AP Tests

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AP exams test college-level knowledge
It's exam week for AP courses. Potentially grueling, a mark of achievement, perhaps a chance to start college a little ahead of the game.

Advanced Placement courses are college-level courses taken by high school students. An estimated 1.5 million students in 100 countries will take an estimated 2.75 million exams this month in 37 subjects.

Jennifer Topiel of the College Board -- which administers the AP exams -- says that's the most since AP courses were introduced in 1955. You can read the AP Report to the Nation 2007 here.
And if you, or your children, are taking this year's exams, there are still some important dates ahead. Read the College Board bulletin here.

Most students who take AP exams -- more than 80% -- take one or two exams. Just 4.7% took four, and 1.7% took five.

And then there are 26 students who last year took a mind-boggling 10 exams, Topiel says. That's more than a full schedule for most schools.

-- Mary MacVeanere is some information regarding AP tests.