<p>There seems to be a lot of people on this forums crying about how they want to re-score their "low-scores" (if you have a 1, I feel bad for you). Some says that they got 98% in the class, but seriously, grade don't show how well you know the materials. I got a D in AP Chem (my first AP Class), and got a 5 on the test. I got a D mainly because my teacher was a super hard grader and the class average was a C. Seriously, don't use the grade excuse on your low score.</p>
<p>The problem is that class grades are supposed to show how much you know the material, and thereby at least kind of reflect your AP score. After all, the AP score reflects the kind of grade you’d expect to see in a college classroom setting, with 5=A (and 4= B etc.). When the class grade and AP score don’t match up I think that it’s rational for someone to wonder what went wrong, and frankly, it’s easiest to try to find fault in the college board as opposed to finding fault in self.</p>
<p>On another note, no one scoring a 5 should receive a D in the class unless some type of work went unfinished. Not only does it ruin the transcripts of well prepared students, but it also discourages the study of a subject</p>
<p>Yea, this really discouraged me to do any kind of Chemistry in college. T.T I wonder if I should have waited until next year because they’re changing the curriculum.</p>
<p>I was meant to get a 5. It was written in the stars. And yet I didn’t. A grade won’t prove anything but if you knew me you could tell that I was 5 material, and yet the evil college board gave me 2s.</p>
<p>Well, you got the five, which would get you an A in most colleges. The teacher’s grading probably wont change much between this year and next year. Furthermore, in retrospect of the ap world and biology changes (having taken them both in the first year of the new curriculum), I’d reccomend against taking them without knowing how the test will look like and the grading curves. The percentage of fives went down dramatically in both after the curriculum change, so waiting would’ve probably hurt you.</p>
<p>Also, AP scores don’t reflect how smart you are. They reflect how much of the material you’ve learned and retained.</p>
<p>I don’t think class grades give a hint on what a person might score on the AP exam. In schools with a lot of high grade inflation I don’t think that’s possible. </p>
<p>Also, I agree with Gwenyland. Grades and scores never truly reflect a person’s intelligence.</p>
<p>Grades and AP scores don’t really reflect each other at all. AP scores have to do with how well you understand the subject, and (at least in my experience) grades in the corresponding classes have a lot more to do with how often you complete the homework and classwork.</p>
<p>AP classes are more closely related to college courses, where busy work does not make up most of the points in the grade book.</p>
<p>I got A’s in AP Language and APUSH and only got 3’s on those exams. And on the other end of that spectrum, I got a C- in AP Psych because I never turned in a single assignment, but got a 4 on the AP test because I understood the material.</p>