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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Are there really enough hours in a school day to take 10 AP classes in one year? Do they take AP electives? AP extracurriculars? Question: If you're deathly sick the day your AP test is given, how do you make it up? I'll bet there will be a way for these girls to take the test and get the credit.
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Not a whole lot to do with the point of this thread, but actually, I'm almost positive that it's true that there's only one day a year you can take the AP test in any given subject. There is a two-week period in May where AP tests are given, and each test is given the same day at approximately the same time all across the US (i.e., English lit is Monday morning of Week 1 EVERYWHERE across the country, and if you miss it, you can't make it up on, say, Thursday). The testmakers don't allow makeups because the format of the test is exactly same across the entire United States (how else would they make sure that kids in Florida are learning the exact same information as kids in Washington?), and they don't want somebody to be able to take the test in the morning and then call their friend who goes to a different school and tell her what's on the test so she can study that before taking the test in the afternoon . . . it would screw up the "objectivity" of the test.
Although my general thought is that it's only a freaking test. So what, they'll have to take Intro to Psych at the university next year instead of getting credit for it now? At least it'll be an easy GPA booster. It's not the end of the world.
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