2020 AP results are out

[Anonymous]

They will be released to Virginia on Friday. Earliest release to students is Wednesday.

[Anonymous]

There's a VPN students can use to get their scores on Wednesday no matter what state they're in. It basically routes them through an IP address in the correct time zone:

earlyscores.com

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s private HS only allows AP courses in students have a sold A in a previous honors course. My son has only gotten one A in an honors course (they are tons of work) so he is allowed to take one AP course. Previous high performance is a good indicator of future success.

Not always. My kid never got an A in math for reason unrelated to aptitude, and then matured and got an A in BC Calc and a 5 on the test. At your school, he wouldn't have been allowed to even take it.

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Anonymous wrote:This was the bell curve for APUSH

5: 11.8%
4: 19.2%
3: 26.6%
2: 20.4%
1: 21%

So 2/3 of the test takers will likely never receive credit for their tests (my kid’s “mediocre” college only gives credit for 4s and 5s). Thanks college board and the public school system!

That’s why my kid did DE courses. All the credit counted.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s private HS only allows AP courses in students have a sold A in a previous honors course. My son has only gotten one A in an honors course (they are tons of work) so he is allowed to take one AP course. Previous high performance is a good indicator of future success.

Not always. My kid never got an A in math for reason unrelated to aptitude, and then matured and got an A in BC Calc and a 5 on the test. At your school, he wouldn't have been allowed to even take it.

The point is your kid had the aptitude for it. He wouldn’t have done that well without it.

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Are they out for AP Principles of Computer Science? They had to do a project instead of an exam.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps should have added UMD Students to your title?

I am sorry I assumed that the College board would have sent to all universities simultaneously. I didn’t think UMD would get special treatment

Not every school has them posted before they are given to the students..

NP. True but they are pushed to all colleges at once. Like the SAT scores, each college retrieves them on their own timeline and pushes them to student's profiles on their own schedule.

I do t get this. Colleges receive the AP scores of all students to? Even the ones who didn’t apply there? My daughter is a Freshman and took an AP exam. Are you telling me that colleges have her score?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. Colleges receive the AP scores of all students to? Even the ones who didn’t apply there? My daughter is a Freshman and took an AP exam. Are you telling me that colleges have her score?

No. Colleges receive AP scores only from students that already ordered the free score report to be sent to them. New freshmen, who know what college they are attending, typically use the free score report to have their AP scores automatically sent to their college.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was the bell curve for APUSH

5: 11.8%
4: 19.2%
3: 26.6%
2: 20.4%
1: 21%

So 2/3 of the test takers will likely never receive credit for their tests (my kid’s “mediocre” college only gives credit for 4s and 5s). Thanks college board and the public school system!

That’s why my kid did DE courses. All the credit counted.

My kids college will not give credit for a class that a studentry got his credit for...be sure to look in to this when applying..

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you think 2/3 deserve college credit for high school work? Not everyone is exceptional at all things.

I don’t. But aside from signaling to colleges, getting college credit is literally the whole point of taking the test. Most school systems don’t pay for the tests, so kids are paying $100+ on tests they never should’ve taken in the first place. My kid took a couple practice tests to understand the scoring. They put “A” for every multiple choice question-THAT got a 1.

Not true. We knew it would help our kid when they got to college. Kid is not skipping courses in their major. Kid has gotten 4.0s every semester in a stem field at a large state u and says high school with all the ap classes was harder.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you think 2/3 deserve college credit for high school work? Not everyone is exceptional at all things.

I don’t. But aside from signaling to colleges, getting college credit is literally the whole point of taking the test. Most school systems don’t pay for the tests, so kids are paying $100+ on tests they never should’ve taken in the first place. My kid took a couple practice tests to understand the scoring. They put “A” for every multiple choice question-THAT got a 1.

Not true. We knew it would help our kid when they got to college. Kid is not skipping courses in their major. Kid has gotten 4.0s every semester in a stem field at a large state u and says high school with all the ap classes was harder.

Reading is fundamental. I said getting credit (for people not looking to signal to top schools on common app) is the core reason why people take the test. Not necessarily the class.

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My DC was able to see scores today. One lower than expected (could’ve used the last few weeks of prep) but two were higher than expected (and the ones focused on the most). Lower score on first test, I also think it took a bit to adjust to the new format.

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Anonymous wrote:Are they out for AP Principles of Computer Science? They had to do a project instead of an exam.

Yes. They are out.

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Anonymous wrote:Have all students received their scores? My child hasn’t mentioned getting his.

West Coast released today. Go to early scores.com. He can access them there using a VPN.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you think 2/3 deserve college credit for high school work? Not everyone is exceptional at all things.

I don’t. But aside from signaling to colleges, getting college credit is literally the whole point of taking the test. Most school systems don’t pay for the tests, so kids are paying $100+ on tests they never should’ve taken in the first place. My kid took a couple practice tests to understand the scoring. They put “A” for every multiple choice question-THAT got a 1.

Not true. We knew it would help our kid when they got to college. Kid is not skipping courses in their major. Kid has gotten 4.0s every semester in a stem field at a large state u and says high school with all the ap classes was harder.

Reading is fundamental. I said getting credit (for people not looking to signal to top schools on common app) is the core reason why people take the test. Not necessarily the class.

Maybe but my kid knew his chosen college didn’t give credit but still took the test. It was a challenge for him. He wanted to see how he did.

Also his HS read about 8-9 books in AP Lit this year.