Whatisnext2017
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Are senior AP test results used for any reason DS has a little senioritis going into his APs tests. Any advice?
AP scores are used in the process to "validate" a plebe course - but he can also take tests during Beast to help in the process, so unless he strongly wants to skip ahead or take an advanced level of a class, I wouldn't worry too much about not reporting AP scores on tests that don't go as well as you'd want.
As Kinnem said, validating will free up room for courses later on, but additionally it can help with some of the Plebe killers like Chemistry. After his overnight in March and talking to the current plebes, my DS came back determined to score well on the APs so he can validate at least two or three classes including hoping to validate Chemistry and Physics.
To date, validating Chem just means you take advanced Chem. Some like it, some do not.
Incorrect. It is possible to fully validate both chemistry and physics; I know from personal experience with chem.
Validating chem allowed me to start my language as a plebe
validating history allowed me to knock out AP as a plebe
validating English allowed me to knock out philosophy as a plebe
pretty much everything except math opens up doors to more freedom down the road; math just puts you in a much harder plebe year course.
So, what classes can I validate, you think? I know that it is all speculation, but from experience and general knowledge:
If I have a 5 in US & World History, do I get out of the general History class?
If I have a 5 in US Politics and Government, do I get out of the government class?
If I have a 3 & 5 in English Composition and Literature, respectively, can I get out of both philosophy and plebe English?
I am taking my AP Chem tomorrow and my AP Calc Wednesday... but I am not a hard science guy, so I doubt I will score high enough to validate.
Thanks!