Check this:
I NEVER was in AP English for a single day last year, and my regular teacher was a bad ass coach. I went to go ask the AP teacher for help (get packets and such), but she refused. She said it would "take too long" and BS like that. She went on to say that I'd probably get a 1, and how she had students "who would love to buy that test off of you". Man, what a bastard.
Well, I didn't study jack, went in to see the first form of any kind of AP English exam I've ever seen, and did what I gotta do.
English AP: 3
That means college credit for the state university I want to go to (Texas A&M).
I also took the US History AP with the same amount of enthusiasm (but I took the class).
US History AP: 3
Damn, I shouldn't have been such a jack ass when taking that test. My dumb cocky self thought I'd get a 5 since I made easy A's in the class, but the essays really screwed me over.