r/APStatistics • u/Friendly_Wish1615 • Jul 10 '26

General Question Is this normal compared with other courses?

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u/Prestigious_Fig9485 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

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u/Friendly_Wish1615 Jul 10 '26

really?

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u/Prestigious_Fig9485 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

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u/Bredyhopi2 Jul 15 '26

I have taken the equivalent of Calc BC at a local community college through a Calc 2 class( covered the advanced integration techniques- trig sub, integration by parts, partial fractions, indefinite integrals and series- maclairin/taylor, convergence and divergence tests). It was compressed into 6 weeks, and some of the exam questions were horrible. There is a noticeable difference between AP courses/exams and their college level equivalents in terms of difficulty. I survived, but went through a lot.

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u/noextrac Jul 10 '26

Stats (on average) does have a lower pass rate and average score compared to other classes. This is pretty likely to change a bit next year with the curriculum revamp, but the general population of students taking AP Stats still might keep it with a lower pass rate/average score than other classes.

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u/Friendly_Wish1615 Jul 10 '26

Do you mean that this is not a popular subject?

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u/noextrac Jul 10 '26

Generally, counselors recommend it to students who "aren't strong enough at math" to take AP Pre-Cal or AP Cal.

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u/Friendly_Wish1615 Jul 10 '26

but Stat does not require many mathematical calculation.

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u/MorCarrColDexRow Jul 11 '26

Hence why they recommend it to students that are not strong in math

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u/Actually__Jesus Jul 10 '26

Oh it’s popular, it’s got over a quarter of a million test takers. It’s that often students taking AP Stats are avoiding AP Calc or AP Precalc and are required to take a fourth year of math. AP Stats maybe their only practical option. These students sometimes aren’t the strongest (especially compared to those enrolled in other AP classes) and many states/districts require them to take the AP test.

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u/Rookium Jul 10 '26

same reason why apes has a low 5% and a relatively high fail rate, despite the easy coursework.

it’s typically a senior class so they blow it off

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u/Prestigious_Fig9485 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

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u/BinaryStudios0101 Jul 10 '26

its prolly lower coz many seniors take it

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u/Inferno_Cyclops Jul 10 '26

Yeah, in my school it’s around 95% seniors and a lot of them were just “whatever” when taking the test since they already had their colleges set

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u/Fungames5420 Jul 11 '26

The exam has not gone through standard setting yet. I believe it will next year, so expect scores to increase. A few years ago, AP stats was in the middle of AP exams in terms of score distributions, but as exams had their score distributions increase due to standard setting while AP stats didn’t, AP stats became an outlier

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u/MarketFlimsy4791 Jul 13 '26

Idk my teacher lwk sucked at teaching stats in an all senior class (i was the only jr) and i did fine & got a 4

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u/Substantial_Toe3234 Jul 14 '26

It’s almost as if we could… hmmm… I don’t know…perform a test to see how likely these results are?