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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think many people do not remember how finals used to be.  They were written by the county to be easily passable.  They were usually the easiest test given.  At least a week or two were spent prepping for them...often with a study guide that was very very similar to the test.  There was no school for a week in order to give them and it was a transportation problem to get there and back or sit in the cafeteria for most of the day.

Given that AP exams are widely taken, I think the end of quarter thing is ok.  [/quote]

AP exams aren’t widely taken across MCPS high schools. Maybe at the W schools but there are many high schools within MCPS where only a minority of kids take AP classes and their exams. [/quote]

Kids who plan to go to college take AP classes. For kids who don't plan to go to college, what is the point of taking finals to prepare you for college?[/quote]

Lol the most [b]competitive[/b] kids take AP classes to get into [b]competitive[/b] but there are plenty of kids who don’t and go on to attend colleges like McDaniel, Salisbury University, Hood College, Bowie State, etc.

Not everyone in MCPS is looking to or will end up in a top-tier university.[/quote]

MCPS at-a-glance reports list number of graduates who took AP or IB tests. Take a look at it some time. You might be surprised.[/quote]

Here’s Richard Montgomery, which has higher than average AP/IB uptake due to it being a magnet school:

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/791d9e3ecf514dffa7e5f8b8cffd2a27/5451_23_rmhs-profile.pdf

About 41% of its students took an AP exam. Again, that’s with RM likely being on the higher end of the spectrum because it’s a magnet school. So within any MCPS high school, the percentage of kids taking an AP class and exam is somewhere between 20-45%. Which means the majority of MCPS kids still don’t take AP classes, like I said originally.[/quote]

and compare that to the rate of kids going to college...I think it is pretty similar [/quote]

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