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Reply to "Whatever happened to: "APs are a scam""
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[quote=Anonymous]In the absence of a functional Department of Education requiring a national exam at the end of high school, like France and Germany and the UK do, or national college entrance exams, like China and Korea and Japan do... ... we're stuck with private companies selling their own exams. The AP exams, the SAT and the ACT are all legitimate, extensively-researched, and rigorous tests of knowledge. They're not scams. Colleges need to compare students to each other to evaluate their academic readiness, and GPAs can't serve that purpose since they're not calculated in the same way, using the same instructional quality or metrics, in different school systems. It's too bad someone, the school or the end consumer, needs to pay for these private exams. But take it up with the government, and the voters. [/quote]
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