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Reply to "AP Seminar at McLean High - brutal grading"
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[quote=Anonymous]The main things I'd try to find out is whether the teacher tends to grade harder at the beginning of the year and raise the grades over the course of the year and also whether the disappointing grades are because your DC isn't following a specific set of rules designed to result in high AP test scores. AP courses can be great but a common complaint is that they are too geared to preparing students for the end-of-year AP exams. So I could imagine a scenario where a particular paper looks good to an English major but gets an average grade because it omits some component (for example, an introduction, a hypothesis, supporting evidence, and/or a conclusion). [/quote]
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