter grades. One semester I got an A when I never got an A on his tests!!! Fail grading system.</p>
<p>^ LOL the last paragraph sounds exactly like my teacher. Last term our grade was composed of two tests and a term paper. I got a C on one test, an F on the other, didn’t hand in the paper, and got a B for the term. He was exactly the same way with never handing anything back – he always said “next week, next week! what, I didn’t give those back?! What? No, you didn’t take a test.” Honestly, I loved it, though. I hate history and I’m absolutely horrible at it; I usually have to work hard for a decent grade, so I was just happy to get a B without doing anything.</p>
<p>^ my friends saw my history grade and they instantly knew it was wrong. They were like “no fair go to guidance and get it fixed NOW!” I never got it fixed…</p>
<p>If this grading mistake happened 2 yrs ago could administration detect it and accuse me of cheating? (I think my teacher just made up grades…)</p>
<p>No, it’s not cheating. And it sounds like it wasn’t a grading mistake by the teacher but just laziness/making up grades (same way in my situation). I had people saying the same thing – “Oh my god, that’s not fair!! I worked so hard on that paper!” Well, that’s their problem.</p>
<p>AP Chem. I took it for the challenge and cuz I liked honors chem. Its the teacher’s 2nd year teaching AP Chem. Last year’s class was a bunch of 3’s and 2’s and some 1’s. Barely any 4s (havent heard any 5s)… this is coming from a class who took AP Bio the year before (the entire class) and most got 5s. Wooh.</p>
<p>My district never fires anyone and has an average experience 10 years higher than any surrounding district.</p>
<p>However, all the surrounding districts have much better high schools. Unlike your guys’ teacher, all the old teachers suck, and the newer teachers are awesome.</p>
<p>my ap bio teacher is awful</p>
<p>AP Comparative Government teachers both suck, though the better one lives 3 houses down from me. I had the worse one, where all I did was sleep. Didn’t study or learn a thing, and got a 4. The AP US Gov teacher, I heard, is a lot better. He might also be my IB History teacher.</p>