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Sounds like AP testing, which is required for most competitive institutions.
by viklove 6y ago
Sounds like AP testing, which is required for most competitive institutions.
- bllguo 6y agoap testing is a lot shorter, clearly not as comprehensive, and graded very leniently in comparison
- kolanos 6y agoHow do you know this? Many posters here commenting authoritatively about two educational systems...
- bllguo 6y agoWhat do you take issue with? The first two are clearly factual. AP tests are limited to a single subject and are 2-3 hours in length. My comment on grading is also pretty objective, imo. Your AP score is 1-5. And the curve is crazy; when I took AP Physics C E&M I would have gotten a 5 whether I scored 60% or 100%. When reported, though, nobody will know what percentage of the points you scored. OTOH gaokao scores are reported in full.
- toast0 6y agoMy understanding is AP test results are usually used to grant credit for college classes, and not as an admission requirement? I guess it could be a factor in admissions, too, but I recall mostly people doing it to get a bit of a head start towards graduation, rather than to get a better shot at admission. (People passing AP tests are likely to get in _somewhere_, even if not their first choice)
- albntomat0 6y agoWhen I applied to college (recently, not that recently), AP test results were definitely used as part of admissions, in a similar fashion to SAT IIs.