<p>To the OP: If your daughter is a senior, there is absolutely no reason for her to feel stressed out over AP tests.</p>
<p>They won’t affect her college admission. Colleges do not rescind admission offers to seniors based on their AP scores.</p>
<p>Instead, she can consider the AP tests to be diagnostic tests. Is she ready to go on to more advanced work in these subjects in college? Or are there gaps in her preparation, suggesting that she would be better off taking these subjects over (if she ends up taking them at all)? </p>
<p>I don’t even see any particular reason why she should study much. She can just take the tests and see what happens.</p>
<p>My son took AP AB Calculus, and when he came home after the test he told me, “Mom, there were whole topics on that test that we didn’t cover in class. Even if I somehow get a good enough score to place out of first-semester calculus at college, I’m taking it over. I don’t really know the material, and I’m going into a major where I really need to know this stuff.”</p>
<p>I think that was $75 well spent.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my daughter took both the AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics tests, got 5s on both, and felt so confident in her knowledge of the subject matter covered on the tests that she accepted the advanced placement offered by her college and took two junior-level economics courses intended for economics majors in her freshman year. We don’t know how well she will do in this semester’s course, but in last semester’s course, she got an A+. Again, I think our money was well spent because of the diagnostic value of the test. She would have been bored out of her mind taking introductory economics over. </p>
<p>Whatever happens in terms of scores, your daughter will learn something important by taking those AP tests.</p>