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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, all kids should be encouraged to take an AP Class, but not pressured. Plenty are college-ready, enough, without AP.
No, the grading should not be dumbed-down. A likely 3 on the AP Exam is a "C" in the HS class. Not likely to even pass the Exam? No way should they be getting a C in the HS AP class.[/quote]

This is stupid. How you do on the exam is no indicative of how you do in the class. Those exams are a specific animal and the questions are often hard to understand (even for me reading the practice tests and I am an excellent test taker). There is not that correlation for a lot of kids. [/quote]

PP is too extreme, but still has the right idea.  Kids should not get an A in the class but fail the AP exam.  If they do that, it's not because 'the exams are a specific animal' with questions that 'are often hard to understand.'  It's also not because a kid is a bad test taker.  The kids only need around half of the multiple choice questions correct.  They only need to be able to write a mostly coherent essay that shows some knowledge of the subject.  An A grade in an AP class should only be for the kids who show mastery of the content.  Kids who have anything approaching mastery of the subject are not going to fail the exam.  [/quote]

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