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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP exam scores come out long after the school year and have ZERO affect on the student's grade or GPA (I think that's what you are asking)[/quote]

Actually that is incorrect.  It's school/teacher dependent.  For my kid, every single AP course gave an end of year grade bump if they did well on the actual AP test.  So my kid's B in Calc BC first semester would have officially become an A on their transcript, but since it was senior year, their transcript had already been sent to the university before AP scores came in and the teacher could change it.  But for anything pre-senior year, it would definately change on their actual transcript.  
Most teachers gave a full grade bump for a 4 or 5 on the AP test (or at least 1/2 a grade bump for a 4 for some teachers).  Thought is if your kid gets a 5 on the AP test that means they just earned an B+/A- or better in a college course so they should get a grade bump if their grade was lower.    I tend to agree with it.  In college, my kid has had two calculus teachers do something similar.  They have 3 midterms.  The final covers the entire semester.  If you do better on the Midterm X(1 2 or 3) material on the final than you did for that midterm, the final grade replaces the midterm grade (but not the reverse, your midterm grade cannot go lower).  Thought process is that math builds on itself and if the student ultimately learned the material at A (or whatever grade level) then they should get that grade for the course if it's better than 5 weeks earlier when they took the midterm.  My kid loves it.   I think it is a great approach for most stem courses---the goal is to ultimately learn the material, so if you do that by the final you should not be penalized for a bad midterm grade.  [/quote]

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