<p>My daughter just tried to sign up for physics c mech and E + M test. Each test is 1.5 hours long, but they each cost $83.00! Why don't they do this test like they do the calculus AB and calculus BC test? I can't believe that I have to pay $168.00 for a test that is the same length as all the other tests, and therefore no more work for the idiots at the college board to grade!!</p>
<p>$166 but i see your point</p>
<p>Looks like you have more brain than I have.</p>
<p>Calc BC covers the same material as AB, with some additional stuff. Physics C: Mechanics & the E&M test, however, cover different material.</p>
<p>Last year was the first year that you had to pay for the two physics tests, the two government tests, economics, etc. separately. Yes, it sucks.</p>
<p>Our public school actually pays for the AP exam fees that are associated with each AP class that the kid takes--I didn't realize what a break this is until we had to pay for an extra one....D took Mechanics last year after doing really well in Physics B class, too....we only had to pay for the Physics C part. She's taking 6 AP exams this May; I guess we can consider that money we didn't have to spend. Thanks, school system!</p>
<p>Stop whining, It saves you so much more in college and you dont have to spend 15 hours a week on one class, and do labs.</p>
<p>my school is too cheap, we have to pay for it also. a majority of schools i think the students pay for the tests.</p>
<p>First of all $83 is cheap compared to what it will cost in college. Second, here, the Great Land of 10,000 Lakes (Minnesota for the geographically illiterate), the state covers most of the costs and we only have to pay $8 this year per test no matter how many you take (in class or self study) last year we had to pay $22). I am taking eight tests for less than the regular price of ONE!!! So, write to congressman/woman/senator, although it probably won't do any good.</p>
<p>ahhh yeah. My school district is cheap.....they could totally afford it. Instead they had to put in a planetarium that is used like 2 times a year and probably cost about 5 years of kids AP tests.
!@%*</p>
<p>Next year I'm taking 5 APs, including Eonomics, menaing I'll be paying for 6 tests, meaning that thats a bit oer $480
not cool. </p>
<p>and I'm not complaining about $80 for a college credit course....I'm complaining that our school is cheap. haha.</p>
<p>Whether or not an equivalent college class would cost more and whether or not someone's state pays for the test isn't the point. The issue is is that collegeboard is charging a ridiculous fee for what is essentially a single standardized test -- something that really should cost about half as much. </p>
<p>It's the same way with a number of collegeboard services, such as normal score reports that aren't even mailed until about 3 to 5 weeks after they're requested, forcing many people, I'm sure, to pay for rush reports. I have payed over $1000 to collegeboard over the last few years for relatively minimal services.</p>
<p>Yea it frustrates me a lot too... I know a kid who is going to have to pay $415 and that extra physics part makes a big difference. I mean, not all kids get it paid for by their schools and or parents.</p>
<p>I do not think it is unreasonable to charge for the two exams seperately. They do have to pay two different sets of people to grade them and the exams do cover substantially different subjects.</p>