Dec 24, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19 |
Let’s not bury the lead here. If you thought the AP Chemistry exam in 2020 was a zero integrity farce (spoiler alert, it was), it’s going to be much, MUCH worse in 2021. So what’s going on? Having sanctioned cheating by allowing kids to take the 2020...
Jul 20, 2020 | 2020 Exam, College Board, COVID-19 |
A couple of weeks ago I wrote to Jamie Benigna (Director AP Chemistry Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment) to ask about an error that I spotted in one of the questions used in the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020. Here’s an extract from the email that...
May 23, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19 |
If you’re an impressionable, highly-strung, high achieving 15 to 18 year old, this AP ‘exam’ season has been stressful. I get it, I really do. I’ve been in this game (and a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher stakes version of it in the UK) for 30 years,...
May 14, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19 |
Of course, the question above assumes that you managed to upload files today, and/or that your re-take will go smoothly … but … ignoring that minor detail … … on the face of it, and on the basis of what we know right now, whatever your score is...
Apr 18, 2020 | 2020 Exam, College Board, COVID-19 |
If you are a high school senior preparing to take the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020, you may want to think again. There are already a whole host of reasons NOT to take the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020. On top of the logic outlined in that post, in...
Apr 6, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19 |
A lot has happened since the College Board first announced that the 2020 AP Chemistry ’exam’ would be going ahead in a vastly modified format. At the beginning of this process there was an enormous amount of uncertainty. Some (perhaps most) of that uncertainty still...
