Advanced Placement classes failing students

[Beliavsky]

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@ucbalumnus

The issue is that many of the newer AP courses/tests are “AP lite” courses/tests, which, as you say, are not truly college-pace courses (e.g. taking a year to cover what is normally a one semester college course), or not even covering material at a level that colleges tend to give subject credit for (e.g. AP human geography).

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<p>[U&lt;/a&gt; Mass Amherst](<a href=“AP Credit Policy Search - AP Students | College Board”>AP Credit Policy Search - AP Students | College Board), the state flagship of Massachusetts, gives credit for Human Geography, as does [url=<a href=“AP Credit Policy Search - AP Students | College Board”>AP Credit Policy Search - AP Students | College Board]UC</a> Berkeley<a href=“but%20only%203%20credits,%20compared%20to%205%20for%20some%20other%20AP%20exams”>/url</a>.</p>

<p>It would be interesting to see what fraction of “good schools” give credit for various AP exams.</p>