<p>And that, tobeducated, is precisely why we had my kid take an AP exam for a class she had not taken, even though I think the idea of AP exams that teenagers could prepare themselves for is preposterous on its face.</p>
<p>If an AP exam is intended to demonstrate that a serious high-school student has mastered the material he or she would learn in a college-level class, it should not be possible for a teenager with a couple of test-prep books and a lot of Mountain Dew to pass as many of them as people do.</p>
<p>I don’t actually know how much consideration my alma mater gives when students have passed more than a dozen AP exams. I hope it isn’t much.</p>