<p>College Board's descriptions of the requirements for the various AP Scholar Awards typically say "grades of X or higher on Y or more of these exams." I cannot find any information on College Board's website regarding whether all of the AP exams offered would qualify for the award requirement. I assumed then that all of the AP exams would count towards these awards, including exams for half year courses such as AP Computer Science A, or even half-exams such as AP Physics C: Mechanics. However I saw some posts claiming that only those exams for full year courses would count as one exam towards the award requirement, and similarly two AP exams for half-year courses would be counted as one towards the requirement. Does anyone know which is truly the case, and whether the College Board provides any documentation regarding this matter?</p>
<p>Starting two years ago, each exam you take counts seperately, so Physics C: Mechanics is one exam, Physics C: E&M is a second etc. There are no more "half-year" exams when it comes to counting for AP Scholar awards</p>
<p>So if you took Computer Science AB three years ago, is it going to get counted as two or one now? I'm not overly concerned - my son either got 6 perfect or 7 - plus whatever he takes in the fall. It does seem silly that the two easiest courses (for him anyway) would count double. He's in line for AP Scholar and I doubt he took more APs than anyone else in the school.</p>
<p>All exams, regardless of when you took them, count individually. In the past, some exams (each econ, each part of Physics C, CompSci A, Physology etc) used to count as 1/2 exams, but now, everythign is a full exam.</p>