Why AP Exams and SAT Subject Tests?

nilkn
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:45:42 +0000

What is the point of College Board having both AP tests and SAT Subject Tests? Why not have a single set of exams used for the AP classes and college admissions? Furthermore, in my experience the AP exams tend to be more difficult than the SAT Subject Tests, and many of them include essays or free-response questions, so they seem to be better tests anyway. Is this just a clever scheme to get more money by making students pay for more tests?