<p>To answer the original question, my son had courses that followed the AP syllabus through joint classes arranged by our homeschooling group in seventh grade and eighth grade, but he didn’t take the matching tests, and in my mind they were his “honors” courses in those subjects (chemistry and biology). He was also in a calculus course not specifically designed for AP preparation but corresponding quite well to the calculus AB syllabus in eighth grade, and didn’t take that test either. Last year (ninth grade), he took an AP United States history course, an AP physics B course, and a continuation of the calculus course that included most of the “C” topics in the AP syllabus and a lot of linear algebra. He also had a political philosophy course not at all aligned with any AP syllabus, but taught at a first-year university level. He took the AP tests in </p>
<p>United States history </p>
<p>physics B </p>
<p>calculus BC </p>
<p>United States government </p>
<p>and </p>
<p>comparative government </p>
<p>and passed all five tests. He is slated this year to take </p>
<p>computer science AB </p>
<p>chemistry </p>
<p>statistics </p>
<p>and </p>
<p>physics C mechanics. He has a very flexible high school. </p>
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