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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is your fault.  You are raising her in a high pressure and competitive environment and it’s not healthy.  Why is she discussing AP exam scores with her friends?  Why is she devastated over a damned 3?  Is this really the way you want to raise her?  I guarantee you a few years from now she’s going to be super bitter and blame you.  [/quote]
dp.. please.  Kids pick up pressure from each other, not always the parents.

My kid is the exact same as OP's - 3 on APGov, A in the class.  DC said they studied a lot. I never pressured DC to get more than a 3. In fact, I told DC that if they fail it, it's not the end of the world. DC took another AP and got a 2.   DC cried over both scores because of how hard they studied but still got a bad score.

I comforted DC, and told them that it[b]'s possible that the way they studied wasn't really conducive to absorbing what they were reading.   I won't go into how they studied, but I told DC that this wasn't the way to do it, [/b] but DC wouldn't listen to me.

Also, IMO, grade inflation is not helping.  These kids think that because they got an A in the class that they know the material, but grade inflation means that their A may really be a B, and so on.  IMO, it makes them over confident, and I think that this is what happened to my DC.

Now DC knows after learning the lesson the hard way  - learn to study, and getting an A in the class means nothing.  This part I blame the schools.[/quote]

Not nice to tease like that. [/quote]

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