HONOLULU -- Some of Hawaii's top public high school students take advanced placement courses that can help them earn college credits. However, with the looming cuts in instructional time because of the furloughs, those students are scrambling to make up those educational hours.

Kalani High School offers AP courses in literature, chemistry, biology and economics. Those classes offer the information that students would get at introductory courses of college.

At the end of the school year, the students will take AP tests and depending how well they do earn college credits. Then came the furloughs.

"I'm pretty nervous on how the test is going to go and college and my future overall. These furlough days can affect everything," Kalani senior Tatianna Mier said.

The courses are rigorous that are supposed to prepare you for an extremely challenging test.

"I plan the whole year out. So to lose 17 days is to cut out three weeks of instruction for these kids," English teacher Alex Kendrick said.

"Yeah, I'm concerned because now it just cuts out time, and I don't know if I will be learning enough in school," senior Paul Chinen said.

If students do poorly on the test they lose out on college credits. However, if a student does well on the test that could translate in fewer classes needed in college.

"They would be able to skip those college classes at the freshman level. We actually had a kids last year that started as sophomores. Depending on the school that could mean $30,000, $40,000," Kendrick said.