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<p>This is just not true. Similar to the SAT percentiles, there are no AP score percentile “targets”. The fraction of test takers scoring an 800 on the SATs varies solely according to the quality of the test takers. The CB does not decide that, say, 0.5% of SAT students will get an 800, or even that 50% will score more than 500. In the same way, the percentage of AP students getting a “5” or any other score is not fixed to a particular number. For certain exams, the AP score percentiles have changed significantly in the last decade (you can see this on apcentral by looking at score distributions for a given test over the last ten years).</p>
<p>It is likely that the percentiles will stay the same, but only because from one year to the next, the AP student population doesn’t change that much.</p>