<p>Hey guys...
Have you guys heard of the Advanced Placement International Diploma?? Does anyone have an idea about when and where it is conducted in India? Does it put one at an advantage when one applies to the Ivies or MIT?
Also, regarding the regular ap exams too, I have a few doubts. According to the college board website, ap exams are conducted in may..but does this apply to other countries as well? Also, do many people write these exams from India? Are they kinda necessary? Thanks in advance.....</p>
<p>All AP exams in the world are conducted in May.</p>
<p>just so you know, AP’s DO NOT give any any additional advantage whilst applying to colleges but they earn you college credits( ie - if by any chance you do get accepted to MIT, you will have to attend lesser number of classes/will have to take lesser number of courses than others because you have those credits)…if you want to show academic mastery to MIT, do well enough in ICSE/CBSE/IB and youre set!</p>
<p>^ just for notification, AP exams at MIT and ivy leagues are not used to give credit…just for placement into higher classes perhaps. But by their standards, they think that their course offering is quite different than the one taught in high schools and tested in standardized exams. I’m probably leaving out other privates among the ones I have already mentioned: but yea, that is the policy.</p>
<p>I think APs will show your higher work load to the universities and so will indirectly help you in admission, especially if you score 4 or 5 bands in them. In addition to that once you are admitted, 4 or 5 bands in APs will grant us credit and we will be placed directly in a higher class. So I think it has great advantages.</p>
<p>Aps are taken only in May in all countries including India.
I have taken 6 APs , out of which 2 results of this May are pending.</p>
<p>Given the resources you have, colleges simply see if you’ve lived up to the potentials offered. I don’t know whether AP classes are offered at India (or simply not stated when courses are listed), but some people implement by self studying the material for a specific AP. For college admissions at the u.s., universities do determine your caliber by the AP score. If you have an IB program, they see the IB score as well. You can choose to send the score you think colleges will like (which is usually a 4 or 5) once you receive them in mid july or early august. I guess it does put one at advantage b/c then colleges are in common grounds with you about your education since AP is a standardized exam that is provided to most students here.
Collegeboard sends two sets of exams for one subject: one is regular (which is given on the same day to everyone in the entire world-they don’t want anything leaking out and hence providing unfair advantage to some people) and the other is the alternate. AP exams don’t clash against each other, but IB exams do. Alternate exams are supposed to be given on another day (but that day too must be the same for all alternate exam takers).</p>
<p>We are an institute in Bombay that offers the AP exam. Here is our website:</p>
<p>[AP</a> GURU :: Advanced Placement Examinations](<a href=“http://www.apguru.com%5DAP”>http://www.apguru.com)</p>
<p>Which May should one take the AP exams in? If I’m applying in the December of this year for the Fall 2012 session and haven’t taken any APs yet, then there’s no point in me starting studying now and appearing for them in May 2012, right? Or is there?</p>
<p>^^i have exactly the same question.can anyone help?
ty</p>
<p>Colleges do not care when you take AP exams. Take them whenever it is best for you.</p>