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<p>Exam - Proportion Scoring a 5</p>

<p>Alphabetically:
Art History - .133433
Biology - .187073
Calculus AB - .200939
Calculus BC - .397146
Chemistry - .161852
Computer Science A - .184689
Computer Science AB - .269809
Economics Macro - .126574
Economics Micro - .13536
English Lang & Composition - .087391
English Lit & Composition - .092463
Environmental Science - .087668
European History - .112384
French: Language - .123012
French: Literature - .251769
German: Language - .20439
Government Politics Comp. - .156827
Government Politics U.S. - .06241
Human Geography - .167485
Latin: Literature - .134806
Latin: Vergil - .177674
Music Theory - .194093
Physics B - .110171
Physics C: Elec. & Magnet. - .272874
Physics C: Mechanics - .257648
Psychology - .22446
Spanish Language - .29382
Spanish Literature - .096812
Statistics - .125371
Studio Art: 2-D Design - .07598
Studio Art: 3-D Design - .101022
Studio Art: Drawing - .111229
US History - .107666
World History - .108711</p>

<p>Descending Order:

  1. Calculus BC - .397146
  2. Spanish Language - .29382
  3. Physics C: Elec. & Magnet. - .272874
  4. Computer Science AB - .269809
  5. Physics C: Mechanics - .257648
  6. French: Literature - .251769
  7. Psychology - .22446
  8. German: Language - .20439
  9. Calculus AB - .200939
  10. Music Theory - .194093
  11. Biology - .187073
  12. Computer Science A - .184689
  13. Latin: Vergil - .177674
  14. Human Geography - .167485
  15. Chemistry - .161852
  16. Government Politics Comp. - .156827
  17. Economics Micro - .13536
  18. Latin: Literature - .134806
  19. Art History - .133433
  20. Economics Macro - .126574
  21. Statistics - .125371
  22. French: Language - .123012
  23. European History - .112384
  24. Studio Art: Drawing - .111229
  25. Physics B - .110171
  26. World History - .108711
  27. US History - .107666
  28. Studio Art: 3-D Design - .101022
  29. Spanish Literature - .096812
  30. English Lit & Composition - .092463
  31. Environmental Science - .087668
  32. English Lang & Composition - .087391
  33. Studio Art: 2-D Design - .07598
  34. Government Politics U.S. - .06241</p>

<p>Average = .162794
Median = .135083</p>

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<p>I think the fail rate on Enviro is so high because many of the people who take it self-study. Enviro is one of the few AP courses not offered at my school, and I’ve never heard anybody ask a question about their enviro class here on CC. That means the material isn’t necessarily harder (many think it is quite easy, in fact), but the level of preparation just isn’t there.</p>

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<p>I don’t know, Hamster. I see what you’re saying, but … at my school, AP Env Sci was offered for the first time in a few years. I don’t know what the scores were like in the past, but in my class, some of the [relative] “slackers” took the exam. </p>

<p>… What I mean to say is that Env Sci is supposedly the easy science - kind of an alternative to AP Bio - and there are a lot of slackers in the class who just take the AP in hopes to get exempt from the final. </p>

<p>I think that most people who take it self-study should be able to do fine. I don’t know how hard people generally work on self-study APs, but with the quality of my Env Sci class [movies every day, basically, with a first-year AP teacher], I felt that I basically self-studied it. If people who self-study generally work harder (I don’t know if this is true?), the fail rate should not be affected.</p>