<p>@SeekingUni, you don’t happen to be in Florida, do you? Your school sounds exactly like mine with the shoving kids into AP classes. Lol. Our History and English APs especially are packed with kids who should be in honors or reg.</p>
<p>@Alliere: Actually, I am in Florida lol. Let’s see… does your county start with H?</p>
<p>But yeah, basically, an average student in the real world is placed into an AP course at my school, a below average student is placed into honors, and you have to pretty much demonstrate near-mental-deficiency to be in a “regular” class. It’s pretty pathetic, and it dumbs down the upper-level classes… I really hate it.</p>
<p>@SeekingUni, yes actually it does… Does your school happen to start with a P? (or technically an H)</p>
<p>And yeah, I can’t actually think of any of my friends who are in a regular level class at my school, besides electives. I know very few people in honors apush or honors english. I think the AP math and science classes do a little bit better job here of only attracting higher level students. Although there are mannnny people in my ap bio class who signed up for an “easy A” class and wound up with a different teacher from last year and definitely not easy. But that class is an exception because the previous teacher was notorious for not teaching.</p>
<p>At my school you are limited to:</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP European History</p>
<p>Junior:
AP US History
AP English Language
AP Statistics
—Next year they’re adding AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>Senior:
AP US Gov’t
AP Biology
AP Literature
AP Spanish Language
AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>Senior year you may take AP classes online. If you’re a senior who wants to take an AP class offered to juniors/sophomores, or a junior that wants to take Euro, you’re allowed to.</p>
<p>Well the Koreans don’t get special treatment. They’re just usually really good at math. This isn’t meant to sound racist, either. All, not just some, of the Korean exchange students are in advanced math classes. A few of them have done really well in the AMC exam.</p>
<p>
H.B. Pxxxx ? That’s not where I go… my school starts with an N (technically a J). Just PM me lol.</p>
<p>Freshman - none unless you do an accelerated program in middle school, then you can do calc AB, or lit/lang
Sophomore - APUSH, Psych, bio, or calc AB or lit/lang if you do the accelerated program
Junior - physics B, chem, bio, us gov, lit, euro, art, stats, spanish lang, psych
senior - physics B, chem, bio, lang, euro, art, stats, spanish lang, calc AB, psych</p>
<p>My school has a terrible AP program. We don’t have calc BC or physics C, and with the APs we have, we only have about a 50% pass rate.</p>
<p>We pay for our APs. I’m in NY. 89 dollars per exam…it kind of sucks.
Freshmen-Only AP World (2 year program through sophomore year)
Sophomores-Still only AP World
Juniors-No AP Euro, no AP Calc unless you took classes outside of school or something, no AP Psych (ways around this though), starting next year they are reversing the AP English classes (now juniors take lang/seniors lit), and everything else offered
Seniors-Everything offered</p>
<p>Freshmen: Nothing
Sophomore: Biology, World History
Junior/Senior: Everything else (except a few)</p>
<p>It’s 89 dollars per exam here too (Long Island, NY). But kids with financial issues can have the school pay for them, because it’s mandatory for kids enrolled in AP to take the exam. We sign an agreement form and everything. It’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>@SeekingUni that’s my school to- starts with a N or J. lol</p>
<p>My county pays for the exams. They just throw any kid in an AP class. Then say you want to drop it in the middle of the year they make you drop down to regular… because that makes so much sense?</p>
<p>We pay $79 for each. However, between a grant and the school, the English, math, and science tests were free to the students this year. Furthermore, a school policy is that anybody who passes gets their money back.</p>
<p>As far as I know, there is not limit on the # of exams you can take. We pay $37 for each exam, because the school has some deal with CB or something, idk how it all works. </p>
<p>Sophomores and up can take AP classes and exams. The first AP we take is AP US Gov. Once you’re a junior, almost all the AP classes are available to you, except for AP Euro and AP English Lit, and AP math & languages depend on junior/senior based on where you’re at, so that is different from one person to another of when you can take them.</p>
<p>My sophomore and junior years, if you took the class, you had to take the exam. That changed this year, it is now an option to take the exam. It was funny because some people didn’t know the rule had changed and signed up for the exam, thinking they had to. Later when they found out they didn’t have to take it, they were mad. The school didn’t do a very good job of letting people know the rule had changed. We had a different school president up through last year, and that was his rule. He retired, and now the new one changed the rule.</p>
<p>My school offers about 21 AP’s and they are starting AP chinese next year
Restrictions are that you can’t take more than 4 or 5 AP’s a year … some students take 6 but only if there are 2 “soft” ones.
9th - can’t take any
10th - AP Bio
11th - everything
12th - everything</p>
<p>My school is very similar to ElMastermind, tennispower and CalvinTBOD.
Long Island, also.</p>
<ul>
<li>It’s $89 per exam.</li>
<li>AP World is offered as a two-year course (9th grade world is called honors, 10th is AP)</li>
<li>AP Language is 11th grade, and AP Lit is 12th grade.</li>
<li>APUSH is 11th grade, AP US Gov is 12th grade.</li>
<li>Other than that, you can take any AP class that you want, with no prerequisites, but if you get below an 80 in the class, you’re forced to drop it. There is a “track” system that will automatically place you in classes at the same level as classes you are currently in, but you can push to get around it without much trouble if you want to.
There is no Calc BC, Physics C, Stats, some of the languages, economics, comparative government, computer science, geography or psychology due to the small size and relative lack of interest. (I thought there was AP Psychology, but it turns out it’s actually a half-year elective that might just be the most hated class in the school) You can self-study any of them, but you pay.</li>
</ul>
<p>If anyone thinks they know what school I’m in, go ahead and PM me. I might have given too much information.</p>
<p>$53/per exam. Not required. You pay. There IS NO AP POLICY. lol. i know at least 5 people in my school who took Cal their freshman year. I know 4+ that took AP Bio their freshman year, 2 that took AP Physics.
Someone took 27+ AP exams at our school last year…</p>
<p>^What was this individual’s average grade? How many were passed?</p>
<p>All were passed, no 3s. 4-5 4s.</p>
<p>$87 per exam (fee reductions possible, if on free/reduced lunch program (i.e. very low income), only $5 per test). </p>
<p>Any exam can be taken; I’m doing 9 this year. Some may need to be taken at a different school.</p>
<p>Normally:</p>
<p>9th-none
10th-Euro
11th-Any (given prerequisite)
12th-See 11th</p>
<p>Of course, with parental permission/counselor’s trust/teacher recommendation/etc., you don’t have to follow the suggestions for AP’s.</p>
<p>9th Cant take APs
10th Can only take APUSH <– just took ;D
11th limit of 2 APs with 3.5 unweighted gpa with like 97% attendance
12th limit of 2 (3 for best of the best) with 3.2 unweighted with 95% attendance</p>
<p>Also, our school pays for most of the exam so the student pays 20$ per exam.</p>
<p>Hm, that’s interesting that the majority of the schools seem to make you pay for AP exams. I had thought it was the other way around. Just curious, is there anyone outside of Florida whose school charges nothing for every exam?</p>