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<p>Dear Pizza delivery person: Congratulations on answering a question that was not asked. I’m looking inside the numbers, not outside. Some people can do it. Some can’t. In this case it appears more people are failing, yet more people are passing. I suspect based on the numbers involved that 1.3 million failures are inflated for some unknown reason. At this point, I suspect that both students & teachers are gaming the system, hoping to get lucky to boost admission & administration stats, but if they crap out then no harm, no foul since submitting the test is optional. If so then overall AP test results are meaningless and will remain so until the student is required to submit scores. </p>
<p>BTW AP Stats is not considered higher education by my standards, however, for you I will assume it is.</p>