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Lower than I would expect. I thought the average amount of students receiving 5’s was already ~15%, with fluctuation from year to year of course. And 15.9% accounts for any student ever having received a 3+ even if just once and he received 1’s on the rest of his exams.</p>
<p>^access doesn’t mean what you think it means…</p>
<p>what does access mean then?</p>
<p>“had access to an AP experience that resulted in a score of 3 or higher”</p>
<p>It means that of all people in the country who are high school students graduating this year (well 2009), 15.9% of them got a 3 or higher on an AP.</p>
<p>That’s what this meant, 15% of students who took APs might have got 5s (I don’t have a data) but not everyone took an AP. 15% of less than 1 is less than 15% of population. (That’s statistically inaccurate for percentages for various reasons, but you get my point).</p>
<p>That’s sort of what the access thing is getting at, but the definition here is “had the chance to get”</p>
<p>I think you thought it read
15.9 percent of the public school graduating class of 2009 [who] had access to an AP experience [received] a score of 3 or higher. </p>
<p>That statement is false as you pointed out, but the original isn’t.</p>
<p>It also states that 18.1% of U.S. public high school graduates took AP courses and scored a 3 or higher on an AP Exam during high school. So I think the 15.9% must be referring to only 2009 while the 18.1% includes all years of high school.</p>