AP Scores
 

So, who has gotten their AP scores back? I got mine right before I left for IRI on Thursday. I got a 5 on Chemistry, and a 4 on both of the English tests. I got a 5 on Calc BC, too, but that was last year. So, what did everyone else get?

grrr, i never took any AP whatevers when I was a senior/junior in high school; are those hard? i hear about them sometimes but i dont even know exactly what AP things are.

The difficulty is highly variable depending on the student, the teacher, the preparation, and the subject.
This year, I got a 5 in Calc BC, a 5 in Biology, and a 4 in French Language.

WHOOHOO! i got a 5 in APCS =D

::does happy dance::

I took the easy way out..... I paid an additional $300 for each AP class, and received credits from a local college, that will transfer to almost all schools. :)

calculus-4
bio-5
(and my bio teacher thought that i never listened to him)

Physics B - 5
CS AB - 5
US - 5

Go me :).

AP Comp Sci: 5
AP Phys B: 5
AP US: 5
AP Eng (Lang/Comp): 4

Never did like English....

Out of curiosity, how much emphasis do other people's schools place on AP or that equivalent level - IBN or something - classes?I've heard some people's schools offer maybe one or two total. My school offers almost every AP except the foreign language ones, so a lot of people end up taking two, three AP classes a year - next year, I'm taking 4 AP classes and 6 (:ahh: ) tests (some classes like Physics C have two tests - Mechanics and Electromagnetism). Do everyone else's schools have that "You gotta take advanced classes or else you're going to fail at life" atmosphere?

Ap computer = 4

English Lang and Bio-3

I hated Biology with a passion.

Cory

At my school its more...
If you dont pass...dont show your face here again...
Especially with our IB tests/diplomas

Then again, I feel IB is more important than my Aps anyway...
Latin SL - 5
Theatre SL - 4 (retaking as HL though)

I think my Latin teacher is going to think I'm crazy...
On the Ap I actually studied for and applied myself, I made a 2 (AP Latin Lit Horace/Catulllus)...but the AP that I took a nap during the free responce instead of actually answering any questions...I made a 3 (AP Latin Vergil)

Calculus AB - 4 (which amazes me b/c I had to teach myself the course)

Stop Describing my own school and future! I can't take it!
Our school actually sets up their courses so in order to take no AP classes you would basically have to a) drop 'honors' and go 'academic' or b) not come to school senior year. Lets take math for example (advanced honors track)
(middle school) 7th-Algebra I
(middle school) 8th-Geometry
(high school) 9th-Algebra II/Trig (taught together)
(high school) 10th-Pre Calc.
(high school) 11th-AP Calc. (AB exam)
(high school) 12th-AP Calc. II (BC exam) OR AP Stat. (AB exam)
Not the class to fall asleep in.
By the way, next year (10th for me) I'm taking AP Bio. Those of you that have taken this course, either share your thoughts on it here, or PM me! I've heard it's one of the more difficult courses and seconded only by AP Chem. (If my grammer or spllin is somewat of thats fine becaus i'm not plannin on takin AP English in any form or capacity what-so-ever...But knowing my school I'll end up forced into it anyways:rolleyes: )

Anyways... On the AP Bio tests that I got my hands on (old ones), I scored a high 4 or a low 5. (I really need that 5 or my parents will *kill* me. They both majored in Bio at UD with the blue hens, and my dad has a Phd.)

Just my 2.1 cents.

I thought bio was easier than physics. The only thing, though, is you gotta do a lot of work throughout the year. It's a lot of reading, but not so much concept-wise. Where Physics you need to know the concepts and the math really well, Bio was more if you read the book, you could do it. Problem is it's a lot of reading.

Bio's reading is not only plentiful, but boring and rather dense at times as well. However, it's fortunate that most of the time, you won't need to know the level of detail the textbook goes into. As long as you understand the broader concepts and are good at reasoning, you should be able to do well based on class lectures and homework alone. Well, that and labs.
At our school, at least, it's the class that students have to worry about, not the test itself.

That advanced/honors track for math doesn't look too bad. I don't see why they'd consider AP Statistics to be harder than Calculus, though.

Honors/AP has taken a very unfortunate toll on our school. It's a public school without many remedial classes, so the segregation between the students enrolled in "advanced" classes and those who aren't has become a bit vicious.

