Do private schools have it easier than normal publics?

cobrat
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:48:50 +0000

" Its the luck of the draw on these exams" So then how do you explain the fact that the AP scores are pretty consistent from year to year at our school? If luck is making students score a 3 or a 5, you’d expect the year they ask about something the class didn’t cover well for scores to go way down. That doesn’t happen. I think the AP scores do provide a real measure of the quality of the AP program at a high school.



Also, even a score of 5 doesn’t necessarily mean the student has covered the material in the same breadth and depth of the equivalent course at some respectable/elite colleges. There’s a YMMV depending on the teacher quality and most importantly, the individual student him/herself. Folks with 5s have flunked or came to the academic brink in courses for which they were supposedly well-prepared for.