<p>getting a 5 on the AP exam or getting an A in the class?</p>
<p>in our school the 5's definitely easier and I don't think that makes too much sense</p>
<p>5 is SO much easier for me to get than A in the class.</p>
<p>Class = 90% average = A</p>
<p>AP Exam = much less than 90% = 5</p>
<p>5 on exam. You can get a 5 with a week's memorization depending on the subject and a little luck. Class = rigorous testing > hell</p>
<p>Class is so much easier. Our tests basically involve plugging in numbers into formulas... and grade is based purely on tests :D</p>
<p>A definitely. I mean you can mess up a test and get an A in the class. The AP test is one shot. It's do or die baby :p</p>
<p>murasaki- your teachers don't curve your tests at all?? That is brutal.</p>
<p>i take APUS, last quarter, 2 kids (proudly, including myself) out of ~25 got an A in the class. About 45% of the kids who take the AP test from my school get a 5. But, i go to a very competitive public school in NY</p>
<p>My teachers don't curve tests . . . except in my APUSH, class, and I often set those. :)</p>
<p>But still, although AP tests are do-or-die, one chance, consider the amount of problems that can be missed. I'd never imagine getting the same percentage correct on a test and getting an A as I could on an AP exam for a 5. A good amount of studying would make a lot of AP exams in my classes horrendously easy.</p>
<p>5 on the exam is definitely easier. At my school it's hard to get into the class in the first place and they sort of discourage taking APs (taking more than 3 APs per jr/sr year is considered crazy at my school). I know several people who've gotten Bs or Cs in AP classes and easily got 5s on the exam</p>
<p>The class is SOOOOOOO MUCH easier than the test at our school. People in my history class got 30-40% on every single test and still got an A average. In English Literature, though that class is actually really hard, if you have a B average, which I always do with trying my hardest, our teacher will let you do some extra credit in some form or another.</p>
<p>Almost everyone in our Lit class will pass the exam, but only a few of us have a shot at a 5. And in AP USH, barely anyone will pass because of aforementioned test scores, and a general laziness and acceptance of getting a 1 or a 2. I bet maybe 5 out of 30 in our class will pass. I actually cared and really hope I got a 5 on both, but it took weeks of hardcore studying and emotional stress to do good yesterday and the day before.</p>
<p>I thought it was easier to get an A in my classes. I mean, my teacher curved the grades but we had some rigorous testing going on so by the time the AP tests came around, we weren't too shell-shocked after seeing the questions.</p>
<p>I think I did really well in my CS test - maybe a 4 or a 5. And I pulled a barely-A in that class.</p>
<p>English Lang was just an easy class. So easy that I didn't feel prepared for the AP test. :(</p>