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Walking Out of My AP Exam
"My intention was simple; to relax and fail, but still get the letters 'AP' on my transcript."
By Lauryn Silverman
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Not having any motivation for a test can be one thing, but an AP exam is a whole different ball game. Youth Radio’s Lauryn Silverman believes students should not be required to take the exam at the end of the year. To protest, “I walked out during the first ten minutes of my AP Spanish Language exam.”
Yesterday I walked out during the first ten minutes of my AP Spanish Language exam. At my school, you can’t just take the class for the love of the language. You’re required to take the AP test at the end of the year…and I was staging a protest.
The idea of AP tests is to get college credit before college, by passing with a 4 or 5 on the exam. But I’ve heard that the “conversation” section of the test is really difficult. I had no motivation to take a four hour test that I had almost no chance of passing.
My intention was simple; to relax and fail, but still get the letters “AP” on my transcript - But because I walked out…I won’t get that distinction, despite the hour a day I spent in the class. It’s as if my Spanish class history has been wiped clean.
My only regrets are paying the 50-dollar deposit last week, and not staying long enough to make fun of the 200 gringos with tape recorders butchering Spanish for 10 minutes straight.
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