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[quote=Anonymous]I want to explore the value of AP tests, other posters have stated they don't count for much in the long run.  I know my daughter took a battery of AP tests in her last 2 years of private high school in DC.  Most interesting to me was the confidence she gained from mastery of the material, which gave her the ability to talk knowledgeably in conversations with adults.  For example, american politics.  She acquired detailed knowledge of, for example, strategies and motivations and thread that weave through american history in a class that was unabashedly AP test prep.

So I cannot dismiss the value of AP tests, in fact I wish I had received that grounding in subjects like history, biology, physics and a foreign language.   The language AP requires recitals, essays, translations and so on - this is not rote memorization but real mastery.

If the argument is they can wait until junior or senior year of HS, I would take issue with that as well.  If a student can build their knowledge base gradually through mastering AP subjects over five years then junior and senior year don't have to be quite so hellish.[/quote]

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