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Posted By: nicoledad AP College Board Testing - 05/12/17 04:46 PM
My daughter took her first AP test in Human Geography. I know today is the last day for all the AP testing. Have your kids said anything about them
Posted By: polarbear Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/13/17 01:47 AM
DS says they were "ok". That's about as descriptive as he ever gets about anything!

DS and I are both glad they're over smile For this year smile

polarbear
Posted By: nicoledad Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/13/17 03:31 AM
I guess on hers Twitter was a buzz because of some essay question that wasn't covered in any kids AP Geography class
Posted By: knute974 Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/13/17 07:17 PM
My daughter said the same thing. Multiple choice was pretty solid; on the written portion, most of the questions were "fine" but one of the essay questions seemed to be out of the blue.
Posted By: bluemagic Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/17/17 10:18 PM
My son is a senior he took AP CS (easy) AP Physics 1 (not bad) and SP Physics 2 (difficult). Seems it's useless for him to have taken Physics 2. But it's done.

Three more weeks of school and then he graduates. Only English & Government with stuff to do.
Posted By: Cookie Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/18/17 12:55 AM
My son took three this year and just has 8 days left of school! AP Stastistics was his easiest. The other two were harder.
Posted By: NotherBen Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/18/17 01:48 AM
DS had two APs this year, scheduled on the same day. So he opted for Bio on the given day: closer to the preps in class, less brain drain. He thinks he did okay. He'd also been working with a tutor on test-taking and overcame a lot of his test quirks. Music theory he took a week and a half after everyone else, so he was in a room with another student in the testing office. He said he had trouble with time management on this one.

Bluemagic, there is no AP Physics 2 class, is that right? But the test is still offered? (DS did the same last year, took AP Physics 1, but both tests)
Posted By: Cookie Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/18/17 03:07 PM
Originally Posted by NotherBen
Bluemagic, there is no AP Physics 2 class, is that right? But the test is still offered? (DS did the same last year, took AP Physics 1, but both tests)

Oh goodness gracious, don't give my son any ideas! He is taking AP physics next year and either 2 or 3 other APs (depends on the instructor for one if it is a certain teacher he will drop it). He doesn't need to know he can take two Physics tests.
Posted By: NotherBen Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/18/17 03:13 PM
Our school encourages the students to take both, because the curriculum supports it. I didn't know until DS told me the teacher had told them to sign up for both, and the school confirmed when I was signing him up for the tests!
Posted By: SFrog Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/23/17 09:42 PM
DD16 took 6 AP exams in all this year. I know, I know, 6 is too many... but you try telling her to take her foot off the accelerator.

Psych - was determined to be "not bad".
Calc AB - was worrisome in how easy it seemed. Anyone else's kiddos like this - the easier a "hard" exam feels, the more worried they get?
Physics I - also determined to be "not too bad".
Micro Econ - hated the class/hated the test.
Macro Econ - ditto.
Lit and Comp - she felt the essay question for the student selected work was tailor-made for one of the books she read. Now DD is a voracious reader, so the odds of her not having a book in the can for that question were low.

Best of luck,
--S.F.
Posted By: Old Dad Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/24/17 01:57 PM
I'd caution parents to check with the college of choice on what their conditions are for accepting AP classes for college credit. It's not automatic. With colleges facing budget problems more and more are limiting the amount and what credit they'll give for AP classes and raising the score they'll accept for the classes they do give credit for.
Posted By: indigo Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/24/17 02:24 PM
I would strongly caution against such threads, and the type of social media exam question discussion which at least one parent has alluded to. This cautionary statement is based on College Board's published exam day policies, and exam security (see excerpts below):
Remember, whether it is during breaks or after the exam, you must not communicate anything to anyone, including your classmates and your teachers, about the multiple choice questions that appeared on your AP Exam.
Discussing Exam Questions
Do not email, text, post, or in any other way circulate AP Exam information through any kind of social media, or your AP Exam score may be canceled and you could also be banned from taking future AP Exams.

Also, you may talk about the free-response questions from the regularly scheduled exam two days after the exam and only if your particular free-response questions have been posted to the College Board website.
Originally Posted by College Board - Exam Security
Discussing Exam Questions
The College Board will automatically cancel your exam score if you are discovered disclosing:

multiple-choice questions;
free-response questions from an alternate exam;
free-response questions from a regularly scheduled exam within two days of its administration; or
free-response questions that are not released on the College Board website two days after the regularly scheduled exam administration.

This means that something you may not have intended as a violation, like casually talking about a multiple-choice question with your friends...

You can only discuss free-response questions from a regularly scheduled exam after two days have passed, and if that particular free-response question was released on the College Board website.
The free-response questions which have been released by College Board are found on the AP subject's Exam Practice page, for example AP HUG Exam Practice page. Although hovering over the exam questions for any given year reveals the link, it is anticipated that individuals will sign in to their College Board accounts to view the material.
Posted By: nicoledad Re: AP College Board Testing - 05/10/18 03:36 PM
How's AP testing going so far?
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