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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For families with children who were in 5th grade last year, how will we get our scores? Our child is no longer in elementary so the principal can't just send scores home in his class folder. Also, getting his individual scores quickly is helpful because his middle school has AP math and ELA and those scores help us understand if he's ready for AP. Holding them for a month hinders the student. [/quote]

Your child is in 6th grade and you're wondering if your child is ready for AP classes?[/quote]

AP, Honors, Advanced whatever you want to call it. His middle school offers advanced math and ELA in 6th, so yeah, I want to know if his scores indicate if he should be considered. Geeze, PP, what's your problem? [/quote]  AP and honors are very different.  If you're child is in middle school he's taking honors classes, not AP.[/quote]

"AP" is the acronym for "advanced placement' which is a college-level course with a longer number of educational hours (students usually have a double-period class several times a week) and then take a standard exam in May which is administered on the same day nation-wide, and then graded by teachers of the subject in June of each year (my mother taught AP English and AP Journalism and went to Austin each year for a week in June to read exams, which are anonymous and sorted by school so readers do not inadvertently read exams of their own students). Students can attain college credit (depending on the college/university) or place out of freshman-level requirements to take more interesting electives in their place. At Georgetown I was able to place out of two required freshman courses in six topic areas and take more interesting upper-level electives - a total of 12 courses. My peers who went to state universities were able to get actual course credit and obtain their Bachelor's degree in three years.

Middle schools do not offer AP classes, unless your child is in a program for exceptionally gifted children - the kind that has kids entering university at age 14.

And I doubt a 4 or even a 5 on 5th grade PARCC is going to indicate much of anything, other than your DC mastered the boiled down curriculum of DCPS and relentless focus on testing.[/quote]

So, this poster knows what an AP class is, but that's about it.[/quote]

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