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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if the tests are any harder, but my school made a meal of the AP classes. History was the first one our school offered and that teacher built the class up into something with very exacting expectations. Lots of reading, writing, extra work, and extra Saturday classes in the winter and spring prior to the AP test. (In fairness to him, all of his students got 4s and 5s. At our 30 year reunion, the kid in our class who got a 3 got a mention.)

By the time I was a junior and senior in high school, they had a few more AP offerings at my school. I felt like those classes took their cue from the history teacher. But, ultimately, it was a mixed bag. The government test and class were easy. Calculus was hard because it was calculus. I bailed on taking the Computer Science AP test because I didn't have any confidence at all that I was learning what I needed to know.

My kid graduated high school last year and I was astounded by how many AP tests he signed up for. I want to say it was maybe 9 or 10. He got a couple of twos and threes, but ultimately, he ended up with something like 48 credits and satisfied most of his Gen Eds in college. Anyway, he didn't seem to struggle as much with the class load as I did. Could be he was smarter, but I think it's also a matter of schools just being better at administering the classes efficiently in a way that lets the kids succeed on the tests without being crushed by the class load. [/quote]

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