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More Students Taking, and Failing, A.P. Tests

February 10, 2010 /

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The College Board’s Advanced Placement program is expanding in American high schools, but as it moves from being a program primarily for elite students, the number of students who fail A.P. exams is growing — although not as much as the number of students who pass.

According to a College Board report released Wednesday, about 800,000 public high school seniors in last May’s graduating class, or 26.5 percent of the class, took an A.P. exam at some point in their high school career. All told, they took 2.3 million exams, about 57 percent of which resulted in a passing score of 3, 4, or 5 — high enough to earn college credit at many institutions. About 43 percent got a failing grade of 1 or 2.

By TAMAR LEWIN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/education/11college.html?hpw

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