<p>I am mostly responding to this assertion “A three versus a five does on one exam does not mean that student is more prepared for college but that they learned the specific information that was on the test that day.”</p>
<p>The AP syllabus is pretty well defined, to the point where my daughter used some of the exact same texts used in my high school decades ago in a different state. There are also released test questions. So I don’t think there’s any great mystery about what the kids are getting tested on, and I think the difference between a 3 and a 5 is meaningful. Obviously there are also skills one would hope the kids develop that won’t be measured by these tests.</p>
<p>I’d be delighted if the college board would make the SAT harder and stop making distinctions between students that are meaningless.</p>