AP Exams

Staff writer

Faulkner Allocco

This week AP students open their books to study for the infamous AP Exams that are being proctored this week and next.

Advanced Placement classes are usually taken by junior and senior students at both Burris high school and the Indiana Academy. These tests range from an array of subjects from language to math and science. These tests are taken after the completion of a yearlong class in the area of study.

The Advanced Placement courses are more challenging then regular classes and are meant to simulate a college level class. Scoring highly on an AP test can get you college credits, which is the main goal of most students who take the tests at the end of the year.

Every year the AP tests are given the first two weeks of May and during this time both Burris and Academy students open their books and study for the test. You can see Academy students with books open at sporting events, during their lunch and on the weekends prior to their exams.

Burris senior Monika Mikolajczyk took the Calculus AB exam on Wednesday May, 3^rd in the Student Center Ball Room along with almost 50 other Burris and Academy students. “To study for the test I memorized a lot of formulas about area and volume, I also looked over my old notes and did some practice problems.”

Burris senior Amelia Heintzelman took the AP English Lit exam on Thursday May, 5^th on the third floor of the student center with her 20 classmates. “To prepare for the test I looked over the summaries of all the books we read and I looked over the literary terms we learned this year. I also drank a lot of coffee to help me focus.” Also taking the AP Spanish Language and AP Calculus AB Exams, the AP Lit. Exam was her third test in a row, which, like the others, took place from 8-12.

Burris senior Katie Murphy has yet to take her AP Statistics Exam, which will be proctored early next week. Katie says, “I’m going to look over my notes and over AP practice problems that we were given in class to prepare for the exam.” Preparation for AP exams are highly time consuming since these test are cumulative reviews from the whole year, and because of May Term a lot of Academy and Burris students will end up overlapping studying for the AP Exams along with their other finals.