Messed up on AP exam

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What test?

If it is important to have a score— contact College Board and file I believe it is called a discrepancy report. They will likely respond with three options: cancel, retake, or do nothing.

If kid wants to retake, they can probably do it the week after next when a retake exam is already scheduled for kids who had conflicts today/ were sick. Am

If score isn’t important — then do nothing.

If retake is an option at added expense, that would be a reasonable option if credit is needed. Better than my idea of waiting a year.

[Anonymous]

No. My kid didn't even study for his.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ds completely messed up on his AP exam. He thinks he got the answers all right but did not write them in the right spots!! I have no idea how that can even happen but he came home so defeated. By the time he realized his mistake it was too late. So he might actually get a 1. Does it matter for a senior, beyond getting no college credit?

Or his imagination is playing tricks on him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ds completely messed up on his AP exam. He thinks he got the answers all right but did not write them in the right spots!! I have no idea how that can even happen but he came home so defeated. By the time he realized his mistake it was too late. So he might actually get a 1. Does it matter for a senior, beyond getting no college credit?

Sh!t happens. Painful lesson.

[Anonymous]

Who cares
Tell him it’s great he figured out what he did wrong that’s the important thing to take away
These scores do not matter

[Anonymous]

He's lying. He bombed the test. This wrong order thing is bogus.

Is this lying thing new? Or has it always been a problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poor thing! I'm sorry. The most important thing is his GPA, OP. Tell him not to worry.

His GPA will not be affected and I am not talking to him about it further to not rub salt on wounds. What would be the upside to not scoring the exam though? Any?

We cancelled 2 scores out of 8. Kept the 4 and 5s. He also declined to even take his senior year AP exams. In total he took 12 AP courses. No big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. My kid didn't even study for his.

WTF!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poor thing! I'm sorry. The most important thing is his GPA, OP. Tell him not to worry.

His GPA will not be affected and I am not talking to him about it further to not rub salt on wounds. What would be the upside to not scoring the exam though? Any?

We cancelled 2 scores out of 8. Kept the 4 and 5s. He also declined to even take his senior year AP exams. In total he took 12 AP courses. No big deal.

He has only ever had 5s and 4s before and one 3. But not sure cancelling makes sense since it's senior year. You cancelled Junior year ones, right?

[Anonymous]

Is he talking about the FRQs? This year they had blank booklets with pages numbered “question 1” “question 1” “question 2” “question 2” (2 pages for each)

It would be very easy for kids to just use one page per question, therefore finishing question six on a page labeled question three. Readers have been instructed to scan the entire document to search for the solution to question for even if it’s not on the paper that says question four.

Don’t cancel anything, he may be fine.

[Anonymous]

I thought you only send colleges the scores you want to send? I could have sworn I read this. Is that not true? (My oldest is only a junior.)

[Anonymous]

When I worked in a testing center, telling you if we saw a score come through at 20-30%, we would try to chase the student down before they exited. If we got a hold of them, we would make them figure it out and adjust all their bubble answers down a row, or whatever it was. We just proctored this process and it was fixed in minutes.

If AP can be contacted with your concern, they’d know really quickly. I don’t speak for AP, don’t know if they care. But again, it could be obvious …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you located? My DD has had all her APs on the Chromebook this year. There hasn't been a paper/pencil option on any exam at their school.

+ 1. But not Chromebook
Black book couldn’t be downloaded on chromebooks at our school. We had to send ours in with a different laptop

[Anonymous]

Only thing I can think of it affecting (besides not getting the credit) is the AP Scholar status.

[Anonymous]

I f’d my own AP classes for a couple reasons
And here I am today …top of my adult class

He will be fine. Better to get some oopsies out young