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Every year, students scramble in a rush during lunch to the ASB office, creating a long line across the quad. For winter formal tickets? No. Spirit wear? No. These students come with large checks and bundles of cash to pay CollegeBoard for the long anticipated and dreaded AP exams.
The cost of $86 is not a newsflash for those students who have started off their AP high school career taking AP Euro sophomore year with Mrs. Thompson, or any other AP class for that matter. How much should an AP exam cost? Or should students even be paying at all? After all, students are taking these college level classes in high school for their own benefit. With all of the extra stress, hours of homework, and late nights of studying, students should at least be able to take the exam for free and spend the $86 CollegeBoard wants, elsewhere.
“I think AP tests are a great idea, however to pay $86 is ridiculous, considering that some people may not even pass it. Then you’re just wasting the money you paid,” says junior Ashley Becker, who has signed up for two exams herself.
Sure, $86 may not be a big deal for all students. But still, why pay for a test when they are taking the initiative to challenge themselves?
On the other hand, AP students do have a slight advantage over college kids in the same class at a university or junior college. If a student passes the exam, it is worth the cost. $86 is a fraction of the price of a college course, which also includes book and sometimes material fees.
For students who waited to pay CollegeBoard for their AP exams, I am sympathetic because the late deadline, late fee of $20 per exam included, brought each test to cost of $106.
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