Messed up on AP exam

[Anonymous]

I cannot understand how this happened? OP can you elaborate, and what test? Today was AP world, digital. Stats, and Japanese.

How did he enter wrong. This makes no sense for a senior who has taken multiple AP test. I'm not trying to be ugly, but are you sure he is telling the truth?

[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?

No. Nobody would know about it but him. My kid only took two AP exams, both as a senior. The university he was going to only knew about the score he sent to them and he only sent one because the other one wasn't high enough to get credit for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/score-reporting-services/cancel-scores

For those that have done this- see must cancel by no later than June 15 if doesn’t want scores sent to college. With all digital now, how soon do students get scores back? Before that? After?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Honestly? This was my first thought, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot understand how this happened? OP can you elaborate, and what test? Today was AP world, digital. Stats, and Japanese.

How did he enter wrong. This makes no sense for a senior who has taken multiple AP test. I'm not trying to be ugly, but are you sure he is telling the truth?

My DD also took one of these tests today. I am also just not getting how this could have happened. How is it even possible for him to enter things incorrectly in enough places to be at risk of getting a 1? Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he is just anxious and not thinking clearly? I just don't think what he claims is possible.

[Anonymous]

Your kid needs to learn to follow directions. Cancel the score and teach him to do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Op and yes, I think this is what happened! He said he folded it to have a better surface to write on (table surface was not smooth) and he’s definitely not lying bc it would make zero sense to lie. He is the one who is upset. He’s a great student who has always done well on tests, and yes, also generally anxious.

[Anonymous]

^^^ but he also said he was frantic at the end and tried to fix it by writing question four and it was actually the answer to question 5…so I doubt he will get credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^ but he also said he was frantic at the end and tried to fix it by writing question four and it was actually the answer to question 5…so I doubt he will get credit.

He will be fine! I am an AP teacher and have been a reader in the past, we do absolutely everything possible to find the points for the kids. The entire FRQ packet/booklet is scanned into the computer. If we are grading question 4, we scan through the whole document until we find work for question 4 if it doesn't show up on the page labeled "question 4".

I am 99% sure he will still get credit for his work. Regardless, there is nothing that can be done now.

[Anonymous]

If this was in the written section there's a good chance the reviewer will understand what happened and just read them where they were meant to be.

Also, my spouse took AP Chem sick and got a 2 and it all ended up fine. AP misses happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^ but he also said he was frantic at the end and tried to fix it by writing question four and it was actually the answer to question 5…so I doubt he will get credit.

He will be fine! I am an AP teacher and have been a reader in the past, we do absolutely everything possible to find the points for the kids. The entire FRQ packet/booklet is scanned into the computer. If we are grading question 4, we scan through the whole document until we find work for question 4 if it doesn't show up on the page labeled "question 4".

I am 99% sure he will still get credit for his work. Regardless, there is nothing that can be done now.

Not OP, but this is great to hear!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid needs to learn to follow directions. Cancel the score and teach him to do better.

Oh for Pete's sake. Stop it. People make mistakes.

[Anonymous]

This thread was helpful because I thought you had to choose to send your scores in now I see you choose to cancel them.

[Anonymous]

Assuming what he means is that he messed up the ordering of the long essay sections, it won't matter! They will go through and find the right answer as long as it is obvious what question he was answering. Even if you answered 2 as 3 and 3 as 2, you will get credit as long as it is apparent to the human reader. Unlike a multichoice, this isn't just scanned by AI/a computer and the human reading has discretion to find the answers anywhere in the booklet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assuming what he means is that he messed up the ordering of the long essay sections, it won't matter! They will go through and find the right answer as long as it is obvious what question he was answering. Even if you answered 2 as 3 and 3 as 2, you will get credit as long as it is apparent to the human reader. Unlike a multichoice, this isn't just scanned by AI/a computer and the human reading has discretion to find the answers anywhere in the booklet.

People are being SO helpful and nice and I really appreciate it! I think another layer is he tried to fix it by adding "question 4" (or 3, 5...) and mixed that up as well in his total panic as he had to get done. So I think because of this he still might get things wrong since he relabelled wrong? We will see and I hope that as you and some other posters say readers might see he was panicking and actually knew answers if it is obvious what was the answer to what. If not, it is definitely the lesson for the future.