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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on the school where you are teaching AP. Is it a school where everyone is encouraged to take this AP class or only the top students take the AP test like AP Calculus AB or BC or AP Chemistry? If really all the seniors are taking this AP class then yes have a spread of grades.

However, if it is really made up of students who have always been in honors classes then as a parent I much prefer that almost all the students receive A's and B's regardless of the pass rate on the test.

There is a APUSH teacher at my son's school which is a school where only the top students are tracked into APUSH. They have always been top students yet the AP History teacher feels that an A is equivalent to a 5, a B a 4, and a c is a 3. So on most recent APUSH tests only around ten percent of students nationwide got a 5 so his reasoning is he only gives around 10 percent of students an A. I think this is ridiculous. All these students are going to college and no way if they took a freshman college US history class 90% of them are getting B's or lower. At least 50% would get A's.  [/quote]

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