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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I teach history and it's the same thing. Kids come into my 200 and occasionally 300 level classes their very first semester and think they're hotshots. They are often brutally unprepared for college level work, unaware that there will not be hand-holding, and completely unable to write coherently." Are you a professor or a lecturer? If you are a professor, you need to talk to your colleagues about raising the prerequisites, not taking AP/only taking 5s or creating a first semester College Level Work Seminar/Bootcamp.[/quote] NP. 5s don’t solve the problem, at least wrt history. The level/type of analysis that the AP rewards is pretty shallow/formulaic by college standards. Kids who get 5s have mastered and internalized that approach and expect to be rewarded for it. And, on one level, they will. Most will get Bs rather than Cs, but the definition of excellence in college is (or should be) really different.[/quote]
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