Advanced Placement Program

Curriculum Guide 2022 - 2023

Language ab initio: Language course for students with little (none in High School) or no prior experience in the language. (**offered online if enrollment is 6 or lower)

Language B: Language course for students with 2–4 years of prior experience in the language.

*School-supported self-taught Language A: A self-taught language is one for which the student studies their native language (other than English) supported and paid for by their family, with some support from AISC. Self-taught language students work with an IB-trained tutor, provided by the family, to move through the IB Language A Literature SL curriculum. AISC provides necessary support to register the student and provide for and upload all assessments, but does not assume any teaching or tutoring responsibility. A school-supported, self-taught language meets the requirements for Group 2. Students completing English A and a school-supported self-taught language Literature A SL will receive a bilingual IB diploma. AISC students have self-studied Turkish, French, Korean and German in the past five years

** ab initio language will be offered online with Pamoja if enrollment is below 7.

ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM

The Advanced Placement Program (AP), administered by the College Board (US) is a collaborative effort between motivated students, dedicated teachers and committed high schools, colleges, and universities. The AP is designed to offer high school students a course experience equivalent to an introductory-level US university course. Since its inception in 1955, this program has enabled millions of students to take college-level courses and exams, and to earn college credit or placement while still in high school.

A committee of college faculty and master AP teachers designs each AP course to cover the information, skills, and assignments found in the corresponding college course.

More information about the AP Program is available at AP Central, the College Board’s online home (apstudents.collegeboard.org). Students can find more information at the AP student site.

AP Exams

Each one-year AP course has a corresponding exam that participating schools (such as AISC) administer in May. AP exams contain multiple-choice questions and a freeresponse section (either essay or problem solving).