2024 AP Exams - Results
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Anonymous
Why does it show that? My 9th grader took it and got a 2. Huge history buff, but clearly not ready for that level. By junior year was getting 4s and 5s. |
Anonymous
Freshman got a 5 in Calc BC. Apparently 45 kids got perfect scores. Make of that what you will. |
Anonymous
My 8th grader got a 5 in AP Calc. I guess that's not a college-level class either. |
Anonymous
That's pretty impressive. Only about 10% of all test takers get a 5 so well done your kid. |
Anonymous
that's fantastic. well done. |
Anonymous
Or shows what "college level classes" trulynare. Colleges have levels of classes, Lower and Upper. Each level can have 1-4 course sequences. US colleges (and tracks within .anors within one college) range widely in their level of rigor. Sometimes you just don't take a subject in high school, so you have to start in college. Computer Science, Environmental Science, World Language, Accounting, Archeology, Studio or Digital Art, Human Anatomy, etc, etc A Social Studies specialist might think AP Gov is "not a college level class" and struggle in calculus. A math kid might ace MV Calc and Linear Algebra but bomb AP Gov. |
Anonymous
If you want the school to see the 5, then you should also report the 4s. Fours are not bad scores. If you do not list 4s, the "common wisdom" is that schools will interpolate that the missing scores were worse. Your child will receive the "AP Scholar with Honor" award, which can be listed in the awards section if you are not comfortable listing each individual score. However, that award is granted to students receiving a average of at least 3.25 on all exams and 3 or higher on 4 exams. In your situation, the award underrepresents the performance. |
Anonymous
I think you're forgetting just how simple the intro level college classes are. College or community college level English 101 and History 101 are not rigorous courses with harsh grading. I would expect any bright high schooler who already knows how to write a 5 paragraph essay to be capable of passing very basic college courses. |
Anonymous
I view them as a check on my student’s high school curriculum quality. He attended a private high school that didn’t offer the tests so he had to take them at the local public. They did offer the AP classes but not the tests themselves. I think they stopped during the pandemic and haven’t brought them back yet for some reason. AP class enrollment was down last year so that might be why. Most of his AP classes were less than 15 students. Only US History was 20. |
Anonymous
You know that a 5 is not the same as a perfect score, right? |
Anonymous
Of course they’re not college classes. They are high school classes. |
Anonymous
"fewer" |
Anonymous
TIL perfect scores are tracked Here's a 2023 report. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap_perfect_scores_2013.pdf Apparently CB sense an email to perfect scores. To sum up the cutoffs: 3: 55-65% 4: 60-70% 5: 65-75% Perfect: 100% Where did you fall in the 70-99% range? shhh, it's a secret no one can know! Clown show. |
Anonymous
I don't think anyone cares about that. A 5 is the top score you can get in an AP and in many cases only 10% or fewer test takers are getting it. |
Anonymous
| oops 2013 report, not 2023 |