There's a difference between what happens in an AP classroom where the instruction is often excellent, and what kind of writing performance is incentivized by something like the AP exam, and I promise you that students are being coached with templates and even being told it does not matter if what they are saying is accurate, as long as …
There's a difference between what happens in an AP classroom where the instruction is often excellent, and what kind of writing performance is incentivized by something like the AP exam, and I promise you that students are being coached with templates and even being told it does not matter if what they are saying is accurate, as long as it "sounds good" because of the way the exam is scored, and because credit on the exam is so meaningful to them. Every good thing you do in your class can exist without the existence of an AP exam.
There's a difference between what happens in an AP classroom where the instruction is often excellent, and what kind of writing performance is incentivized by something like the AP exam, and I promise you that students are being coached with templates and even being told it does not matter if what they are saying is accurate, as long as it "sounds good" because of the way the exam is scored, and because credit on the exam is so meaningful to them. Every good thing you do in your class can exist without the existence of an AP exam.