Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
Does your kid’s top DC private count anything other than major assessments in the grade? If quizzes, homework, participation, classwork, etc. boost up your child’s grade, then that is wild.
The only things factored into the grade are tests and quizzes. The kids very routinely get Bs and Cs in the science and math AP classes and then 5's on the AP exam.
If I had to do this again I would not.
We're keeping the third kid in public.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
Does your kid’s top DC private count anything other than major assessments in the grade? If quizzes, homework, participation, classwork, etc. boost up your child’s grade, then that is wild.
Can you give an example of the kind of questions your son/son's class would struggle with which he/they didn't see in honors Algebra 2?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://i.redd.it/lt3g7mqpdopb1.png
I highly doubt poor grades are in any way due to the rigor or depth of the material, but instead likely poor teaching and the growing pains of using a new curriculum for the first time
According to this it's just a repeat of Alg 2 but that is not what my son is seeing in his class. He has the same teacher in AP Precalc that he had for Algebra 2 (as do many of his classmates) and he did very well in Alg 2 (A) and is doing ok in AP Precalc (B). The teacher keeps having to curve every test because the kids keep doing so poorly and the school year just started.
Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
Anonymous wrote:\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!
This is wild. My kid goes to one of the top DC privates and a 70% stands as a C and there are many tests with a 70% average. Kids routinely get a 5 on the AP exam and a B or B- in the class.
\Anonymous wrote:Curving tests in AP classes is standard. I teach one of the other AP math classes, and when I get together for PD with other AP teachers, we all talk about how we curve.
To pass most AP tests with a 3, you need around 50% and a 5 is somewhere around 60-70%. (Varies by test and by year, obv) Thus, most teachers turn a 50 to a C, and a 70 to an A. If the assessments are all made up of college board questions, curving tests is appropriate (not a sign of failure to teach or learn). The questions are hard!