The College Board recently announced that they will stop deducting points on AP exams for missed multiple choice questions, read about the policy change here. Beginning in May 2011, students will receive 1 point for each correct answer and 0 points for incorrect answer. Here’s the new policy from the College Board’s website: Beginning with [...]
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2010
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Dec
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2009
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2009
U.S. News’ 2009 America’s Best High Schools
U.S. News and World Report recently published their “America’s Best High Schools” and as predicted, it is ruffling a few feathers as demonstrated by the comments on their website. Both this ranking and the Newsweek ranking use a similar formula. Newsweek’s rankings are determined by taking the number of AP and/or IB exams administered divided by [...]
Sep
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2009
21
2009
Tufts University AP Credit Policy Reduces Students’ Credits
There was an article in the Tufts Daily on Sept 18th that discusses Tufts University’s decision to put a cap on the number of credits a student can earn from AP scores. This does not bode well for incoming students who thought they would have many prerequisites under their belt due to good AP scores. Despite some student [...]