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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grade on the AP curve. In my subject, a 70-ish percent gets a 5 on the exam. Therefore, I curve a 70 to be a 90 on assessments and let the trivial classwork assignments bring it up to a solid A. I haven’t had any complaints from parents (and I’m at a complaining-parents heavy school)

At the end of the day, my exam scores aren’t great because mine isn’t a class that only top tier kids take. (Think bio or environmental science vs chem and physics, or stats vs calculus). The seniors tend not to care and a ton of them end up skipping the exam or not studying at all and finish with 2s when they really could have had 3s with a smidge of effort. That’s on them though. The sophomores and juniors nearly always get 4s and 5s.[/quote]

This is the correct answer. Basing tests on the last couple year's released questions (with appropriate edits of course) and applying their scoring criteria with a scaled curve is definitely the most accurate representation. That's what we did for our IB school. I'm surprised it's not the norm everywhere.[/quote]

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