<p>Do your schools administer final exams even after taking the national AP exam for any course? Our school does since we don't receive the AP grades until July. Any comments or opinions?</p>
<p>yes unless we are exempted from finals.</p>
<p>Yes - sometimes I've received my final for the class a week before AP exam week. (mock exam)~</p>
<p>At my high school, unless your teacher is really hardcore, the national AP usually ends the class. The rest of the time is used for fun stuff and additional topics. However contrast this to moving at a faster pace than most schools. For example last yearin my APUSH we moved at a chapter every three days. It was insane the pay off we finished well before the AP and the last month was free time.</p>
<p>Hmm, well it depends. For my AP Bio class, our 'final' was the cat dissection; APUSH, we had a regents, and AP Spanish, I don't think there was. There was a calc final though.</p>
<p>We get a really easy final if we take the AP for the given class.</p>
<p>At my school for AP Euro, we take the multiple choice part of the final like a week after the AP exam and then we take the essay part during finals week (last week of school). But yeah, we mostly just chill and watch movies after the AP exam.</p>
<p>In my school district, all teachers are required to give finals, even if it is an AP class, so the AP teachers usually put together a really easy exam that only takes like half of the allotted time.</p>
<p>We usually have finals in AP classes a week or two before the actual AP test. The finals are usually mock AP tests, which is a nice practice. because of this, we don't have finals at the end of the year.</p>
<p>Computer Science was taking multiple choice questions, which the class averaged around an 80% on. Chemistry was a retake of the first test we took on the first day, a general chem test. We had been doing the AP tests for tests all along, and he gave us a break.
After the tests are over, in my classes, we either hung out, or I just skipped the class and left. We had finished the course and the book and there is no real point in teaching any more. This year, my absences are going to soar after the tests, if teachers even care. After 2nd period, Ill be done. Problem is, I keep getting sick and have 13 absences, the limit is 14 before I need to get them excused.</p>
<p>Mattd1688, you are so fortunate to be allowed that many absences. My school instituted this new rule (during my senior year, of course) that limits ALL absences (excused or unexcused does not matter) to 12/semester. If you miss more than that, you fail the class. The policy effective through 04-05 was 35 absences/school year were allowed. Additionally, any unexcused absence = detention for that class. Ugh. I cannot wait for college.</p>
<p>It's all about the money. The school will lose money from the state if kids aren't in school.</p>
<p>My school requires that every student take an exam for the class, but like others have said it's usually a BS exam after taking the AP exam (especially since many seniors here are taking 5-7 APs and don't have time to study for unimportant class exams.) For example, this year my English Lit final will be to write a letter to myself to be opened at our ten year reunion. In Government, we will be writing an essay about ways the teacher should improve the course for the next year.</p>
<p>no finals in an AP class for us. It's kinda nice. 2 finals sophmore year, one final junior year, no finals senior year.</p>
<p>My school is 14 per the year, 180 school days. Seniors get out early, I think around 165-170, but they are talking about getting rid of that too.Last year it was 16, but they cut it down. I had pnemonia and then I think strep throat, but I just had the fever, body pains for the first 4 days, and then my throat started hurting.</p>
<p>No, I don't think so. I mean - unless you get a really crappy teacher. I'm not getting an AP French final, because she's going to be on maternity leave by late March (yes, I'm screwed, but pregnant women need what they need... and I've been teaching myself anyway, so yeah..) </p>
<p>None of the other classes get finals, unless they are a regents/AP class (like the AP Euro class at my school -- serves as a global class & as an AP..). :)</p>
<p>At my school, if you are in the AP class and taking the AP exam, there is no final for that class. Regular classes still have finals for seniors though. I will only have one school administered exam, economics, because it's a required class.</p>
<p>Final exams are mandatory for my school. Which sucks b/c the AP teachers don't give us breaks w/ easy finals.</p>
<p>No finals for us as long as we take the AP and have at least a B in the course.</p>
<p>Teachers hate giving (that is, writing and grading) finals, so some of them find ways around it (like if there are a couple kids in a class who don't take the AP or can't exempt) - give a random project/paper instead, or just telling people not to show up for the final and just averaging the rest of their grades and putting it down for the exam. Or, some write really brutal finals to encourage students to take AP's.</p>
<p>AP classes at my school do not have second semester finals. We also have another incentive: if you are in the school's tutoring society (CSF) and have completed ten hours of tutoring, you are eligible to skip a final in any class that you have a 92.5% or better in.</p>
<p>we have finals but they are practice ap exams given the week before the actual ap exams. it helps alot for preparation and its a great grade booster since they grade it quite easily since they correlate it with ap exam scores (i.e. a 4 would be an A)</p>