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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a student does take an AP exam and scores very poorly on it (1 or 2) would a college revoke admission?[/quote]

No[/quote]

Then what is the point?[/quote]

- shows rigor
- bumps up wtGPA
- get college credits (varies by school)

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A 1 on the AP exam shows rigor?  Anyone can get a 1 right?[/quote]

The final grade in the class is the important part and taking the effort to take the most rigorous offering. [/quote]

O.k. but the class grade is not standardized.  The AP exam shows how well the student has mastered the standardized AP material.

Students could get "As" in the class but "2s" on the exam.  Students could get "Bs" in the class but "5s" on the exams.[/quote]

There are myriad reasons why kids don't do well - testing fatigue, anxiety, poor test taker in general. The teacher could have just done a poor job of preparing the class.

The good news is that the AP score is just one data point, one piece of information. Grades are really more important.[/quote]

Grades are pretty meaningless if a kid with a brutally hard teacher is getting a B in class and a 5 on the exam and a student with an easy peasy "let's play Go Fish and eat pizza" teacher is rubber stamping As across the board, the students aren't motivated enough to self study and they all earn 1 or 2 scores on the exam.

Grades are subjective to at least some degree.  An excellent student can easily be made to look worse than a meh student...which is sort of the point of having a standardized measure in the first place.  Or at least that's what I thought was the reason.[/quote]

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