I am 100% agree. In my opinion, the whole idea that one exam that can pull info from anywhere in the course (and you can only hope that your teacher covered it sufficiently) determine your knowledge and work of the whole year is insane. This was specifically a nightmare with COVID AP exams. Nobody knew for sure either format or what will be there. Those COVID AP exams destroyed the hard work of many kids in 2020 and 2021 with bad advice from teachers (like you do not need to complete everything, or write on paper and then upload.) After that experience, I banned AP exams in my house. (We have 3 kids close in age.)
I suggested some of my friends consider for their kids DE instead of AP. All who did were very grateful and regretted that they did not know about that option earlier. We have a very respectable CC in our area.
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