<p>^ He doesn't have a lot of courses being taken.</p>
<p>I don't know about schoolsearching's county, but in mine (in NC) we are on a seven point scale, so only 93-100 is considered an A, giving him two B's, which may be what he is worried about.</p>
<p>Let me also take this moment to say that I hate the 7 point scale, and would have all A's were we on a 10 point scale. This would change more than one class, too. Not relevant, just whining. Also, block scheduling sucks.</p>
<p>Anyways, I think those two B's (assuming that is what they are) are fine. I mean, they're in AP courses, they're high B's, and this is still only first quarter. Best of luck!</p>
<p>That scheduling looks like it sucks....do you learn all the stuff by mid-year, and then take twice as many AP tests in may?</p>
<p>My school is normal, an hour a class 3/5 days of the week, and an extended class once a week. </p>
<p>And you still have A's; I don't think a .1 or something difference in your GPA will make that big of a difference.</p>
<p>Yes, my school uses the 7 point (93-100) scale. My actual reported GPA stayed at a 3.96 unweighted when i submitted the grades because they are only determined using semester grades, which are not yet availible. Because of large semester long projects and finals that are notorious for being far easier than the class itself, I am confident that I will have a low A (93-95) at the end of the semester.</p>
<p>But Yeh block scheduling makes it difficult. Only 4 courses are taken at a time and it doesnt leave a lot of room to configure your schedule appropriately. For example, some classes are only offered in one or two blocks and you run into conflicts. I had to give up AP English for another year of foreign language because each class was only offered in one particular block in the second semester. Also, almost all APs are only offered second semester.</p>
<p>In addition, our school requires you take the honors version of a class as a prerequisite to the AP version. With only 4 classes at a time, this makes it hard to accumulate AP classes. For example, you must take Honors US History before you are allowed to take AP US, Honors Chemistry before AP Chem, etc.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>That's odd. We only have a regular US History or AP US History. I couldn't imagine taking an honors level of AP US History; that would just make the AP class boring!</p>
<p>exactly...our county pays the AP testing fee so i dont know if they want us to be super-prepared or what. But your right, i took honors US and got like a 97. Then i took AP US and learned nothing, used basically what i had learned in honors, read a few classic books and wrote papers on them, and got a 95. Its pointless.</p>
<p>My school system also pays for the AP exams (they even paid for my independent study AP exam last year!) Was the AP US course you took one year long or a semester? We used to have one year long block schedule AP courses, but now they have cut them down to a semester. So, as a junior last year, I took AP US History first semester and went an entire semester without doing any AP US History. Out of a class of 24 AP US History students, one got a 5 (me), one got a 4 (my best friend), and the rest of them got 1's. Ridiculous.</p>
<p>Your schools pay for your AP exams?!?!? No fair! I hate the way APs end up working for our school, due to black scheduling. I couldn't take AP Bio or AP Chem because of scheduling conflicts with classes I HAD to take, which really bugs me because I am a science person at heart. Also, APs first semester are HORRIBLE for taking AP exams. Again, most are only offered 2nd semester, but I got stuck with AP US History 1st semester last year (I got a B in the class, a tenth of a point from an A), but then I had 4 months between the end of the class and the exam, so apparently I forgot everything and I pulled a 3. Perhaps I could have studied more on my own, but I was was busy with 3 AP classes (out of 4 total) that semester.</p>
<p>Yes they pay for our exams and our AP classes are only one semester. Our AP US class actually did fairly well. Out of about 25 students i think we had 10 4/5 scores, 10 scores of 3, and then about 5 slackers that failed. The only AP that is a year long is calculus, which does AB 1st semester and BC second semester.</p>