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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm also curious about this -- my DD's high school requires APs but as far as I can tell, they teach to the test.  Like, "you need to have a couple of little anecdotes" to get from a 4 to a 5 on APUSH or something (I'm sure I'm getting the terminology wrong).  We used to carpool with a bunch of kids taking AP Spanish and I used to try to chat with them in Spanish.  They couldn't formulate a response... ever.

She'll be in a similar situation as your child -- testing out of the prereq, but not getting credit for the class (if I correctly interpreted what you said).  She's hoping to get a 5 on Macro/Micro this month so she can take a higher level econ class, but it really won't buy her anything.  And we wonder if her current econ class will have prepared her for econ at a higher level -- I'll be kind of surprised if it does.[/quote] Intermediate econ is nice in that it doesn't really require introductory econ beyond the very basics. Think of how calc-based physics doesn't require algebra based/conceptual physics.

For example, MIT's introductory microeconomics course is at the level of many intermediate courses despite not having any econ prerequisites[/quote]

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