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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With a kid taking AP tests next week competing for 5s with kids who had 2-3 more weeks on instruction, I understand the benefit of starting earlier. HOWEVER, we need to get out earlier, too. It’s infuriating that they keep shrinking summer. [/quote]

AP students represent a fraction of the student population, so I don’t think it makes sense to dictate the schedule according to their needs.

Plus, our start date moves up, but then they throw in an extra week of Christmas break and a bunch of teacher workdays, so by the time May rolls around they haven’t actually gotten any more instruction.

[b]There’s not a fixed number of 5s to be awarded, so your kid isn’t competing[/b].

And there’s nothing stopping your kid from picking up a prep book two (or even three!) weeks before school starts. [/quote]

You are wrong. The teacher and AP tutor both confirmed that there can only be so many 5s and it is curved if too many get a score that translates to a 5. [/quote]

Well then neither the teacher or the tutor must do AP stats, because they don't know the difference between norming a test and curving the test. AP tests are normed, or "pre-curved". That means they are given to actual college students and then graded in a way that makes them consistent with previous years and determines which raw scores translate to cutoffs for the 1-5 system. Once your student sits down to take the test, however, nothing that happens on anyone else's test will impact your student's score. Their raw score gets translated to the 1-5 grade based on the previous modeling. There's no situation where too many kids taking the test the same day get top scores, and as a result, your student gets locked out of getting a 5. [/quote]

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