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Arhowk
06-07-2015, 11:58
Its that time of the year again :P Share your AP scores below.

AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2 :confused: :confused:
wilsonmw04
06-07-2015, 15:39
Its that time of the year again :P Share your AP scores below.

AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2 :confused: :confused:

these shouldn't be accessible by a student until July 15th. How did you get them early?
z_beeblebrox
06-07-2015, 15:41
these shouldn't be accessible by a student until July 15th. How did you get them early?

http://www.apscore.org/schedule.html
wilsonmw04
06-07-2015, 15:45
http://www.apscore.org/schedule.html

interesting, on the teacher side it states students will get theirs on the 15th. Odd.

Edit: another odd thing. Depending on where you live, your teacher will get your scores before the student does. Another thing that College Board does that makes no sense.
Foster
06-07-2015, 16:20
AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2 :confused: :confused:


Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go!

interesting, on the teacher side it states students will get theirs on the 15th. Odd.

Edit: another odd thing. Depending on where you live, your teacher will get your scores before the student does. Another thing that College Board does that makes no sense.


It's called server meltdown. There are more students than teachers waiting to get the grades. So they stagger the releases across the states. The teacher load is much smaller so they can roll them out earlier. It keeps the College Board from buying more servers for test result times.

(Yea yea, AWS, Cloud services, mega clusters out of Raspberry PI, blah blah blah.... there is no way they are going to move anything out of their data centers. They are very, very paranoid about their data. )
wilsonmw04
06-07-2015, 17:16
Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go!
It's called server meltdown. There are more students than teachers waiting to get the grades. So they stagger the releases across the states. The teacher load is much smaller so they can roll them out earlier. It keeps the College Board from buying more servers for test result times.


But why not roll them out the same for each area? Teacher for region X, then students of region X. Teachers for Region Y, then Students of Region Y. They are all over the place right now. Seems random.
cgmv123
06-07-2015, 18:16
They are very, very paranoid about their data.

They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.
wilsonmw04
06-07-2015, 18:56
They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.

But they don't proofread very well. I had a slew of kids freaking out because they thought their scores would be voided for a mistake they didn't even cause.
Foster
06-07-2015, 19:27
They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.
They have a pretty impressive non disclosure form for job interviews.

But they don't proofread very well. I had a slew of kids freaking out because they thought their scores would be voided for a mistake they didn't even cause.

Well see, their Master Card/Visa system does automatic proofreading, so they have covered the most important part of their business model. :rolleyes:

I don't have an exact insight into how/when scores are released to teachers. If I was doing it, I'd send them 1-2 days before the students got them, but not any more than that since I want to make sure the students come here. I can't easily find a link for teachers so I can't do a full eval of release dates, etc.
Anupam Goli
07-07-2015, 11:50
I don't have an exact insight into how/when scores are released to teachers. If I was doing it, I'd send them 1-2 days before the students got them, but not any more than that since I want to make sure the students come here. I can't easily find a link for teachers so I can't do a full eval of release dates, etc.

They send the scores to colleges before anyone... one year I was able to get my scores through Georgia Tech sometime in late June, but this was back in 2011/2012. Things probably have changed since then.
Arhowk
07-07-2015, 12:41
Scores were released for ALL teachers on Monday (per my understanding) and will gradually be released to the students throughout the course of this week to ease the load of the collegeboard servers. Colleges typically receive scores in early June for placement and scheduling purposes. Some colleges are notorious for giving students their test scores early so they can get the scores and spam the students with random crap

Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go! l

I had to for seminar which is quite ironic. (Needed 2 passing AP scores plus passing Seminar and Research, that's a total of 6 passing scores before my senior year and now I'm ineligible to take research)
cadandcookies
07-07-2015, 14:24
They send the scores to colleges before anyone... one year I was able to get my scores through Georgia Tech sometime in late June, but this was back in 2011/2012. Things probably have changed since then.

Nah, I did the same last year at the UMN. It's a very nice thing if you're a senior and know to look out for it.
wilsonmw04
07-07-2015, 14:44
Scores were released for ALL teachers on Monday (per my understanding)

not true.
here are the release schedules
Teachers:
https://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ap/scores/online-score-reporting/access-schedule

Students:
https://apscore.collegeboard.org/scores
Foster
07-07-2015, 16:55
Thanks for posting that. But I'm done. I got overly invested in something that I don't really care about when I swung by to say congrats to Arhowk for doing so well on so many of the tests. (I think the term is "I got Delphied" )

I'm sure someone with more time and access to a Wolfram account will take the list and run it against common data bases to find the correct intersection of why they release them the way they do (Hey look, it's based on the IQ's of each states Lt. Governor!)

Arhowk, sorry to hear that you can't take Research your senior year. I'd like to suggest you see if there is a Networking class / sets of seminars in your area. No, not computer networking, but people networking. The ability to find and network with the right people in college will make those years go much better. Honing those skills at college will then serve you better across the next 40 years than any class you'll take.

Good luck!
thatprogrammer
08-07-2015, 19:16
AP US History: 5

Only took 1 this year, taking 3 next year.
Poseidon5817
10-07-2015, 07:28
AP Chemistry: 4
AP World History: 4
Certified Nerd
10-07-2015, 12:20
What do these scores mean? (I am home schooled, open enrolled in a high school for welding and taking PSEO, which means no AP classes)
Arhowk
10-07-2015, 13:53
What do these scores mean? (I am home schooled, open enrolled in a high school for welding and taking PSEO, which means no AP classes)

The scores range from 1-5, 3 is considered passing, 4 is "exceedingly proficient" in the subject area, and 5 is "exceptionally proficient" in the content area where 2 is "possibly proficient" and 1 is "not proficient".

The percent for each score averages to about 10% 5s, 20% 4s, 40% 3s, 20% 2s, and 10% 1s, although this varies greatly between individual exams.

Most colleges will accept a 3 for 4 or 8 credit hours depending on the course where some more prestigious colleges will only accept 4's and 5's if at all (sometimes they feel the ap course does not cover the content as the school would like it to)