My school some reason adds an entire 9% to your grades for Honors and AP courses. So If you had 97%, it changes to 106% in your Report Card. I think they do this just because of a rule a long time ago but never got around to change it.
For me personally, I have 2 classes where I am great in and am able to get 109%, 2 where I range in between 100% and 106%, 1 AP class where I range around 95% and 99%, and then a regular class that I can only get up to 100%, but am around 98% to 99%. I think this inflation of both AP and Honors courses unjustly demands more out of electives that may be harder than an AP/Honor course. For example, right now I am taking an elective that is taught by an AP teacher, so it’s not much easier. My concern isn’t mainly college, mostly on the principle of the matter.
I think these AP/Honors courses should have increased importance to encourage students to take them, but not overly so to where people take them solely for the extra 9%. Even a reduction to 6% for Honors would be better (my Honors courses are the easiest). If they continue a basic percent added on, they should lower it down to 3% and 4%, but I doubt that will occur anytime soon. The problem is when one student is taking 4 to 5 Honors/AP courses vs a full 6 Honors/AP courses, one is basically promised a higher GPA, at least with this reduction, competition will still exist.