FWIW -- I graduated high school in 1986, and I definitely took AP exams. I got 6 college credits (three for English, three for math). Lois could have done the same.

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K