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Originally Posted by Crocus
I'm afraid I don't understand much of this - I have not had the time to look it up. These are different kinds of exams that make you eligible for college? I assume they are open for high school students? And how can you get college credits from an entrance exam? From what I read I thought your university credits worked like ours do, where you get credits from passing uni courses, and certain combinations of credits might lead to a degree, but then you actually have to take the course first...
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Advanced Placement courses culminate in an exam (which is optional unless a student is in a district that requires all of its AP students to sit for the exam). The exams are scored and a qualifying score means that colleges and universities can give credit for certain courses if they so choose. Colleges don't have to accept AP credit at all. Most do though, recognizing that students who have successfully qualified on the exams, which are incredibly rigorous, have met the requirements for comparable courses in their institutions.
So for instance, my students take the AP English Language & Composition exam. The course focuses on rhetorical analysis, persuasion, and argumentation. Generally, qualifying on this exam can earn 3 or 6 hours of freshman level rhetoric and composition credit depending on how high a student's qualifying score is and what the individual universities choose to give credit for -- it varies.