Thanks guys, its good to know what's in store for me. Did I tell you that I happen to have a *dislike* of Algebra? Unfortunately the remedial(A)/honors(H)(AP)(GT) divide also exists in our school. It even exists with the admin. If your drop out of Honors, it's very near to impossible and in some cases you're not allowed to go back up to honors. As for physics, well I'm prepared for that to be hard... The teacher (Mr. Haine) is one of our coaches. That can be good and bad:D .

Thanks Again.

Wow, so it wasn't just my high school that had the great divide? I wouldn't call them remedial classes but there was a fine distinction between kids in AP/Honors classes and those who weren't. We used to call it the AP bubble since the people in your AP classes you saw in all your classes and people who weren't in the bubble you forgot went to your school unless you were in sports, student gov, or something like that. My high school was a pretty decent size (2500) but the AP bubble definitely made it feel smaller. It's really weird now that I'm at UCLA and the only segregation there is is between North (humanities/social sciences) & South (math/science) campuses.

Now, I know that FIRST is blessed to have many top students but I know there's many who aren't all in AP classes or scoring as high as these stellar marks we've been seeing. Just to prevent people from totally freaking out, don't worry too much! As a person who's been through the whole college application process, I got into a handful of nice schools and my AP scores (and SATs actually) weren't that spectacular. To compensate, I did work really hard to have a high GPA, had a good personal statement, and was in a lot of clubs and stuff. So that's just my bit to people who might have been intimidated by seeing all these 4's and 5's. Keep up the good work all though.

Well I didn't take any AP exams, but one of my best friends took the AP US History exam and got a 3...she's the only one besides the guy that's #2 in our class that's gotten a passing score...that I know of. The #1 ranked girl in my class only got a 1. I heard that majority didn't do good b/c the material is suppose to be taught over a 2 yr period and it was all crammed into 1 yr....but idk how true that is.

I always pick smart friends!:)

~Jessica~

AP US History is a 3-semester course at our school, and our pass rate was decent.

Oh yes...and if it helps, the pass rate for AP Biology was 95%.

yeah, i wondered about that...
the teacher got us all freaked out, and then it turned out to be absurdly easy.
except for that question about the chii square.
where the #$@! was a chii square in the bio book!

Ah yes...that one. They gave the formula as part of the problem, so all that was required was to plug in the values and solve. Not hard at all. Unfortunately, our school didn't offer any real statistics course last year, so the students who weren't very capable critical thinkers had some trouble with the unfamiliar formula.

The question that was considerably more troubling was the last one. Not because of difficulty, just because it was so...morbid.

BTW, if you use the english, it's spelled with one i. Chii is a persocom.

it resembled (for me anyways) the equation for sum of squares, but when i tried to plug the numbers in, the result didn't make much sense (i can't remember exactly what i got).
oh well, i earned my 5, and thats what counts.

Wow, US History is only taught for a year here but we've had a 100% pass rate for the past...8 or so years? Actually, people look at you kind of funny if you get a 3 as oppose to a 4 or 5. We had an awesome teacher though (he also has a 100% pass rate for AP Gov). He's the one who inspired me to be a poli sci major.

oh question. This amazing teacher, they cut back on the amount of AP classes he was allowed to teach because they wanted him to teach normal classes too. They've done this with several teachers that were the head of their departments and solely teaching AP classes. The school believes that these top teachers should be available to all, does this happen at other schools too?

Your school's lucky that it has enough talented students for it to make a difference. Our enrollment in AP classes is rather low; there are 6 in AP french, 3 in AP french lit, 17 in AP phys, and 20 in AP bio.
Or maybe we're just that elitist over here.:ahh:

Could be that you just have a small school.... in my school (9-12), I think its between 2000 and 2500 kids - more than 500 per grade. Compared to your 17 people in AP Physics, our AP Physics has 4 teachers teaching 5 classes of about 30 students each.

To put it into perspective, we have so many kids in the AP program, we have to close off one of the Cafeterias (we have 3) for two weeks during AP testing, so there's enough room for each test. As if that wasn't enough, for several tests this year (AP US is the only one I know if) we also had to close off the library for half the day.

Our school is around 1800, so I don't think we're that small. Though 3 cafeterias does sound very impressive.

We had 930 this past year, but I still saw someone new everyday...lol. They were all the underclassmen...they get on my nerves sometimes......:) 3 cafeterias is very impressive to me! hehe

~Jessica~