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The Struggle is Real for Woodland Sophomores

ap-classIt’s CAPT season again and for the AP students it’s time to get in that extra practicing.

The reason AP classes do AP reviews is because during CAPT testing, every class loses one day of learning. As the AP classes are reaching the home stretch for the exam week,  AP class cannot afford to miss a day of class. These reviews give every teacher at least the 90 minutes they would have lost on some review days. Some can review for up to two hours.

After the decision was made last year to allow sophomores to take certain AP’s, this years sophomores have been working hard all year to show that they are capable of taking AP classes. They have been able to keep up with the work load. But unfortunately, they will not have the same opportunity as juniors and seniors to take the practice test. During the first two weeks of March, the sophomores take a state mandated standardized test called CAPT. Freshmen take practice CAPT test to prepare for the next year. Juniors and seniors are not required to retake the tests unless they do not meet the proficient level. So for the two weeks of CAPT, those juniors and seniors do not have to come into school until that CAPT test is over for the day– unless they are taking an AP class.  For the juniors and seniors that choose to take AP classes, there are mandatory AP review sessions for each AP class.

Since the CAPT exams are mandatory, the sophomores  are losing out on these AP review days.

Sophomore Emma Sardinskas who is missing out on the AP Psychology review, stated “I am disappointed that I can’t go but Ms. Olivere said we would take it at a later date”.

Some of the AP teachers have no other option but to come up with alternatives. They want sophomores to get the same practice that the rest of the students do.

“The sophomores will not fall behind,” said AP Pyschology teacher and Humanities Department Head Lisa Olivere, ” I will give them an option to make up what they miss with something like a take home test”.

While it is a major inconvenience for sophomores not to be able to go to the AP review, sophomores will have different opportunities to prepare for the big test.