<p>xD I'm pretty sure aigiqinf was just trying to be funny, not serious. =P</p>
<p>Yeah, I was kidding. You implied that AP scores were given randomly and therefore you have 20% of getting a 5. I think that you realized that this was wrong because you said that only 8% of students made a 5 in AP Gov. You can actually look up the percentages.</p>
<p>I said start with AP stats because you got them way off earlier. :) In any case, good luck.</p>
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Yeah, I was kidding. You implied that AP scores were given randomly and therefore you have 20% of getting a 5. I think that you realized that this was wrong because you said that only 8% of students made a 5 in AP Gov. You can actually look up the percentages.
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Even then, it's not like a random 8% of students get the 5. It's based on ability (and maybe a few guesses and whether you get lucky and know the specific questions they ask), so yeah... no random model works.</p>
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Even then, it's not like a random 8% of students get the 5. It's based on ability (and maybe a few guesses and whether you get lucky and know the specific questions they ask), so yeah... no random model works.
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<p>Exactly, and if the OP took up AP Stats this would be understood. ;) Try to do it by tomorrow, tomorrow is Epiphany.</p>
<p>Hmmm..... I've always wondered... what does OP stand for? Like I keep seeing it in threads but I have yet figured out what the acronym stands for...</p>
<p>'original poster' ;)</p>
<p>lol.. you don't pay for the tests, your school gives them to you free unless you're a homeschool student</p>
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lol.. you don't pay for the tests, your school gives them to you free unless you're a homeschool student
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That's not true. Only some schools do that, and those of us who attended such schools should consider ourselves lucky.</p>
<p>haha if you are from this part of the country (oklahoma) and happen to be an american indian, you get your tests paid for. most of us, however, don't fit this category (including me). i guess i have to pay for my own tests.</p>
<p>as for jobs, you want to go for a job that demonstrates that you have some type of skill or passion. don't work at a fast food place or something, unless your passion happens to be greasy junk. if you play a sport, try getting a job as an assistant coach to some little kids team. or you could do what i am doing and try to get a job as a tutor. this looks good, you help people, and they usually pay you a good amount to do it too.</p>
<p>Yeahh my school only does a reduced fee for all test takers (the test costs $60.00)</p>
<p>The entire education industry is a big scam. Hell, several hundred dollars' worth of AP tests I took in high school ended up not being recognized by my college, so I took them for nothing. And I went to a JC, so I took three SAT II tests and the SAT three times (scoring 2190) all for nothing. Wasted money on the ACT as well.</p>
<p>Of course, it's even worse when you get to college. My calculus textbook cost me $200. In my next calculus class, they're using a different book (SAME AUTHOR, SAME CONTENT, DIFFERENT PAGE NUMBERS) so I buy ANOTHER calculus textbook for $100. Not to mention the two calculus classes' tuition is $200 in itself.</p>
<p>And those are just two out of dozens and dozens of classes! A computer science class required for my major that teaches things most students ALREADY KNOW about computers costs $60 in tuition and $100 in textbooks. Not to mention just about all this information could be easily gotten from the internet for free.</p>
<p>Damn rip-offs, all of it!</p>
<p>That is why I pirate textbooks whenever I get the chance. But come on, saying AP Exams are a COMPLETE rip-off is not accurate. I got credit for my exams, for example. Yes, they are overpriced, but still useful.</p>
<p>^ Getting credit doesn't really mean that much. I need a minimum of 60 credits for my freshman and sophomore year, and by the end of this spring I'll have 91, not including the AP exams of course. Plus, like I said, certain AP exams aren't even recognized - i.e., I got a 5 on AP US history for nothing. >:[</p>
<p>I dunno how it worked out for you, but for me ap credits allowed me to skip calc 1 in favor of calc 2 and will allow me to avoid a humongous number of humanities (the University of Florida's general credit requirements) and writing classes (said university's gordon rule of 24,000 written words minimum), allowing me to concentrate on the quantitatively focused education I wanted.</p>
<p>May I suggest that perhaps you should have looked at your college's AP policy before you smacked down the cash for the exams?</p>
<p>Kitty - if you get college credit for even one AP class, your exams will be paying for themselves. I think that even in-state, a 3 credit college class costs over $750 in tuition, not to mention the overpriced textbooks.</p>
<p>You could always pay your parents back later or get a summer job.</p>
<p>It's really not fair how different schools handle AP. At my daughter's large, mediocre public hs, the school pays for all AP exams, even for students who are failing the class. And AP is open enrollment, so some kids take the class for the GPA boost and don't study for the exam. IMHO there should be a national policy on this.</p>
<p>It's every bit as unfair as funding schools through property taxes...but I won't go on.</p>
<p>^that just reminded me of how my calc ab teacher, Ms. Orwell, did it. My school payed for exams as long as the teacher approved of the student taking it. I think most teachers allowed whoever wanted it to take it, but Ms. Olwell talked about it somewhat. She said that she would have kids who were getting D's on her exams signing up for the ap test, and she wouldn't give it as much as a second look because, after all, "we need 1's to get 5's." God dammit she was awesome. We even have a facebook group dedicated to her quotes, Favourite</a> Orwell quotes | Facebook .</p>
<p>I think theres a way u can pay monthly.
that's what happens to the kids in my school. We pay it monthly.
good luck~</p>