<p>2) Students whose high school course doesn’t cover the proper material. This happens less often now, I think, with the AP Audit.</p>
<p>I went to a large (400+) AP workshop a few years ago, and I’ll tell you that the quality of your average APCS teacher is much less than say the average AP LIT, or AP CALC teacher.</p>
<p>When I was in that room, it was scary the kinds of questions I was hearing. i.e. “How do I write a loop from 10 to 1?”, “How do you make a method that adds two numbers?” In another workshop I went to, the AP CS presenter angrily said at the start “THIS IS NOT A COURSE ON JAVA, GO TO A COMMUNITY COLLEGE!”</p>
<p>When I attended the AP CALC once, there were no questions like “How do I find the derivative of f(x) = x?”</p>
<p>And i don’t think the AP Audit gives parents and students any comfort. It’s not like the College board comes in person and observes the teacher every day. I know many of the teachers in the AP workshop simply copy a syllabus and distributes to each other to submit.</p>