Hello everyone, I really shouldn’t be blogging right now seeing as my AP U.S. History exam is at 8:00 am this Friday, and studying is my top priority, but I wanted to update everyone about our exams and how it’s going.
AP exams began this Monday (May 5th) and will continue until next Friday (May 16th). Personally, this year I am taking 3 exams: Statistics, U.S. History, and Environmental Science. I got through the first one, two more to go!
But enough about me, let’s talk about AP classes. I get a lot of questions from my parents, teachers, and other kids about AP classes, so I’ll pose some to you… Why should students take AP classes? For the college credit, the challenge, the boost in GPA, or some other reason I can’t think of right now? Is the AP system unfair in certain respects? For example, because the tests cost $83 a pop, are the exams biased towards those of a higher economic class?
There are rumors going around that next year at Skyline if a student takes an AP class, they will not be able to drop it. Is that fair? Even if they are failing?
So I’m curious to hear back from other students about why you take AP classes, or how your exams are going, and I’d love to hear from parents and teachers about those questions (don’t worry you don’t have to answer them all).