<p>So, my A just dropped to a 79% after getting a 50% on a test. Sigh. And it's not like the 50% is all that bad, the class average was 61%. Woulda gotten a 70% had I not forgotten to do one of the essays (there were 3 essays, and the class took too long on the test so the teacher let us take home one essay to do. yeah I know, I'm stupid for forgetting, but it's too late now). </p>
<p>Now I have to somehow pull it back up to an A but it's like...impossible. The highest grades on our tests range between like 85-89%, without nobody getting higher then an A. And there are LOTS of smart kids in the class, many of which like...never get below a 95% in classes and work very hard yet don't even do well in AP Econ. After calculating what I need to get on the next few tests I'm going to need 93+% on the next three tests (we only have like 7 total) to pull off an A. </p>
<p>The problem is our teacher's tests are insane cause she takes problems from practice/old AP tests that are related to the topic we are studying. Additionally, all of her essays come from AP tests too. And she doesn't curve/weigh our grades at all. So basically, she's expecting us to get 90+% on an actual AP test in order to get an A. It's f-ing impossible. She does however gives us lots of free points, so if you average like 85+% on tests you'll end up with an A. </p>
<p>Oh, and btw, our teacher is...horrible at teaching. Not a single good student in the class listens to her during class. Most of us all sit there and study our book / do practice problems from it while she "attempts" to lecture. </p>
<p>Your teacher doesn't give you curves on tests?</p>
<p>My AP teacher does, but one girl gets a 100% every time, so we haven't gotten a curve yet.</p>
<p>For improving your grade, make sure you do all of your homework and more importantly, study. Read through the chapters two times if you have to.</p>
<p>I already study...alot, at least from the book, giong to start reading each chapter twice for the test now instead of once already. We don't get homework, but I do lots of practice problems (about 50 a day). And imagine that girl that gets 100% everytime, in our class, it's the same thing, except she gets 85-89% everytime. In like every other class she has she's 100% everytime. And we don't get a curve. </p>
<p>Basically the way I look at it is, just keep on doing millions of practice problems / studying from the book and pray my grade goes up. Anything else I can do :(?</p>
<p>Apparently my teacher believes in the idea that AP courses should be like "college-courses" therefore we don't get hw. So instead I assign myself homework everyday (like 50 practice problems) :s. I don't get it, no matter how hard I work I never get above 85% on the tests :/</p>
<p>Um, actually I have a B right now, I just dropped my A to a B by getting 50% on my last test. The class average was 61%. Woulda gotten a 70% had I not forgotten to do one of the essays (there were 3 essays, and the class took too long on the test so the teacher let us take home one essay to do. yeah I know, I'm stupid for forgetting, but it's too late now).</p>
<p>Our AP Econ tests are taken directly from actual AP tests. Our teacher creates 0 of the questions herself. On the essays it even says "1999 AP Test or 2000" or w/e. She keeps telling us how 60% is good when it's like a D in her class. She's like OHH THIS IS GOOD EVERYONE GETTING AROUND 60%, THAT"S A 5 ON THE AP TEST.</p>
<p>That is unbelievably unfair. My chem teacher makes it so that a 67% is a 90% because you need a 67% ish for a 5 and a 5= college A. That's only on tests, but it helps. Perhaps ou can ask your guidance counselor- maybe your teacher doesn't realize the difficulty of the tests. </p>
<p>If not, practice the old FRQs that you can find online- maybe even buy a couple old exams.</p>
<p>tell me ebout it. i have a C- right now in econ.</p>
<p>our teacher is absolutely inept. it's her first time teaching AP, so she really doesn't know what the heck she's doing. </p>
<p>everybody in the class is getting a C or D (with the exception of this one girl who we've all decided as a class is not human). everyone in this class got an A in APUSH last year, so we're maybe thinking it's not us.</p>
<p>zkevin, I am in your exact situation, i just got a 65% on one of those tests because she wrote all the directions incorectly and in the wrong places. damn teacher...</p>
<p>she also believes in having tests exactly like the AP econ test, except she doesn't have a curve so nobody gets over 90%</p>
<p>I thought the AP Econ free response questions were easy. About 6 people in my class of 20, including me, could complete one section within 10 minutes, relatively flawlessly.</p>
<p>So today we went over the test in class. Our test was 50 multiple choice questions + 3 AP essays (it said the essays alone should take 50 minutes on the instructions sheet (they were taken from old AP exams) ). We were expected to get 90+% on everything and FINISH the test in one hour twenty minutes for an A. We took the whole class period to work through 40 multiple chocie questions as a class. Not to mention, our teacher couldn't explain half the questions that the class argued on (or someone else had to explain it) and usually was like...oh well..umm THIS ANSWER IS BETTER and can't prove it. Sigh. I bet if our own teacher took the test she'd get below 40%. -.-</p>
<p>I think if I do bad on one more test I'm goign to get the whole class to go complain to the conseluing office (as our whole class is unbelivable ****ed off).</p>
<p>Don't complain to the counseling office...they can't do jack **** about it. Complain to the principal's office, the dean of students' office, the superintendent's office, the headmaster's office...you get the idea.</p>