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This is your first go-around, I take it?

1. Same-day exams are a problem, precisely due to delays during the morning exam, which lead to a very short or a non-existent break before the afternoon one. Yes, I believe it DOES affect exam performance, and there should be a declared minimum length of break between two back-to-back exams!!! As it stands right now, it's a little fuzzy and discretion is given to the onsite testing coordinator. Usually, since they want the least hassle possible, they tend to try to shuffle off everyone into their afternoon exams, and a student would need to be very persuasive to get a testing coordinator to approve a make-up date in the situation you describe. Which I don't think is fair, at all! I entirely sympathize with your daughter, OP. For illness, I believe you need a doctor's note to schedule the make-up, so if you know a doctor who can write one, maybe your kid, if her first exam runs so late, can just walk out of school, and you request the make-up for the second exam with the doctor's note.

2. Life goes on separately from College Board exams, unfortunately. My kids' high schools were/are each quite understanding about late work and requesting test make-ups for AP exam absences. Indeed, MCPS gives excused absences on AP exam days, so that kids don't get zeros when they miss instruction on those days. It is understood that students need to keep studying for their other classes, hand in their assignments and take their tests at some point.

3. We declared a moratorium on extra-curricular activities last weekend and this week. My DD has missed a number of horseback riding classes. If she gets marked down in her semester assessment, we don't care. [b]She has missed a number of her private instrumental lessons, and her teacher is very understanding. She's part of a selective youth orchestra that limits the number of absences to 2 per concert cycle, so we declared her "sick" for the last rehearsal. I'm sure lots of other high schoolers were somehow "sick" that day :-)[/b] The concert is next weekend, so the conductor isn't happy, but AP exams are more important! In the house, DD is exempt from chores, laundry, pet care, etc. We make all her meals and baby her so she can focus on her exams, like we did for our son.

I hope your kid did well despite adverse circumstances, OP. 
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We have the same instrument teacher I believe, and mine hasn't seen him in at least a month, and only had virtual classes sporadically. First, there were two weeks with 5 exams per week, and then there was last week with all the AP exams. She's very fortunate that this week she has just one AP test, (plus a few writing assignments and one test in non-AP classes) and she's basically done with the tests. She took her break from youth orchestra with a similar policy to cope with her finals weeks, and went both last week and this one. The conductor seemed quite sad and puzzled that the entire band instrument section didn't turn up, and there were only a handful of strings in each of the sections. Their concert is this upcoming weekend, but IMO, it's their own damn fault that they're so tone deaf, when the Venn diagram of the kids in orchestra and kids taking a lot of APs is basically a circle. The kids would have all appreciated at least a week where they say 'Your education is the priority, go study for the tests or go to bed early so you can kill it in those tests'.

OP, what you're describing is quite normal. One of DD's friends had 10 minutes between her morning and afternoon tests, which she used to go to the bathroom. So like yours, she didn't really eat anything the whole day. The non-AP teachers have carried on with their teaching, and assigned assignments and tests, although these kids do have a little extra time to turn everything in. The ridiculous one to me is the AP pre-calc teacher who has carried on teaching the non-tested Unit 4 through both weeks, and has scheduled a test or quiz next Monday.

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