B grade in AP Computer Science on MP1

[Anonymous]

My 9th grader kid has got a B on AP Computer Science on her first MP1. She is not a computers person, and did not much enjoy. She tanked on her few tests early in the quarter and despite so much efforts could only bring it up to 89.4. (89.5 would have been a A). This is her first ever B as far as I remember and as a new high school parent, I'm kind of concerned about how this will impact her overall high school GPA and college admission. my daughter tells me that her seniors said, that the semester grades only will be visible and not the quarter level grades, by which she thinks if she manages to bring it up to A bu end of the semester, she should be good. Is this right ?

[Anonymous]

I don't know but I can tell you I got straight As in HS and my brother did not - actually got bumped down to regular from honors at one point, and he is an Ivy League PhD and I am most definitely not.

[Anonymous]

oh no! How terrible! Did she miss a line of code in the 300 she had to write? Have you considered ADHD? Tutoring?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 9th grader kid has got a B on AP Computer Science on her first MP1. She is not a computers person, and did not much enjoy. She tanked on her few tests early in the quarter and despite so much efforts could only bring it up to 89.4. (89.5 would have been a A). This is her first ever B as far as I remember and as a new high school parent, I'm kind of concerned about how this will impact her overall high school GPA and college admission. my daughter tells me that her seniors said, that the semester grades only will be visible and not the quarter level grades, by which she thinks if she manages to bring it up to A bu end of the semester, she should be good. Is this right ?

Why don't you ask the school re: what grades are visible?

[Anonymous]

If she gets an A second quarter, it’ll necessarily average higher than 89.5 with her 89.4, so she’d have an A for semester and no college will ever see her quarter grade.

[Anonymous]

I thought grades were in the whole number. We don't see grades rounded to the tenth place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she gets an A second quarter, it’ll necessarily average higher than 89.5 with her 89.4, so she’d have an A for semester and no college will ever see her quarter grade.

+1 I hate the way MCPS has such wide bands for grades (my HS had +/- grades) so that all the college sees is A or B, but if she has gotten the hang of it and gets a 91/92 next MP, she'll have an A.

[Anonymous]

Not a big deal. The class is hard as there are no textbooks and the teaching is random. We had that happen last year with the end grade of a 89.4 or something like that. It sucked but nothing you can do. She tried. Maybe get her a tutor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought grades were in the whole number. We don't see grades rounded to the tenth place.

+1 How do you know she had an 89.4?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought grades were in the whole number. We don't see grades rounded to the tenth place.

+1 How do you know she had an 89.4?

ParentVue rounds but students see a more exact number in their system

[Anonymous]

JFC people are really lost their marbles. The kid got a B in her first AP class. She's clearly learning how to manage the class, material, and what the teacher wants all of which is the point.

But let's fret that this poor 9th grader has a 89. No wonder kids are so stressed and teachers have had enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 9th grader kid has got a B on AP Computer Science on her first MP1. She is not a computers person, and did not much enjoy. She tanked on her few tests early in the quarter and despite so much efforts could only bring it up to 89.4. (89.5 would have been a A). This is her first ever B as far as I remember and as a new high school parent, I'm kind of concerned about how this will impact her overall high school GPA and college admission. my daughter tells me that her seniors said, that the semester grades only will be visible and not the quarter level grades, by which she thinks if she manages to bring it up to A bu end of the semester, she should be good. Is this right ?

troll, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 9th grader kid has got a B on AP Computer Science on her first MP1. She is not a computers person, and did not much enjoy. She tanked on her few tests early in the quarter and despite so much efforts could only bring it up to 89.4. (89.5 would have been a A). This is her first ever B as far as I remember and as a new high school parent, I'm kind of concerned about how this will impact her overall high school GPA and college admission. my daughter tells me that her seniors said, that the semester grades only will be visible and not the quarter level grades, by which she thinks if she manages to bring it up to A bu end of the semester, she should be good. Is this right ?

troll, right?

If it is, next we'll hear that this was AP CS Java/A and not AP CSP, but that DD, despite not being a CS person and without completing prerequisites in MS, requested this for the benefit of her own college application profile, and that an amenable W admin granted that freshman-year placement exception

[Anonymous]

OP--as long as she gets 91 second semester she'll get a semester A. And the semester grade is the only one that shows up on the transcript. Colleges will never see the quarter grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP--as long as she gets 91 second semester she'll get a semester A. And the semester grade is the only one that shows up on the transcript. Colleges will never see the quarter grades.

I mean, second QUARTER.