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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone on this thread have an actual high school student?! Many HS courses require a cumulative exam (IB, AP, PLTW).[/quote]

Yes, I'm poster 20:08.

I have one high school senior and one college student.  They both took AP courses and AP tests.  I think the AP tests provided the educational benefits described above.

It also enables an evaluation of the course.  If students from an AP class take an AP test and most of them score 5s, that class is viewed a success, because at least at the time the test was taken, the students had a good grasp of the course material.  If most of the students scored ones, I suspect the course would be analyzed and changed.

When MCPS students failed their finals, the county changed the grades and eventually just did away with finals.

https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-county-schools-adjusts-final-algebra-grade-after-more-than-80-percent-fail-exam-104667

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wtop.com/montgomery-county/2015/07/montgomery-county-final-exam-failures-continue/amp/

I think it's telling that the programs which are academically respected (IB, AP, PLTW, and most college classes) require finals.  That would seem to indicate there is academic merit in taking a cumulative final.  It seems like MCPS students would benefit from the same practice.

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