Who's Kids' AP test also crashed?

I am so sorry. Will he try to retake the test?

My son has 2 tests next week. I just spent about 30 minutes watching a 90 minute video on how to take the AP test this year. DS counselor sent out other resources for getting set up for the testing and said to allow 2-3 hours to go over everything. There are so many details .....

Ugh, I am sorry. I hope your kid feels ok — that is terrible.

My oldest took one today and didn’t have any problems (I felt terrible possibly distracting them but did walk through the room just to make sure). I will say, I usually give my students a timed final exam, and our registrar’s office was still running them this exam period, but I gave my students a take-home because I was so worried about tech issues.

I’m sorry! My son takes his test on Wednesday. I’m so glad he only has 1 this year. I feel for the kids with multiple. The stress of just the hoping it works alright is almost as bad as the test.

I'm so sorry. APs were stressful enough without all the current adjustments to the format.

My daughter takes exams Thrus. and Fri. I will let her know! She was told to expect many issues. Our interenet isn't working well, so we are very worried about her even being able to complete the exam. And it stinks, because with the quarantine, we can't even go to a friends for her to take the exam.

My DD's is Friday also. Yikes!

DD and DS have both experienced internet disruptions. It’s gotten to the point that they use their phones as backup hotspots in case our cable WiFi goes down. . DD even submitted a screenshot to her professor to show that there was an outage in our area when it happened the first time.

Ugh, this makes me nervous. DS has his first ever AP test tomorrow afternoon. I already knew I wanted to be here "just in case" but now I'm glad I'm going to be home. Hopefully all goes well for him because he's taking on his birthday!

Oh, no!!! I don’t want to hear this! We go Thursday...will be watching this.

It's more that they tend to have them count for classes that are not core, so students may or may not need them depending on their major. As I recall (I used to be an advisor at UH) this was a particular problem with AP Lit, which counted for a class that could not be used as a humanities core for some reason. And for math, they'd accept the credit, but only if you could also pass the math placement test into a higher math than the one you had AP credit for. Same with music theory. Music majors were MAD when their AP theory score didn't count for anything if they'd forgotten it all and couldn't also test out of introductory theory.

I don't remember about the science courses, because honestly, there weren't too many music majors who came in with a 4 or 5 on AP Physics or Chemistry.

APUSH was the one that they did tend to get credit for. Seems like they could choose to exempt either the first or second semester of US History, but not both.

Texas schools really prefer students to do dual credit vs. AP if they can. That's an easy 1:1 match for core classes. I used to have kids from the suburbs come in as sophomores because they had so much dual-credit coursework. And then they and their parents were mad because a music degree takes four or even five years regardless of how many core credits you come in with, because of the necessity for sequential coursework.

My DD has 2 this week (and 2 next week). I am dreading it. My husband is super worried about our wifi. He purchased a 100 ft network cord, and has run it from our basement (where the modem is) to her room. So she will be directly connected, and he still wants us all off our devices. A part of me thinks I will probably need to leave the house when she takes the test, BUT I'm also worried if she has issues, I may need to hang around (although who knows what I could do).