{"id":25897,"date":"2017-07-06T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=25897"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:14:22","slug":"ap-chances-of-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2017\/ap-chances-of-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Chances of Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, a reader asked if he should advise his son to take or avoid AP Physics 1.  There are a lot of things to consider when making the decision. Among them, I think all kids and parents should be aware of when deciding on whether a kid takes a particular AP test. The College Board has recently posted score distributions and a kid at reddit kindly did some processing. The College Board considers a 3 &#8220;passing&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a diagram ranking which classes had the highest and lowest percentage scores of 3 or greater:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4eVR9cS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4eVR9cS-450x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students on reddit are debating why some classes have high pass rates relative to others. I think there are lots of reasons and will be happy to share in comments. But what I wanted people pondering kids choices for High School physics to see is which class has the lowest pass rate: AP Physics 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, a reader asked if he should advise his son to take or avoid AP Physics 1. There are a lot of things to consider when making the decision. Among them, I think all kids and parents should be aware of when deciding on whether a kid takes a particular AP test. The College Board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2017\/ap-chances-of-passing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AP: Chances of Passing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}