Grading AP Exams: The System Works.A letter to the editor is presented about high school teacher Daniel Doyle's time as an Advanced Placement World History exam reader at Colorado State University in a previous issue.Wiesner-HanksAPMerry
Students with scores of four or higher for both AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics mayreceive creditfor Econ 101. Students may also receive credit for the course using scores from other international standardized exams. Roughly half of the students who intend to major or minor i...
Weight influences GPA calculation. If you offer AP/Honors courses that are graded on the same scale as standard courses (4.0, for example), then give standard courses a weight of 1 and AP/Honors an appropriate bump. For example, students might get a .5 bump for AP courses and a .3 fo...
One thing my AP chemistry teacher did, just like the AP tests did, was collect data on all her students over the years. She picked random questions from a list for all our tests and knew what an average student got on each of those questions, so she could scale the test grades accordi...