<p>Ok, well in my high school, we have a pretty diverse of teachers. A lot of my frineds for example have teachers that do not even teacher. When I say they do not teacher, I mean in the sense of them being to damn lazy to teach. They never grade papers, they give out the easiest tests, and they check homework. The class is like a complete joke and an easy A. And I for example, have the strict teachers who do teacher but they are tough and assign plenty of homework and make like the hardest tests. It is kinda unfair and frustrates me but I kinda get over it. I always think to myself that if I really want it that bad, I should just step up to the challenge and do it. Do any of you have this same problem or experience? I am in my junior year and starting to look at colleges. Ohh well, their knowledge will show up on the SAT.</p>
<p>Woah, I don’t mean to be a grammar nazi but yikes… :P</p>
<p>^ Yeah, haha, sorry. It is a forum. I was just typing the words that came to my head. wasnt trying :)</p>
<p>Lol 
id edit it now :D</p>
<p>Evan:</p>
<p>At the University of Florida, I understand that your grade point average will be computed only based on your core courses. I presume many colleges do that.</p>
<p>Further, the reason the ACT and the SAT and AP exams are important is that it helps distinguish “real” “A” students from the “pretend” “A” students you mentioned.</p>
<p>When a college sees a kid got an “A” in AP History, but only got a “2” on the AP exam, I think they quickly figure out that the “A” was an inflated grade.</p>
<p>When they see a kid who is valecdictorian, but only has a 27 ACT, I think they can figure out that this kid is really not top notch (please, no responses about a kid being a “bad test taker”)</p>
<p>I got screwed over like that in Honors Chemistry. I had the teacher that couldn’t teach well. (Did get an A though, but pretty much taught myself)</p>
<p>Floridadad55: Your statement about the AP exams reflecting the in class grade is absolutely rediculous.</p>
<p>Definitely not. The best teachers in my school have lots of kids get Bs and 5s.</p>
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<p>I’d disagree. An “A” in the class and a failing AP exam score certainly hints at grade inflation while a “B” or “C” along with a 5 implies grade deflation. How else would colleges judge the difficulty (or lack thereof) of an AP class? Sure, colleges will take the results with a grain of salt (someone who worked really hard for an “A” gets really sick and only scores a “3”) but there are definitely connections drawn between class grade and AP score.</p>
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Funny how in the last post of yours that I read you misused the relative pronoun “whom.”</p>
<p>^^
Yeah, exactly. There shouldn’t be more of a one point difference between grade and exam score. Someone with an ‘A’ should be getting a 4 or a 5, someone with a ‘B’ a 3 or a 4, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe the kid was just a bad test taker, but in reality was actually smart enough to pull of an A. Also, news flash guys, some teachers don’t teach to the test. In my APUSH class, which is very rigorous, only 20-30% of the kids get As because the workload is so hard, and even they rarely get above a 3.</p>
<p>Colleges take AP Exams with a grain of salt because they don’t accurately reflect highschool courses. What if the teacher strays away from the exam and teaches “irrelevant” subject matter.</p>
<p>By the way this is coming from someone with 6 5’s on AP exams (only a senior)</p>
<p>Which AP class is this? Unless it is hard as heck like Physics C or Art History, then maybe it is just a bad teacher.</p>
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<p>Well, MOST students get a fair balance of joke classes and non-joke classes.
For example, my Physics, Web Tech, and Choir classes are ‘joke’ classes. Easy A’s.
On the other hand, my Pre-AP Pre-Calc and Computer Science classes are the ‘you-better-be-working-your-freakin’-butt-off-if-you-wanna-pass’ kind. </p>
<p>Besides, the SAT and ACT does give the college an idea of whose ‘naturally intelligent’.
(Unfortunately, if you have a good SAT score and a not-so-good GPA <em>cough</em> me <em>cough</em> then they assume you’re lazy.)</p>
<p>I think in the end it all evens out.</p>
<p>AP test grades do reflect the level of learning…AP courses cover a set syllabus and all students are tested on the same material. If a student gets an A on the report card, and does miserably on the AP test, it does imply that the high school course is not rigorous or that there is a high level of grade inflation…for example, a student not excelling on exams that are as rigorous as that on the AP test, and instead earning lots of points towards an “A” grade for things like turning in homework or doing “extra credit” with things like posters, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, for me I had a HORRIBLE chem teacher. I ended up getting a 2 in the class, but I got a 99% on the Chemistry Final which was made by ALL the teachers. It’s just one of those things where it sucks, but you have to try anyway. All my friends had great chem teachers, but I had a terrible one.</p>
<p>Consider this, I just don’t feel like relearning all the material for AP World freshman year when I have to study for all my other classes and the credit won’t really get you out of much for a math/CS major, so even though I preformed very well the entire year, I got a 3 on the exam because by not studying it allowed me to mantain my other grades ( I had a pretty hard time this year). However I am perfectly able to handle studying for my AP’s now (last year and now Junior year) as I have had ample time to teach my self to prioritize and not procrastinate.</p>