AP classes are often seen as a burden by students. Constant homework, accelerated curriculum, and rigorous tests consume the lives of the students who choose to take them. However, the teachers think differently. They remind the student body that with a certain degree of success in an AP class, can come a college credit, and the AP teachers are doing everything they can to prepare their students for the tests that begin May 6.
“We are reviewing all the material from the course in class, and we’re doing practice exams,” AP Physics B teacher Michael Voth said.
Going into a freshman year of college with a heavy amount of hours can relieve large amounts of stress and allow for more time to adjust to being away from home.
“Both of my brothers went into their freshman year at Arkansas with almost 15 hours completed,” junior Grant Jarvis said. “They said AP credit really helped them have an easy freshman year.”
Teachers understand the fears that come with moving on to college and the fact that most students want to achieve success on their AP tests for college hours, so they are doing everything in their power to lead them to a passing score of a three, four or five.
“We’re having our annual get together the day before to prepare for the test,” Voth said. “And they should be doing their study books and they should be doing their old practice exams.”
Not only are teachers using class time for preparation, they are had students participate in mock exams. The mock exams were AP tests from years past that are released to schools in order to acclimate students to an AP level test before the real deal.
“I the mock AP exam is the best way to prepare because you get a sense of how long it will take you and just how difficult the material actually is,” junior Quinn Havens said.
