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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are elite colleges using an A in BC Calc junior year and A in Linear Algebra senior year as the current gate-keeping mechanism? Grades in those courses certainly have a much higher ability ceiling than the SAT. [/quote]
grade inflation makes those grades almost meaningless.  I would imagine colleges look at the AP exam scores, as well as grades.

In MCPS, a student can turn in assignments late and get full credit; do retakes and exam corrections to get a higher grade.  I know some kids cheat on assignments and tests. Grades have almost become meaningless here.[/quote]

Same for FCPS, all of the above and at my kid's school (Madison) grades are dropped and replaced, classwork & homework don't count. Suddenly, everyone's grade went up a letter grade at end of year. Teachers let kids make cheat sheets to use during tests, and then kids are also just cheating. Another tab open while taking test on laptop. This could easily be shut down, but now that classwork and homework no longer count, I don't think anyone wants to police it, because the truth of what kids really learned may be too scary to handle.[/quote]

Wow. I'm a Madison grad, and it was not like this back in the day! I also have a kid in MCPS,  and there aren't any cheat sheets available to her and classmates in her program and I don’t see how cheating would even be an option in some of her classes. (And her peer group is comprised of do-gooder nerds, so I don't see that as a likely scenario there). Classwork and homework count. Late assignments are penalized unless pre-excused (not sure where the other poster's kid is). I like the retake model. My kid's chem teacher was a very hard grader and didn't do a lot of in-class teacher, so the retakes became kind of the trial/error needed to learn the content. Yeah, MCPS has grade inflation due to semester grading policy,  but I have found my kid's classes to be quite rigorous. I suppose much depends on school/program climate and individual teacher.[/quote]

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