What AP exams are worth taking?

abhim89
Sat, 12 May 2007 16:46:05 +0000

thanks valecollegorian! you’ve been VERY thorough and complete, more so than any of the current students i haved talked to.

few more questions:

do they expect that we complete the tests with near perfection (90+% correct) in order to get credit? or is there a curve of some type (for example, only the top 20% scorers or something)? also percentage-wise, approx how many incoming frosh can pass the test w/ just a high school AP background?

a current student told me that besides all the information in Campbell, the biology 121 placement test includes a few difficult genetics problems that are not in the text book. how do we prepare for those?

also, will skipping those classes necessarily hurt our chances for success in upper level courses. i’m going to be doing bioengineering (not premed), which requires a solid knowledge of bio, chem and physics. i was under the impression that college courses go into greater depth, and that i would be missing that depth by placing out of classes… any thoughts?