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<li><p>I don’t know why. They should have announced this earlier, but I guess the best time would be after the AP Score Reports are released. </p></li>
<li><p>There would be a slight decrease in the percentages of 5’s, but it should not be significant though. </p></li>
<li><p>I believe that College Board is trying to make the AP exams more comparable to the tests at colleges and universities, where there is no penalty for a wrong answer. However, this is a horrible reason in my perspective.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t think so. The new policy, I believe, was decided by the AP Committee.</p></li>
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