Advanced Placement Subjects Where Black Students Excel

On Advanced Placement tests taken in 2007, African Americans achieved their greatest success rates on the French language and French literature tests. More than half of all black test takers received a score of 3 or higher, equivalent to a passing grade in a college-level course.

There is good news in that one of the AP courses in which blacks achieved the most success was one of the two calculus tests. More than 52 percent of all black students who took this AP exam received a score of 3 or above.

Blacks also fared well on the studio art design tests. More than half of all black students who took these two tests received a qualifying grade of 3 or above. A majority of all black test takers received qualifying grades on the German test and one of the two Latin tests.