<p>I believe APUSH is easily the hardest AP out there. I think the reason so many students take it is because they think, "How hard can history be?" And if they have a teacher like mine, the actual course isn't difficult, but the DBQs and tests sure are.</p>
<p>Wow. More Hispanics take APs than Asians. I guess this suprised me because I live in an area that is predominately asian.</p>
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they should call this the 5th annual report on minorities. Any one else hate that they analyze the scores by race and not a meaningful category like income bracket?
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<p>Did you read the report?
"Because the number of low-income students in the
total graduating class is not available, we are unable to
report on equity and excellence gaps, as defined above, for
low-income students."</p>
<p>If they had the info, im sure they would publish it.</p>
<p>..."is it safe to infer that APUSH is the "hardest" AP?"</p>
<p>Even aside from the huge variations in how many students take each test and the students self selection, "difficulty" is just too subjective to be assessed across subjects.
That is, I think we can measure the difficulty of different tests of the same subject (Calculus BC is "harder" than Calculus AB")-- but it is impossible to say that History is harder or easier than Chemistry, or that Statistics is harder/easier than Economics. Too much depends on the individual student's interest level, exposure to related material and natural talent (a student may have a great deal of natural math talent, but not so much writing talent or vice versa).</p>
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they should call this the 5th annual report on minorities. Any one else hate that they analyze the scores by race and not a meaningful category like income bracket?
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<p>I agree. They should just call it Report on Minorities..</p>
<p>Income, sex, etc would be informative.</p>
<p>I'd just like to point out that Hereford High (in MD) earned the top spot on CB's AP report, I guess bc we have the highest pass rate in MD, and that's where I go to school!</p>
<p>I'd like to point out that San Ysidro High School (in San Diego, VERY close to the border) got honorary mentions for having the most African-Americans and Hispanics pass the AP Spanish literature test O_O... Anyone else see anything else unfair about this?</p>
<p>I think AP US History could be the first AP test most people take. At some schools it's the only test you can take as a sophomore. Taking the test as a sophomore rather than a junior or senior makes a big difference especially on the essays. The AP Euro for example I think is harder - it covers more material but kids usually take it a year later.</p>
<p>Could Hispanics be taking AP Spanish? I think I read somewhere that they're encouraged to take it.</p>
<p>Wikipedia says 80% of those who take AP Spanish are native speakers. ~ and it apparently comes from an AP report</p>
<p>“Approximately one-fifth of those who took the AP Exam in May 2008 were either non-native speakers or had little to no regular contact with the language.”</p>
<p>They should sort it by something useful, like
- Income brackets
- Education of parents
This nation is so race-preoccupied it isn’t funny.</p>