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just a question. my history teacher signed up everyone for the AP US History test. Knowing I have no chance of passing, I don't want to take it..

Can I just sleep in that day and not show up for the AP exam?

By Hertish (Hertish) on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 06:14 pm: Edit

i think you can cancel your scores afterwords

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 06:50 pm: Edit

--bump--

By Texas137 (Texas137) on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 07:16 pm: Edit

you can sleep in as far as the College Board is concerned. At some schools taking the AP exam is required to pass or to get you the full grade you have earned in the class.

By Ndbisme5 (Ndbisme5) on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:27 pm: Edit

Just take the exam. You paid $80 for it, right?

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 05:29 pm: Edit

no.

By Skiowad (Skiowad) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:20 pm: Edit

ur school pays for the exam?

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:31 pm: Edit

yes, the school pays for all exams for which there is a class.

i've decided to take it anyhow.

By Shaka (Shaka) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:33 pm: Edit

wow your school must be really rich...

By Jenesaispas (Jenesaispas) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:34 pm: Edit

Either that or only a few students take the exam. Well, relatively few.

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:35 pm: Edit

actually.. our school isn't very rich at all. now i wonder where we get the money to pay for the exams.

we're just a simple grade C public high school.. i don't know where we'd get any money

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:38 pm: Edit

our school isn't very big.

Only about 90 juniors are in the AP program.. i don't know how much that is compared to other schools.

But 90 take AP US history and AP English language, 10 AP Chemistry, and 10 AP statistics.. 16000 dollars right there just on juniors.

hmm

By Shhh (Shhh) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 08:53 pm: Edit

do u live in fl? my school is also a C school and pays for our exams...we have no money...i think the governmentpays it

theres 1200 seniors ALONE...maybe around 300 are taking ap tests? not sure

and if u count juniors and sophmores, woah

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 09:09 pm: Edit

Yes, I live in Florida. I guess that answers the question then..

By Earthpressdflat (Earthpressdflat) on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 06:06 pm: Edit

Yep, Florida's extremely poorly ranked educational system mysteriously manages to foot the bill for AP exams. Not that I'm complaining, I live here too.

By Feuler (Feuler) on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 06:30 pm: Edit

Damn, that's a lot of money going to public schools. Our school is pretty strong academically (of 1700 students, about 30 Nat'l Merit finalists a year, 150 juniors taking AP US every year with around a 100% pass rate, many other similarl AP programs, etc.), and we often have weeks were teachers are not permitted to give us photocopies of anything because the school can't afford the paper.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 06:30 pm: Edit

Florida might confuse AP with AARP tests

By Amitoman (Amitoman) on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 06:32 pm: Edit

last year...


4 students passed the AP US History exam.. out of about 100

haha

By Ubercollegeman (Ubercollegeman) on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 07:03 pm: Edit

Haha. I'm on the opposite. Our school is one of the best public high schools in California, but I paid $492.00 this year for my six AP exams in full. We provide fee wavers for some poorer kids, but most people pay in full.

I'm guessing we don't do it because we have a VERY active AP program though. If our school paid for all our tests, it would easily cost over 150,000 dollars, probably closer to 225,000 dollars.

By Susu (Susu) on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 06:24 pm: Edit

FYI, individual public school districts (and if the district permits local school management, the individual school) can decide whether to pay the AP test fees, or not. It is more common for public schools who serve a lot of poor (as in dollars, not intellect) kids to pay the fees. Schools in well-off neighborhoods let the students pay the fees and pick it up only if a student asks for financial aid. If you're in private school, it's either included in your tuition or billed to you separately.

By Wishful_Thinker (Wishful_Thinker) on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 10:11 pm: Edit

i'm in florida and we are in a POOR school (according to me. i mean, our computers freeze atleast once every class...they are AGES old, our textbooks are always falling apart, we are short on teachers, we don't have proper funding for ANYTHING)

buttttt the school gets funded by Broward County to pay for 301 APs or something...it's screwy. and it's funny because our averages are pretty bad...we're like your average school that has saturday classes for people who didn't pass the fcat the first...or second time.

i'd say take the exam and amuse yourself. go and guess on all of them and see how well you can do by just guessing. and entertain the readers for the free response. i dunno...have fun w/ it

By Gmf05 (Gmf05) on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 04:54 pm: Edit

In Georgia, the state will pay for one AP test per student. However, I ended up getting my other tests for free because the county picks up the bill for the rest of them. It's just a state/county policy for most schools.