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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I don’t understand why your kid can’t get As in the AP classes.  Why doesn’t he just work harder and study more.  Learning to work hard is probably more important for future life success than anything else. If he gets into a top college how do you think he will do if he can’t handle the rigor of AP classes?[/quote]

There are some teachers at some schools that are really hard graders. My son is in an APUSH class. His teacher believes that you need to be doing work in class equivalent to scoring a 5 on the AP test to get an A. On the last APUSH test nationwide only 10% of students got an A. Therefore he only gives 10% of the class A’s. The class average on the first test was a 68%. My son studied for hours and got a 79%. A spoke with another parent and her daughter had a 6 hour study group on Sunday befor the test. She also got a 79%. There are no corrections or re-takes.

The AP physics teacher is also a hard grader. the average grade in the last test was an F. One student who is brilliant got an A. The next highest grade was 65.

Sometimes you can work harder and your odds of getting an A are still going to be low.  [/quote]

Bad teachers? My kid as a private and scored a 5 on every AP exam last spring —even the ones with single digit pass rates.  He managed to get As in the class for final grade- but not every quarter. They have a high number of 4s and 5s—basically the entire class. [/quote]

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