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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@21:47 Did your 3 kids want to do all that every single day? I got stressed reading it. [/quote]

Of course not. They are kids.  Often they will do the minimum school work that they can get away with.  During DL,  their video gaming goes on till midnight. If only the video games could be APs!!

When a  student takes an AP course in school they are working for two kinds of scores - the grade in the class (GPA) and the  AP exam score.  Usually, AP teachers will give them some kind of daily homework, quiz, test etc (and nowadays they are telling them to also use the online AP college Board videos.)  Theoretically taking the AP class automatically preps them for the tests in May. Mostly my kids were lucky to get good AP teachers but sometimes they have got not that great AP teachers and then they had to rely on some other resources - either I taught them or I hired tutors for them.

1/2 hour of daily homework per AP subject is sort of standard for many kids. It is smart of parents and students to have an idea what the time committment is when they sign up for APs, and then adjust other activities accordingly.

As parents we were quite uninformed during my eldest kid's HS years and so we were always  scrambling to do things at the last minute. We learned a lot of lessons with DC1 and then we were able to be smarter about timelines etc with the younger kids, so there is now relatively little stress.  
This is the thing. I know what needs to be done, and I was the type of student to do it. Straight A's in HS, multiple degrees, loved the idea of challenging myself. My HS DC, OTOH, doesn't study much, does the bare minimum, frequently doesn't hand stuff in on time, doesn't care about grades, and refuses to do any standardized test prep.

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