Personal Reflection: The Case Against AP Testing (Class of '20 Opinion)

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Secondly, let’s talk about how they are limiting. With their goal of producing a curriculum that matches the introductory class that every college offers, the curriculum of AP courses are rigid, overflown, and superficial. Teachers find themselves not being able to tailor the course to how their high school schedule works, how their students learn, in short AP classes are the distinct opposite of intellectual curiosity.

Isn’t that kind of why they’re being used so widely in the first place, and why you’re able to get credit for doing AP Calculus BC, but you probably won’t for the Calculus 2 taught at your high school, with a curriculum tailored to the specific school? Because there’s a clearly stated curriculum that schools across the country have to follow in order to get credit, getting a 5 on the exam has value, for credit, and for the purpose of admissions (This is more about courses like Calculus and foreign language, not the “fluff” ones like Psychology or human geography).