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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock News Special Writer
This past school year three Rappahannock County High School students worked in a special study group in order to achieve advanced placement in chemistry. Advanced placement is a program offered by the college board testing service which allows students to attempt a college course in a high school setting. The student works under the same standards as a freshman level college course. Brion Patterson was their instructor.
The students took an advanced placement test in the spring. The outcome of the whole year depended on how they did on the advanced placement exam. If they did well enough they received college credit for the work they had done.
Teacher Brion Patterson explained, “We started with four students this past fall and three of them completed the program. They were Jonathan Waston, Eduard Welch, and Will Oliver. The basic purpose of the program was to give the students the best possible preparation for college and we set the advanced placement test as a goal.”
“1 would not call it a fun course at all. It was a whole lot of hard work,” Mr. Patterson added.
Besides coming in for the regular chemistry' class period, the students met in the lab before homeroom each day. They had anywhere from one to several hours of homework each night. There was a lot of studying, a lot of problem solving and many math calculations. They also came in on rain and snow days and holidays so they could keep up with their work.
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