it depends on your school, but where i go, you do not need to take the exam to pass the class, never mind pass the exam to pass the class. if your school doesn’t require you to pass or even take the exam to pass an AP class, still take the AP anyway – it is really hard (rather impossible) to transfer credits without taking an exam, so it’s better to do horrible and omit the AP grade from your transcript than not take it at all and totally forfeit any chance of transferring credits. oh, and remember than an AP exam is probably unlike any standardized test you’ve taken (other than SATs, SAT IIs etc) in that it is really difficult to do well without studying. get a start on studying at least a month before the exam and little by little you should be ready and ace it. i also highly recommend REA review books (the one and only reason i got a 5 on my US history AP) and just follow the study outline they give you in the beginning of the book for pacing yourself for studying for the exam. good luck!

There really is no “pass” for an AP exam. It really depends on your school. AP grades come in the summer, so your AP class grade should have already been determined.

In my school we’re only required to take the test, not do well on it.

Besides what’s being mentioned, If you are majoring math, you’re required to take four years of Calculus in university, when you handed this one and get university credit, you could have simplest three years left. If you are no longer a math most important and nonetheless handed AP Cal, you don’t must take yet another math elegance for the leisure of your existence. Taking AP categories surely improvement you, even supposing you do not do good in those publications, it suggests schools that you are inclined to mission your self. three, four, or five at the AP examination does no longer imply what number of university credit you get, they just examine if one special university accepts this path.

there are ap class , but not to pass class. ap is score from 1 to 5 , 4and 5 are accept .that mean you earn your credit. the more credit you earn the less thing you need to do in college and if you take ap in hs you don’t need to do ap in college . also you save lot money if you take in hs . and one more thing to remain you if you score well in ap you earn scholarship as well . and some college even look at your credit, the ap you take , the score you got in ap . if you take ap , you earn more gpa than other who are not taking ap.ap and class is two differnt thing . you could take ap if you want, the school don’t force you to . but is good if you taking it . it improve your skill of learning and you learn more thing.even school have certain ap udon’t have to take them .

Usually your teacher will not use your offical AP score when factoring your grade. AP scores take a few weeks to get back, so you probably won’t even know your AP score by the time grades are due.

If you want to earn college credit for that class, then yes.