<p>How/why do you guys pay $82 for these exams?? Do you pay or do your parents? It seems like a scam that they cost that much. If they costed like $20, that'd be one thing BUT---82!!! Wow, what a rip off...</p>
<p>Because if you get a good score, you say save hundreds in college.</p>
<p>It's worth it. Some exams are worth 8 hours of credit, which at some private schools could run over $9000.</p>
<p>Plus, they probably would be ~$20 if it were all multiple choice, but they have to pay thousands of teachers per test to grade the essays every year.</p>
<p>Oh, I see. I don't know if it's worth it though. I could pay on my own but I don't have that much money. I could convince my parents to pay but if I get under a 5, they would be ****ed at me for taking it....</p>
<p>my school pays half for us if we are in the AP class for the subject. my parents paid the other half last year.</p>
<p>See your lucky. My school thinks that since we're on dual credit that we don't need the AP exams. The only schools that really take dual credit are the ones that aren't so great.</p>
<p>Last year only 2 kids took AP exams even though they were discouraged. One took English and one took english and calc but I'm thinking about taking a couple. I hope though that my classes cover enough for whats on the exam. I'll have to ask my teachers on that one.</p>
<p>my school MAKES you take all the AP tests for all the AP classes your taking...and they add an extra $10 to each one for them to procter it. I'm taking 3 AP classes so my parents dont have any choice but to pay for them</p>
<p>I only have to pay $8. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to take them because this year that would be $328 this year, $82 last year, and 410 next year for a grand total of $820 dollars on 10 tests through out high school. Personally I think yall are getting ripped off.</p>
<p>Not everyones school system has enough money to pay for everyones test, so there is nothing we can do. Theres no use complaining, you arent legally required to take the test.</p>
<p>My school system actually gets very little funding, but we are a magnet school with residents. We offer over 25 or some such number APs. I don't know how my school does it, I still think that making people pay that much is too much, I wouldn't be able to take any exams if I had to pay it in full. As to the tuition thing, most people get some sort of grant, loan, or scholarship, so it's not like you pay all of the thousands of dollars for your course. I</p>
<p>Well if your family has financial hardships or something, you can always get a fee waiver...., Im taking apush and chem and I dont have to pay anything since i got waived.</p>
<p>At my school if you take more than one AP test they are $57 each, and if your family doesn't have enough money for it you get a fee waiver.</p>
<p>I do not know why you guys are complaining. If you didn't want to pay for the AP exams, why would you take the AP classes or self-study for the AP exams? I think that Collegeboard has set a good price for the AP exam, because, like lil_killer129 said, it saves you thousands in college! And if you do get a grant or a loan, you have to pay it back eventually! And if you do get a scholarship, the money that you didn't use (from my knowledge) goes into your pockets, which means that in the end, you are the winner out of it. And I think we, as AP exam takers, should not be upset with the price, because we are not paying hundreds of dollars for just one exam (like the IB test takers are doing). So, just try to be optimistic about everything.</p>
<p>lol. Like I said I'm not complaining, I only pay 8 bucks a test, because the incom of my school is so low. Even though $32 is going to be hard for me to come up with this year, I know I wouldn't be able to pay $330, and I don't think that my school waives fees because they already do so much. That sucks for IB takers, I didn't know they paid way more than AP takers.</p>