A lot of my friends from other schools do that- but my school seems to think it will hurt the ranking of the school, I guess because Newsweek or whomever penalizes schools for having a lot of kids who have lower AP scores they figure we'll get overwhelmed and make it very hard to get into one AP class, let alone two.
If you took it before they redid it to include calculators, the same score is considerably more impressive than after. There was a big jump in the scores on the high end when they made the change. I've actually been a proctor or whatever they call it to administer the test. Anybody else?
I made a 2 on my APUSH. I don't know anybody from my class that passed it. Made an extremely easy A ins US History in college though, so at least my failure boosted my GPA. Made a 3 on my Calculus without a calculator (My teacher said I should cancel my exam once she found out I took it without a calculator). Made a 4 on AP Human Geography, and my college gave me credit for Biology. No complaining there. :grin:
Really? Did you take the course? I had a really good teacher for it, he made it a real rigorous course but most people got 4s or 5s, not a single person below a 3- same with my AP Language teacher.
Our school was limited to 2 per year/semester as well. Though our school only offered US History, Human Geography, Biology, English, Calculus, & Statistics, and due to when the classes were scheduled, it was really hard to get into all of them. College English classes were much easier than Honors English classes in HS, so I'm glad I avoided English. You can also CLEP classes, and many colleges offer joint enrollment, which I did my senior year of HS.
I'll have to look into that- my school never told us about that. I'm curious, did your school have the limit because of rankings? I go to a public school- so I don't understand why they're so concerned- they don't recruit or anything like that. Even if they were, we just fell like 70 spots in the rankings anyway, so there doesn't seem to be a point to it.
Yep. I spent the entire class flirting, and not paying any attention (I figured I'd pass it no problem), so I do have to take blame for putting zero effort in, but the fact that almost nobody passed has to reflect negatively on the teacher (I think 1 or 2 people in her other class passed). Our other APUSH teacher had more students pass. My college professor for that class was amazing though. Really knew how to draw you in.
1290 with a terrible hangover. It was so long ago, I don't remember the individual scores but I took it long before the writing part was added. BTW- I have a hard time believing some of the scores listed on the 1600 scale(leaving the writing part out). I think a lot of people are bluffing or using their 2400 point scale score.
For those of us that haven't taken the 1600 SAT, we converted our 2400 score to 1600 scale... Actually. Its funny because both methods I used ends up netting me the same score: 1320. Scaling 2400 to 1600 scale = 1320. Simply subtracting the writing part = 1320.
Does it even matter? What good will it do someone who lies about getting a high score if they consistently show signs of being an idiot in D&D.
yeah I'm surprised people on here had a hard time with APUSH, for me it seemed like by far the easiest test. But then again I'm naturally inclined to English & history. I got 5s on APUSH, Govt, World History, and both englishes. Got a 4 on European History & Macroeconomics. 3s on Bio and Statistics.
