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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids are taking the AP tests privately, not the classes.  They are studying on their own.

As far as I understand it, the schools are only "approved" to proctor AP exams for classes they offer.  
I was looking into having my kid take AP World History and my kid's DC private does not offer the exam and neither does Jackson Reed (because they don't offer the AP world history class either). 
I would have to contact Walls or Banneker or MCPS.

For what it's worth, we decided against this as I got a review book and the content differences are pretty significant (what my kid has learned vs. what is on the exam).  [/quote]

Curious how there were different? [/quote]

For example, my one kid learned an absolute ton of detail about China but really nothing about the Aztecs/Incas. They both got an incredible understanding of the big principles (things like colonialism, revolution, industrialism, etc etc ) but would 
now have to go back and see (for the first time) a lot of specifics of the history.  It is very clear the teachers are not "teaching to the test" and just getting XYZ facts out about XYX cultures.  They are teaching big concepts.

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Th AP course are structured around big concepts. The study guide book tells you nothing about how different teachers approach the course in a classroom. The study guides are supplements, not the course.[/quote]

And the review books are not the text books used in the courses. For example, my DC noted that the college calculus text his roommate is using is the same one he had in AP Calc BC.[/quote]

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