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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The college board site says they start releasing results on July 8th.

Given past experience, that doesn't mean ALL results will be available first thing on July 8th.

I have kids taking a few starting this week. One kid is really ill with Flu B so has anti-virals and anything else we can pump him with, to be well enough to take them.[/quote]

There are make-up days at the end of the exam period.  Don’t take it sick [/quote]

Agree![/quote]

The make ups are not the same test and [b]my kid heard they can have harder FRQs[/b] so be careful. [/quote]

That would be deemed discrimination and not ethical.  :roll: [/quote]

In 2020, the makeup exam had crazy hard questions.  My kid shared them with me when she got home and despite having a graduate degree in the fields I thought they were hard questions.[/quote]

And yet you didn't see the original test questions, so how can you possible judge if they were in fact harder, or equally difficult? [/quote]

Not PP but there are scenarios where kids might sit for both the original and makeup exam.  For example, if scores for the first exam need to be cancelled for some reason (eg a fire alarm in the middle of the test), those students would see the questions on both the original and the makeup exam.

My own child will be in that exact circumstance for an AP test they took earlier this week.
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And what that shows is only what is harder for one specific student, whose knowledge and skills may lean towards one test rather than the other. They could equally consider the make up test to be easier. I think you're trying to reinforce the idea the make ups are harder when there is zero evidence to that and also it would create a pattern of discrimination against the later test takers, as has already been noted on this thread. It’s just BS, basically. The tests are "different" and that is all.[/quote]

I’m not disputing that the test are equal, I’m just saying that it is possible for a student to see both the original and the makeup test.  The previous poster was quibbling that it isn’t possible to see both tests and that is not correct.  Make-up tests are largely for students who missed the first test, but there are clear scenarios where a student might sit for the entirety of both if the scores from the first test are invalidated/cancelled through no fault of the student.[/quote]

That's fair. My DD is taking AP Psych tomorrow and my DS will be doing it on a make up day. If they remember the questions, we'll also have an actual comparison to make. [/quote]

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