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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In high school I took four AP classes (and one other AP exam based off a class that wasn't billed as AP but covered similar material). I didn't take any until my junior year (AP US History) and most of them I took as a senior. None of them were hard compared to college classes, but I went to a pretty non-descript public high school and then a much more prestigious university with a reputation for difficulty. It seemed like they were effectively the equivalent of a college class at an average or slightly below difficulty university.

That made sense to me. What happens now baffles me.[/quote]

+1. I think the AP test has stayed the same level of difficult.  Schools have gotten better teaching for the test.  And just as we expect more kids to attend college even it may not be a good fit, we expect more kids to take APs, even when it might not be a good fit.

Maybe my kid will be better prepared for college than I was.  But I took the hardest level classes at my HS, and my 14 year is even more stressed out than I was.  It seems like weird sour grapes or something to ask what the OP did - are APs easier because more kids take them.  Instead we should ask, why are we pushing them so hard on everyone.[/quote]

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