AP tests are underway. Whether you’re taking Comparative Government, Latin, or one of the more than 20 AP courses offered, you’re likely either studying furiously, or, if you’re done, resting easy waiting for the year to end.

But there’s the issue: once the tests are over, on Friday, May 12, students still have three weeks of classes. How are teachers going to fill that time? And how are students going to respond?

Junior Ana Weed currently takes four AP classes: Calculus AB, English Language and Composition, Chemistry, and Psychology. With the AP Chemistry and AP Psychology exams on the same day, Ana will have to spend her time wisely. After her four exams, she hopes to have a relaxing end of the year.

“I hope that after all the work teachers have seen us put into studying for these exams, they can use this last month for doing something fun. However, I still want to learn after the exams are over,” she said.

Teachers have many ideas in mind for what they plan to do during the last few weeks of May. Some AP classes go beyond just preparing for the AP exam. They also have a final project.

AP Chemistry, taught by Mr. Berghoff, is one of these classes.

“We have a term end lab project that will be worked on from the exam through to the end of the term,” Berghoff said. “It will count as a variety of grades, which I will introduce after we take the AP exam.”

Ms. Rodgers, who teaches AP Psychology, plans to end the trimester by giving her students a project as well. After the exam, her students “will be designing, applying, and sharing projects that are student driven, with ideas about how our cognitive processes and behavior interact with one another.”

Students have a range of topics to choose from, including abnormal psychology, child development, and social psychology.

AP English Language and Composition teacher Mrs. Sawyer is bringing her class to a close the traditional way – by continuing to teach. Her students will be working on a personal essay, which will “have the added benefit of preparing students to write their college essay this summer.”

Ms. Sawyer added, with characteristic enthusiasm, “I love class, don’t you?”