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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nonsense.  BASIS teaches no science past AP level and the highest score students can get on AP exam is a 5.  JR teaches all the AP STEM exams, just like BASIS, with multiple JR students scoring 5 on each of them annually.  The exams are:

AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C - Electricity and Magnetism, AP Physics C - Mechanics
AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC
AP Environmental Studies
AP Statistics
AP Computer Science A (AB no longer given)

Yes, BASIS teaches serious science younger than DCPS, which is neither here nor there for JR students who score high on AP STEM.  I note that J-R students have four AP exams cycles to take their APs, while BASIS students only have 3 per program rules.  That's how BASIS works, OP.[/quote]

Nice try but wrong.

1) Basis requires science capstones senior year after APs.

2) JR is a huge school--it is probably more than 12 times bigger than the Basis upper school.  Thus, there is no surprise that JR offer a lot of AP exams.  But that fact hardly means that JR is teaching at the same advanced level as Basis.

3) In fact, results at JR aren’t particularly impressive.  Last year, maybe a third of JR kids had taken an AP exam and only 63% were able to score at least a 3 on ONE exam.  In contrast, in order to graduate, Basis students must take at least 6 AP exams and obtain at least a 3 on one exam to graduate.  Plus, around 40% of Basis students are AP Scholars (getting a 3 or higher on at least THREE AP exams), a status that fewer than 10% of students attain.

In short, there is no comparison between JR and Basis on AP exams or curriculum.  In fact, a large percentage of JR graduates wouldn’t even meet the minimal requirements to graduate from Basis.[/quote]

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