Failed all my AP Exams, what do I do?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:45:15 +0000

Groundwork2022:

I would wait until the college asks for them before sending those scores.

Getting A grades in the classes with low to middling AP exam scores would indicate either grade inflation at your school, or a possible disparity between the AP curriculum and what your teachers are teaching. The latter could be fine from a learning standpoint: perhaps you covered the topic more broadly and didn’t go in depth enough for the AP exam, or covered the topic more deeply and didn’t hit all the topics covered on the AP exam

However, a probably more common interpretation is that the AP course teaches less material in less depth less effectively than the AP syllabus specifies. While a few elite high schools do not follow the AP syllabus (and do not use the AP designation) for some of their advanced level courses for the reason mentioned above, a high school that labels the course as AP should be covering the AP syllabus (more material and/or more depth is fine if it is not at the expense of missing some depth or material in other parts of the course).