Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by gbear605 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:47PM (#23265006)

Was that all covered by your first semester course? Because if so, that’s more impressive than a first semester course and MIT, CMU, or Harvard, let alone what a public school can offer.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by qubex on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:54PM (#23265148)

That was covered by a two-year IB (International Baccalaureate) course in Computer Science running from 1997 until 1998. I attended a private school (the International School of Milan).

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by gbear605 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:03PM (#23265296)

I don’t know the IB system, but AP tests are equivalent to testing students on a first semester college class. In computer science in the US, that means basic data structures and simple algorithms, and it’s been that way for the last thirty five years at least.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by mchan889 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:42PM (#23266982)

I generally don't like to say people are making things up, however there is a lot of mythology around how much work IB students do. I've frequently seen IB students while I was in undergrad boasting about their level of proficiency, despite it seldom being supported.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by qubex on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:23AM (#23269188)

If you think I’m boasting about something from more than two decades ago, that’s your problem, not mine.

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