Discontinued Exams

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<p>I took the Collegeboard's AP survey today. At the bottom, in small print, a couple of tests/courses were discontinued. There was also a list of tests/courses that were being considered. I forgot to copy the list as I was taking the survey - can anyone post a list? I remember these:</p>

<p>Discontinued:
AP Computer Science AB
AP Latin Literature
AP French Language and Literature
AP Italian Language and Literature
and...?</p>

<p>Possible New Courses:
AP Journalism
AP African-American Studies
AP Multivariable Calculus
and...?</p>

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<p>French Language is definitely not going to be discontinued I think the same goes for Italian Language.</p>

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<p>Actually it’s true.</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/ap-discontinuation-september-2008.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;

<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;

<p>Note that for French it’s Lit and not French Language.</p>

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<p>It’s French Literature that’s being discontinued, not French Language. Same with Latin.</p>

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<p>My son is heartbroken for his brilliant Italian teacher, who may have to change professions now. It’s such a shame!</p>

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<p>Are the possible new courses true? I could see Multi-Variable calc but the others seem kinda random…</p>

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<p>AP Multivariable Calculus… amazing.</p>

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<p>I am curious about what a prep book for AP Journalism would look like…</p>

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<p>I am not looking forward to AP MVC. AB/BC are living proof of what a joke CB has turned intro level calc into, so imagine how much they would slaughter MVC. The only way that exam could actually be useful was if the FRQ was 6 proof questions, but I’m sure they’re not interested in making an exam with a 90% fail rate.</p>

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<p>Ap dance ftw :)</p>

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<p>lol jenovaside, AP Theater would be hilarious if students performed a play together to get 1 AP score for all of them.</p>

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<p>lol @An0maly, you’re right :slight_smile:
calculus is a joke, but having ap MVC would be good… for credits… no?
ah not in my HS career tho</p>

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<p>I did not know they were considering these new exams - VERY interesting and in my opinion a great idea. Multivariable and journalism are two very good ideas, but african american studies? Maybe not.</p>

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<p>Noo, no more CS AB? T_T</p>

<p>Multivariable calculus won’t have a high test count, since people generally don’t even go as far as to BC by senior year these days, right?..</p>

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<p>its a shame, CS AB gone.
so i took it this year :stuck_out_tongue:
but then again, only ~5000 takers, not worth their time developing.</p>

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<p>I am not looking forward to AP MVC. AB/BC are living proof of what a joke CB has turned intro level calc into, so imagine how much they would slaughter MVC. The only way that exam could actually be useful was if the FRQ was 6 proof questions, but I’m sure they’re not interested in making an exam with a 90% fail rate.
pretty sure the people who would do the mvc would have 100% pass rate on bc and majority earning 5’s.</p>

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<p>Cept that BC is absolutely trivial and MVC is when a learning curve starts developing.</p>

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<p>AP Journalism…how would the ap exam be structured? I heard the mvc is beyond harder than any other mathematic course.</p>

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<p>^ yeah how is that even going to work? Haha I’m envisioning whoever locates the person who needs to be interviewed first, like some mad treasure hunt, lol.
You can’t really test journalism so much, a lot of it’s talking to people.</p>

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<p>MVC isn’t really difficult in an overall perspective if one has mathematical maturity. College Board should have a Real Analysis class lolz.</p>