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In reply to the discussion: 4th grade Science test - please tell me this is not real [View all]exboyfil
(17,914 posts)My daughter took an APEX Economics class on her own to clear up her schedule next year. It was not a very well presented course, but she did have to do some studying to take the proctored tests (online and written). Overall I feel she got a pretty good understanding of Economics. She reports that several of her classmates are now taking the same class for repeat credit (they did not pass the High School version of the course). They only have to take the online version (not the written portion), and they are allowed to refer to their notes (basically summary sheets with all the concepts as fill in the blanks).
The Honors courses and AP courses at her High School are very rigorous (actually harder than her community college courses). They do not have weighted GPAs so the really good students are somewhat penalized (that is ok since the really top students take AP and Honors and get As anyway). We are a little concerned that she might get less than an A in one of her college classes which will throw her out of the top 5% (she already has one A-). If that happens then she becomes ineligible for partial state college scholarship even though she will graduate with at least 50 hours of college credit - most of it applicable to an engineering degree.