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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean they're self-studying?

Overall this isn't very common, with exceptions. It's more common in MCPS STEM magnets, because they don't teach to AP standards. They have their own, high-caliber courses. Since college admissions is an arms race, students there also try to self-study for APs and take AP exams by themselves.

My kid is in a regular MCPS high school, and her AP Physics C teacher is abysmal. We hired a tutor and she's getting through the first part, Mechanics, and doing OK. But the second AP exam associated with that course, Electricity and Magnetism, will essentially be taken as self-study, because at the rate the teacher's going, he's not going to get to the second part of the course in any meaningful way before the exams in May.

For languages APs, bilingual or bicultural kids sometimes take the AP exams without the corresponding MCPS course, but they may take prep courses on their own, or self-study, or have weekend language classes. Mine have the latter. Every Saturday they go to their native language school. They take a different language during the week in MCPS.[/quote]

Sorry to hijack---I thought Mechanics was a year long class and E&M was also a year long class.  Are they each only a semester?[/quote]

Yes, it’s the way they were originally designed. But some schools, especially the ones without a strong physics pathway, only teach the Mechanics part of the course and stretch it out over a whole year, without teaching E&M. [/quote]

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