| My son was trying to decide whether to take the World History AP class next year so I "surveyed" some of my PTA friends about their childrens' experiences. Of the six moms I talked to three said their kids were doing poorly in the class this year and probably wouldn't sit for the AP test, one child got an A in the class a few years ago but a 1 on the test, 1 child now in college regretted not taking the exam since now he has to take a much harder world history class in college, and the other mom said her daughter did fine in the class and on the exam (she didn't tell me exact numbers). The thread running through the stories of children doing poorly was that they didn't like to read. My older daughter, a junior, attends a different all-girls school and she is one of only 4 girls in the entire school who are taking the BC Calculus exam. She is taking her first AP tests this May so I'm not sure how she will do. Also, I'm not sure on the ins and outs of this but the seniors in my daugher's calculus class said what's the point of taking the AP exam since I'll already have my college acceptances before the test date. Back on the kids taking the class but not the exam, I was under the impression that the scores aren't sent to colleges so can you just report good scores? If so it seems like they don't have anything to lose taking the AP exam. Sorry for all the questions but when I was in high school we didn't do AP or SAT II's for that matter. But that was back in the disco era. |