> another guy didn't even take the AP exam, and another guy just put his head down on the desk during the AP exam. I don't know anything about these people but

> another guy didn't even take the AP exam, and another guy just put his head down on the desk during the AP exam. I don't know anything about these people but there's two "good" reasons for this: * Some colleges don't take certain AP credits e.g. the college I went to didn't take AP Bio credit, so I didn't take the exam for it when I took the class * Some high schools give GPA boosts for AP classes. For example, an A in an AP class was worth a 5.0 vs a 4.0 in a regular class. Some students may think it's worth it even if they don't do that well In general I agree with you because my AP Calc class wasn't rigorous or interesting at all. It was "here's how you do X, now do X 100 times for homework and take a test on it". > A lot of the students in my AP Calculus class had no business being there Maybe I'm cynical but this was the case at my college Calculus class as well. The entire back row was basically people cheating. There'll always be lazy people in freshman and sophomore courses.