Grading at Walls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’m PP and that data is wrong unless I’m misreading it. More than 39 kids in DCPS passed the BC exam, and way more than 50 kids took AP Lang.

The data for BC clearly looks wrong (for 2022-2023). Looking at 2021-2022, the pass rates are about 72% for BC, which is not that far off from MCPS schools. The AP Lang data is clearly off. DCPS can't even get this right?

NP, and I agree, a lot of that data looks like it’s off by a line. I would guess BC is the 99 tests with 74 passing, similar pass rate to the 21-22 data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’m PP and that data is wrong unless I’m misreading it. More than 39 kids in DCPS passed the BC exam, and way more than 50 kids took AP Lang.

The data for BC clearly looks wrong (for 2022-2023). Looking at 2021-2022, the pass rates are about 72% for BC, which is not that far off from MCPS schools. The AP Lang data is clearly off. DCPS can't even get this right?

No they cannot. They make their good data worse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’m PP and that data is wrong unless I’m misreading it. More than 39 kids in DCPS passed the BC exam, and way more than 50 kids took AP Lang.

The data for BC clearly looks wrong (for 2022-2023). Looking at 2021-2022, the pass rates are about 72% for BC, which is not that far off from MCPS schools. The AP Lang data is clearly off. DCPS can't even get this right?

No they cannot. They make their good data worse!

What an embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

NP and that’s really impressive. It is notoriously hard to earn a 5 on that exam (usually less than 10% of kids).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

NP and that’s really impressive. It is notoriously hard to earn a 5 on that exam (usually less than 10% of kids).

Aw, thanks. Said kid got all 5's on APs, but this was the one they were most proud of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

NP and that’s really impressive. It is notoriously hard to earn a 5 on that exam (usually less than 10% of kids).

Aw, thanks. Said kid got all 5's on APs, but this was the one they were most proud of.

Thanks?

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain what AP’s students usually take as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Walls?

[Anonymous]

Freshmen don't usually take APs, unless they're really advanced in math or a language.

Sophomores all take AP World History.

Juniors all (I think) take AP US History and AP English Language. They can also take one of a few AP science classes, BC Calculus (if that's where they are in the sequence; Walls may also offer AB Calc--I'm not sure). My kid also took AP Seminar.

Seniors can take AP English Literature and any AP courses in other areas that they choose and have taken prerequisites for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

NP and that’s really impressive. It is notoriously hard to earn a 5 on that exam (usually less than 10% of kids).

Aw, thanks. Said kid got all 5's on APs, but this was the one they were most proud of.

Thanks?

lol

Parents living vicariously through their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what AP’s students usually take as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Walls?

Freshmen- generally none, maybe a language depending on middle school transcript

Sophomores- all take AP World. Some take ap language, ap art history, ap calculus or statistics depending on their math sequence

Juniors- all take AP Language. Can take AP US History, AP Physics 1 (or another science), AP African American Studies, AP language, AP art history. Many take AP Calculus (AB or BC). Some take AP Statistics. Some take AP Seminar.

Seniors- can take AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Stat, various AP sciences, AP Human Geo, AP Research, AP Psych, AP African American Studies, AP language.

[Anonymous]

PP sorry I meant all Juniors take AP Language and Composition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP sorry I meant all Juniors take AP Language and Composition

Walls only requires 2 APs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP sorry I meant all Juniors take AP Language and Composition

Walls only requires 2 APs?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AP physics 1 was abysmal this year—lots of kids with As in the class but 1s on the test. I think the teacher only taught 1/2 the units…

Whoa, that's awful! Which school? My SWW kid got a 5 on that test this year.

Did many in the class also get 5s? AP scores tend to be based more on the kid (and the work they do prepping for the test) vs a teacher/class unless you have a teacher that is very motivated by how well their kids perform on the test (which doesn’t seem like many).

Honestly…I don’t understand why teachers don’t spend the last 2-4 weeks prior to the test, doing test prep.