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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids didn't take one of his AP exams senior year.  He had a B in the class and didn't feel he'd do well and I said sure, skip it.  [/quote]

That makes sense senior year.  [b]If you don't feel you've learned the material,[/b] you wouldn't take the AP credit in college (if needed for your major), you'd retake the course.

But if it's a Gen ed type course, by May you know where you are going, so if they'd take the AP credit take the test and you might get a 4/5 or whatever is needed for credit. 
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Its not just that, classes like AP Physics and AP Chinese Language & Culture are two of the absolute hardest AP exams with low pass rates. You could scrape an A in those classes and still struggle in the exams[/quote]

AP Chinese Language & Culture has LITERALLY one of the highest pass rates of all AP exams, FFS, over 50% score a 5 on the AP test. The reason is that most students speak the language as their primary language at home, but your comment needed to be blocked into next week for being so blatantly incorrect.[/quote]

What is not incorrect is that it is a fiercely difficult AP exam. If mostly native Chinese students are taking it, that's a reflection on their abilities, not the abilities of the general US populace.[/quote]

I responded to the low pass rate comment - very clearly. There was nothing incorrect in my response. Thanks, though.[/quote]

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