by Adrian | Jul 20, 2020 | 2020 Exam, College Board, COVID-19
A couple of weeks ago I wrote to Jamie Benigna (Director AP Chemistry Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment) to ask about an error that I spotted in one of the questions used in the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020. Here’s an extract from the email that...
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 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 18, 2020 | 2020 Exam, College Board, COVID-19
If you are a high school senior preparing to take the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020, you may want to think again. There are already a whole host of reasons NOT to take the AP Chemistry ‘exam’ in 2020. On top of the logic outlined in that post, in...
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...
