[Erin Rapacki]

I live in a town where they find it a tradition to have the seniors graduate in the last week of June. So, when we take the AP exams in may, we have yet to have a whole month of instruction and we miss out on a few things that they put on those exams. Also, no teachers of mine really prepared us for the test, they just said 'take it if you want to.' So, I got my scores back the other day, and I'd say that all my AP course teachers would be disappointed if most of them didn't retire after last year. I got a 1 in Calculas, which I expected because I slept and doodled during the exam; and a 2 in English, which was disappointing because I worked hard and thought I had a 3. That's why I hate how written exams are graded, they are graded subjectively by people who sit in a room all day and read teenager's horrible handwriting. It is something special if you can get a 5 on an exam, even a 4, so feel good about yourself. Also, my AP exams were pointless, AP Calc and AP Phys I wanted to repeat in college, AP English I may still get out of because I recieved college credit at UCONN already and I can just transfer the credit to my new school. So that's my spoof on AP exams... only take them if you need to.

ByE

erin