Opinion: How a new evaluation model dumbs down Advanced Placement scores

For many popular exams, recent score reports reflect not a surge in student mastery, but a quiet lowering of the bar.
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Admissions Officers Beware: Some Advanced Placement Scores Are Inflated

While high school GPAs have been gliding upwards for years, college admissions officers have relied on Advanced Placement (AP ...
Chicago Tribune

Naperville teen defeats odds with back-to-back perfect scores on AP physics exams

Call it a repeat for Naperville North student Jason Xia. For the second year in a row, he earned a perfect score on an Advanced Placement physics exam. Physics teacher Kevin Farrell said he’s not ...
Education Week

More Students Taking AP Physics, Computer Science Exams

Participation rates for Advanced Placement science exams —specifically physics and computer science—have risen sharply over the last year, according to data released Sept. 3 by the College Board. The ...
Chicago Tribune

Naperville North junior becomes first in world to get perfect score on AP physics exam

When Naperville North High School sophomore Jason Xia took the AP physics 1 exam last May, all he was hoping for was to have enough correct answers to earn the maximum score of 5. Now a junior, the 16 ...
The Boston Globe

Massachusetts students had the best AP exam scores in the country. But that needs crucial context.

Public high school students in Massachusetts last year had the best Advanced Placement test scores in the country ever recorded by any state, a milestone Governor Maura Healey celebrated Tuesday for ...