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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No shade on OP's child, but how do you get an A in AP classes and then get below a 3 on the actual exam?[/quote]
Grade inflation. My kid is the same.  But, also, they don't test well, and has learning disabilities that impact reading long text.[/quote]

My NT kid got a couple of 3s.  His SAT one and done was 1430.

Just like SATs, this board is skewed towards parents that report high scores.

Some ways you get 3s are:

1) Not much prep for exam
2) Course was fall semester, exam in May
3) Teacher's class is not pure AP compliant
4) Wide ability levels in the class, resulting in a curve

[b]Somebody has to get the 1s, 2s, and 3s.  [/b]

ETS has done an analysis that supposedly shows that even students who get a 1 or 2 have an advantage when taking the college class.[/quote]

Unless everyone is getting an A in class, the people getting 1s, 2s, and 3s should be the same people getting Bs and Cs in the class. Which isn't to say they shouldn't take the class -- there's value in being challenged, absolutely.[/quote]

I have a kid with an easy A in physics C who squeaked out a 4 on the AP exam with a huge self study effort. His teacher didn’t cover the AP curriculum, not even close.

Kid sailed through all other AP classes with As and no sweat 5s.

[b]So teachers who don’t follow the curriculum are definitely one explanation. [/b]
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New poster here.
I agree.   Similar thing happened with my kid in AP chem.   He was easily getting an A in class, but after taking the AP exam he said there was a LOT OF things that his teacher had not covered in class.   He ended up getting a 3 on the AP exam, and all his classmates that he talked to got a 2 or 3.
On all his other AP exams he got mostly 5s and a couple 4s.

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