by Adrian | May 23, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19
If you’re an impressionable, highly-strung, high achieving 15 to 18 year old, this AP ‘exam’ season has been stressful. I get it, I really do. I’ve been in this game (and a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher stakes version of it in the UK) for 30 years,...
by Adrian | May 19, 2020 | AP, CED 2019
That sounds like a Chicago song, but … … in various places on this site, you will see references in the AP sections to “17 TOPICS”, “6 UNITS” and “9 UNITS”. This can be confusing, so here’s the background to those...
by Adrian | May 14, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19
Of course, the question above assumes that you managed to upload files today, and/or that your re-take will go smoothly … but … ignoring that minor detail … … on the face of it, and on the basis of what we know right now, whatever your score is...
by Adrian | Apr 6, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19
A lot has happened since the College Board first announced that the 2020 AP Chemistry ’exam’ would be going ahead in a vastly modified format. At the beginning of this process there was an enormous amount of uncertainty. Some (perhaps most) of that uncertainty still...
by Adrian | Mar 24, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19, Entropy
The College Board should have cancelled the AP chemistry exam in 2020. Period. I’m going to write a longer post on that particular subject later, but for now, the fact that they have not cancelled the AP chemistry exam is already creating some prickly problems...
by Adrian | Mar 20, 2020 | 2020 Exam, AP, College Board, COVID-19
At approx. 11.15 AM this morning we got word from the College Board on the plans for the AP Chemistry exam in 2020 in the wake of COVID-19. Firstly the facts, in a nutshell, for AP Chemistry. No face-to-face exams in 2020 Instead, 45 minute, at home/online tests 2...
