AP Japanese Language and Culture
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Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture (also known as AP Japanese Language and Culture, AP Jap, or AP Japanese) is a course offered by the College Board
as part of the Advanced Placement Program
. It is intended to give student
s a thorough background in the Japanese language
and Japanese social customs. The class was first given as a certified College Board program in the 2006-07 school year. Preparations for the corresponding test were made, but the complex computer and internet requirements were not fully sorted out by administration time, and the exam was not given in some areas.
The grade distribution for 2007 was:
College Board
The College Board is a membership association in the United States that was formed in 1900 as the College Entrance Examination Board . It is composed of more than 5,900 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations. It sells standardized tests used by academically oriented...
as part of the Advanced Placement Program
Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
. It is intended to give student
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
s a thorough background in the Japanese language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Japanese social customs. The class was first given as a certified College Board program in the 2006-07 school year. Preparations for the corresponding test were made, but the complex computer and internet requirements were not fully sorted out by administration time, and the exam was not given in some areas.
Grade distribution
In the 2007 administration, 1,667 students took the exam from 328 schools. The mean score was a 3.48. This is the least widely taken exam of 2007.The grade distribution for 2007 was:
| Score | Percent |
|---|---|
| 5 | 43.4% |
| 4 | 9.2% |
| 3 | 18.8% |
| 2 | 9.1% |
| 1 | 19.4% |