2020 AP results are out

[Anonymous]

DS could see his scores on UMD website- they are already on his college transcript!$!$

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, rising seniors will have to wait until next week.

[Anonymous]

CB sends to your school and college first. Always.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps should have added UMD Students to your title?

[Anonymous]

Our university too - not just UMD...we can't see score, just that our student received credit.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

This was the bell curve for APUSH

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

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Kids don't have to take the AP exams. That's optional. And the point of taking AP classes themselves is not simply to obtain college credit but to have a more challenging and rigorous curriculum, especially in public high schools.

At my kid's well-regarded public high school, the "honors" English 11 curriculum requires reading four books a year. That's one book a quarter. And as I recall one of those books was Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild (not exactly War and Peace). Even if my kid had gotten a 1 or a 2 on the AP Lit or AP Lang test itself, it still would have been better to have taken the AP English over the honors English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This year was weird. No one knew how to prepare, and teachers didn't get much training on the scoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't have to take the AP exams. That's optional. And the point of taking AP classes themselves is not simply to obtain college credit but to have a more challenging and rigorous curriculum, especially in public high schools.

At my kid's well-regarded public high school, the "honors" English 11 curriculum requires reading four books a year. That's one book a quarter. And as I recall one of those books was Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild (not exactly War and Peace). Even if my kid had gotten a 1 or a 2 on the AP Lit or AP Lang test itself, it still would have been better to have taken the AP English over the honors English.

Sadly, I don't think my DD's AP Lit class read even 4 novels. They mostly read short stories. Oh well, I'll invite her to Book Club when she's a young adult.