4th Annual AP Report to the Nation Released

dsultemeier
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:38:29 +0000

I have observed the same thing with the girls. My daughter goes to an all-girls school and she is one of about five girls interested in physics, math and CS. They don’t have an AP physics class because not enough girls sign up. Despite her high interest and a lot of practice my D hasn’t scored very highly on the AMC test (around 80 last year) and her math SAT wasn’t that high (690) compared to a 770 for the reading part. My D persuaded her school to offer the AMC starting last year and 8 girls actually showed up to take the test. (I was surprised) The girls made each other “spirit bags” the day of the exam. On the other hand the school has quite a few girls signing up for AP Bio and Chemistry. My D is taking the AP Calculus BC test this May so we’ll see how that goes.