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[quote=Anonymous]I teach until the last week with my non-AP classes. Those classes take a final exam, we teach up until the end.  In reality though, once early may hits I am missing 25% of even my non-AP classes each day thanks to testing schedules for SOLs, AP tests, IB exams, kids being pulled to do oral presentations in foreign language classes, etc.  It's all review once that starts, because it's not fair to teach new content when so many are out.  So by mid may I'm done with the curriculum, I try to hold their attention with 3-4 weeks of cumulative review, and then they take their final exam.

In AP though?  What is the point of a final?  A final is a cumulative test of everything learned all year--that's exactly what the AP test is.  Kids who opt out of the AP test owe me an alternative project the day of the AP test.  After that, we do fun(ish) stuff utilizing content we've already covered until seniors bail 3 weeks later.  I can't teach new stuff unless i am not going to assess it in any way, because again, too many are out.  My class is 95% seniors though, if it was a sophomore AP class I might handle it differently.[/quote]

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