Last year almost the entire sophomore class signed up for AP Euro. We all walked in the first day scared out of our minds because it was our first AP class. The teacher spent this day telling us all about her accomplishments as an AP teacher at the local public schools and how she could promise us all 5s if we studied and did well in her class.
She also said something that proved to be true. She gave us the meaning of sophomore
"A sophomore is a wise fool, and y'all best remember that"
Now I realize why she gave us that quote. Being the naive sophomores we were all fools to believe her. Not a single person passed that exam. The highest score in the entire class was a 2 the average was probably somewhere around 1.2-1.3.
This teacher is a very unique woman. She reminds me of John McCain/Eric Cartman every single time I see her. Now understand I'm not calling her stupid or anything like that she knows history, but she never taught any of it to us.
(I actually drew this picture while she was lecturing)
The first quarter of her class was spent informing us of how difficult the class was going to be, how the AP exam works, and about her invisible wall. Yes you read that correctly "Her invisible wall". Like a mime she looks for an invisible wall to lean on.. how this works, I have no clue.
When it actually came to teaching she would start by teaching a little bit of history... then go into her life story. Most of her stories revolve around her friend, lover, and soul mate, Garth. Garth is a dog and I know more about him than any breathing human being would ever want to.
One day I shit you not she said this,
"Now as colonies we had two options, and it's what's known as you better know em. We could do something, or we could not do something." ...not kidding
That's how she would teach when she was composed.
Now when she got upset, and just about any random squeak from the dry erase board could do it, she would become furious. This was when the image in my mind would switch from John McCain to Eric Cartman. It was normally sparked from questions like "How are we going to pass the exam if we are only 1/4th of the way through the material" or "Why do I HAVE to take notes if your talking about football"
Here is a better view of her face when pissed.
Now obviously we started to catch on that we weren't learning enough when it got to be about February and we were only 40 pages into our 2000 page text book. She continued to motivate us that we were prepared but then exam day came along.
On the college board AP euro exam there are 80 multiple choice questions. It was amazing how half our class was done in 10-15 minutes. We must have been really smart because that's like 7 seconds per question, oh wait, we all made 1s.
After the multiple choice came the DBQ. Understand that during an AP exam there are all these strict rules like if you talk or make any noise everyone's exam score gets canceled (Although that probably would have been a better excuse for everyone failing.). I think our proctor was somewhat sympathetic because as soon as we looked at our DBQ there were multiple whispers of "Oh hell" and "What the fuck.." heard across the room along with a couple of moans.
But we got the test over with. Sad thing was some people actually thought that they did well on it. I feel bad for them at least when I got my big packet in the mail from Collegeboard.com I knew what it was going to say before I opened it.
All exam stuff aside, it wasn't that bad. Actually it was, but we all got averages of 101-109 in the class so who cares.
Now you know why I received a 1 on my AP European History exam.
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