East Islip Student Earns Perfect Score on AP Exam

EAST ISLIP, NY — An East Islip High School student has a lot to be proud of.

Senior Chiara Mosca recently received a perfect score on the Advanced Placement Research Exam, the East Islip School District announced on Tuesday, which she took in May 2021.

AP Exams are scored on a scale of 1 to 5. Mosca not only received the top score of 5, but was also one of only 375 students – amounting to just 1.56% of 2021 AP Research Exam takers – from around the world to earn every point possible on this challenging college-level examination.

“I am extremely proud of Chiara, but not surprised at all,” said Sheryl Ingoglia, Mosca’s AP Research teacher last year. “Right off the bat, at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, Chiara was on the Google Classroom full of ideas and ambition. She worked nonstop editing and refining her paper. It was inevitable that when Chiara decided to write a paper on perfectionism that she would earn a perfect score.”