I am drawing off our experience with my PS student, not the one at BS. Her HS runs on a block schedule. Reg and H classes are a semester, AP’s are three terms. Therefore, they have a bit over a month from class completion until the exams. That gap most certainly affects retention and performance. Historically, our students perform much lower on AP exams than those at the nearby schools with similar demographics (and SAT scores) but don’t have a block schedule. I couldn’t imagine kids taking it with many more months between…unless that is one really good $300 refresher!
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