Update on the 2020 AP Exams in Progress | COVID-19 Series | The Princeton Review

If you haven't taken your AP exams yet, watch this update on how the at-home, open-book exams are going so far. For the most part, they're going well; however, some students have had technical difficulties submitting their work. Find out what you can do to minimize your chances of test disruptions.

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[Asad_Nayyer]

The chem exam was crazy I’ve never seen a practice question like those questions.

[fuzzypack]

I took my AP physics 1 at 1:30 AM ... for the last question I attached my photos and the submit button was not working ... I pressed it like 200 times ... My wifi was fine ... after the time was finished it said “ we didn’t receive your response”
Thank you college board

[simaranjeetkaur]

I think it's so stupid that people will have to retake the test again when they it's college boards fault

[glennwatson]

I think they should have done multiple choice instead of FRQs

[mattharvey]

I personally didn’t have an issue in either of my two exams(one Monday, the other Friday) but a friend of mine had an issue on Friday submitting his second question.

[ardyunlu]

How is it that %99 of all ap students submitted without problems if so many of my friends (at my school and abroad) suffered from the same problem. I was lucky enough to not have a problem submitting. I did receive the questions about a minute late, but that’s not as big a deal as others.

[pizzatime]

How the hell am I gonna take a pic, email it, and attach it within 5 minutes????

[sparkle]

I'm kinda worried because for physics I wrote my response on the second page of the word doc instead of the first so the grader might think I just left the whole thing blank

[grangerproductivity]

AP Calculus AB practice test was doable then the actual AP exam questions was crazy considering the time limit we were given

[RockoRango]

It’s easy to say that “99%” of people have been able to submit the tests without issue without any proof. However, we still see a major abundance of students not being able to submit because the College board isn’t at the very least constantly updating fixed versions/troubleshooting guides for the AP Exams. That “1%” could be an abundant amount of people, considering how many are taking AP around the U.S, and even then it feels like no one is giving teachers any real information about how to deal with these issues. My own school had to ask AP students who ALREADY took the test to make up an article describing how to fix many issues because THE COLLEGE BOARD ISN’T GIVING A LIST OF KNOWN CAUSES/FIXES, at least to my knowledge. I couldn’t bare to be one of the first to take these exams, knowing that there’s a likely chance I have to take it AGAIN because the board hasn’t polished the process. At the very least, the College board should be giving teachers information about how to troubleshoot student’s problems with the test (or the teachers should be more vocal about helping students who have trouble); they’ve had months to perfect how the exam works online, yet the amount of problems forcing people to re-take an already incredibly difficult test is still unacceptable. To conclude, the most important of all things at the moment is communication with students and staff, because the CB can’t hold everyone’s hand when they can’t even hold their own. This isn’t me trying to diss the board, rather trying to give valid criticism (as passive-aggressive as I’m being, hopefully people understand it’s fair to feel this way): use your time more wisely if a situation like this happens again to make sure people don’t suffer more than they already have to.

[billy]

I REALLY want to know what the percentages needed for a 5 is

[Hey-cvxs]

My computer science exam submitted smoothly. I copy and pasted btw

[movement]

You make it sound so simple. First off, I have already taken my AP calculus test and I submitted my exam without having to email it to myself. It took me 3 mins to get a visible picture of my answers, there was no way I am able to email myself, and resubmit in 2 minutes. They shouldn't have made this so complicated. I don't think I had any technical difficulties during the exam.

[Imoverherewatchinsomeyoutube]

What if your answers were still submitting when the timer hit 0?

[sebastianjeon]

if there is no curve and students have different tests how on earth is that fair. college board well done

[grangerproductivity]

After submitting my files, I received that I have successfully completed the exam and I am wondering since my friend who also completed the test successfully said that she received an email 2 days after the exam that she has to take a makeup exam even though she successfully submitted her files, will this also happen to me? How will I know that Collegeboard successfully received my files?

[ardyunlu]

Also I had no trouble submitting directly from an Ipad. I used the rear camera and it accepted it, so I’m assuming that Iphone and Ipad pictures are automatically JPEG. There shouldn’t be a problem. Also why is this even an issue? What’s a student going to do if they have nothing but their phone? CB said it could be done using any device...

[calebshank]

Does anyone know when College Board will release the exams? I took the calc exam and I am anxious to see how I did.

[brandonk]

How about you go tell college board to actually take responsibility for all their issues! We shouldn’t have to retake the exam just because of an issue on their end! Maybe tell them to actually extensively test the system first too! Why can’t they take time stamped documents? College Board is a joke!