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APUSH Exam
Last school year I took AP US History at my high school. My final grade was an 87, a B. However, on my AP exam I made a 2. Our teacher told us a 3 was passing but some colleges (like technical colleges) will accept a 2 and the class will count as an elective credit.
I don't really mind if it doesn't count as a credit because it wasn't a history credit anyways, but do you think I'll go through any trouble with colleges that see I only made a 2? I don't want to hurt my chances of getting into a good college. I've never failed a big exam like this. I'm an A/B student and I have at least a 4.0. I'm about to be a senior.
Will my GPA make up for the bad exam grade? I really hope so, because I'm seriously depressed about this. I can't believe my grade was so low, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm college material after all.
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dont worry, it wont hurt you. you just most likely wont get the college credit for it. you should still get the weighted gpa though.
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Don't worry about it. Most schools would like to see you try hard and fail than not try at all.. I am guessing you can still get a 1 on the exam so you deff could have done worse. As long as you passed it with flying colors like you said you did in school and your gpa is find there is nothing to worry about. if you didn't pass it with a 3 that means you just don't get the college credit for it for some school.. nothing else.
it shouldn't hurt your chances at all at getting into a school because they really only consider how you did in that class throughout the whole year.. they may never look at the AP exam because its not mandatory to take the AP exam along with the AP class (well atleast at most school)
as long as you pull off a 3.0 (if you unweight all of your honors and AP and make them all out of a 4.0) and get atleast a 1000 on your SATs you can basically get into any half decent school (besides like harvard and all of them)
trust me I have a 3.75 I got a 24 on my ACT 1090 on my SAT and right now I can get into all of the schools I want to look at.
trust me you are fine!
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hey don't worry about it!! AP exams are to measure how much you learned but it is soo hard to pass the exams!! my teacher told me that because so many more students are taking ap exams that it is even harder to make a passing grade because of the bell curve which means the majority of students will get 2s and few will get 4s and 5s! it doesn't affect your grade at all and colleges don't even ask for your score unless you want college credit for that class. But also because so many people are taking ap exams most colleges are only giving credit to students who get a 4 or 5 on the history exam. all i can say is to just let it go because it doesn't affect your grade and just try to study harder next year! good luck!
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