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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My college Freshmen did on every single one of his AP exams.

Younger brother, Junior in HS, is all 5s so far.

You can see the stats online:

https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/score-distributions

For my kids, their private HS has a really good AP profile exam score. They are required to take the AP exam or fail the class.  They have a very high number of 4-5s.[/quote]

Also, the numbers are deceiving. AP Environmental Science is one of the easiest AP courses, but has a low amount of '5s'---only 9%, whereas 45% of AP Cacl BC takers score 5. This has more with the TYPE of student taking the test than the test/subject matter itself.  Then with languages you have native speakers in the mix, etc.[/quote]

A more thoughtful take is that they are totally different subjects so there absolutely no value in comparing them. 
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Perhaps, but a more realistic take is that there are certain APs that are not known to be as rigorous and for students that do not meet the prerequs (which some schools require) to get in the higher level math, science, english, etc., they are the subjects more general ed and not honors/ap kids take.  There is nothing bad about analyzing data this way. I know people like to be all 'everyone gets a trophy, everyone is capable', but some kids are more intellectually capable.  No harm in saying that.  These other kids may be much more gifted in a variety of other things and ways---artistically, emotionally, socially, etc.[/quote]

Or maybe the kid is more interested in taking AP Environmental Science rather than taking a second year of Biology, Chemistry and Physics (you have to take the honors version before the AP version at my Dc’s school)…[/quote]

You missed the point.  Yes, some highly intelligent kids take AP Enviro sci.  But, the reason the pass rate is so low compared to much, much harder courses is because the MAJORITY of kids taking environmental science are looking for an easy class and the other AP courses are too tough. I know smart kids very interested in climate that take environmental science, but the vast majority of kids looking to fill their schedules with the most rigorous courses (not just taking an easy one to inflate the gpa with a 0.5 bump) don't have room for environmental science. Less intelligent kids taking the exam means low pass rate. Understand?[/quote]

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