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  1. I just received an email from the College Board about a change for the second week of AP tests. There were many students who could not submit their completed work for a number of reasons, including the "submit" button just not working. Here's info about changes to the submission process: Submitting Exam Responses We share the deep disappointment of students who were unable to submit responses. Beginning Monday, May 18, and continuing through the makeup window, there will be a backup email submission process for browser-based exams. This option will only be available for students who were not able to submit in the standard process—and they must then email their responses immediately following their exam. These students will see instructions about how to email their response on the page that says, "We Did Not Receive Your Response." The email address that appears on this page will be unique to each student. Any student testing between May 18–22 who can't successfully upload their response through the exam platform or send it to us by email, will need to request a makeup exam. To protect the security and validity of exams, we're unable to accept submissions from students who tested May 11–15. However, these students can feel confident that the email option will be in place for them during the makeup exams. Email submissions will not be available for the World Language exams.
  2. There are still a lot of moving parts to the AP Exams, which is frustrating and stressful. Here is a handy document that has lots of info--some of it extra info that was not communicated or clear before. It says it's for educators, but as far as I can tell, you do not have to log in to view this: In-Depth FAQ for Educators. Here are a couple of things that have changed or been clarified: Students CAN use two devices if they plan to handwrite. There are two different ways to upload (text file or image). It will be important for students to practice using the demo, because the upload formats are very specific based on whether you are uploading a complete file or uploading page by page. See 2.1.2 and 2.1.5 and 2.5.2 There may be more sections addressing this. (not in the FAQ) There will be no line numbers on the AP English passages. This is helpful info since some students like to include line numbers in their essays, and some may be planning to use those line numbers as they take notes to plan their essays on a separate piece of paper. Per Susie Bonsey, Director of AP English Literature and Composition and Aubrey Ludwig, Director of AP English Language and Composition via the AP Teacher Community forum: "To ensure that the exams can be accessed on a wide variety of student devices and the passages can maintain a consistent appearance across variable screen sizes, there will be no line numbers for the passages on the AP English exams." While the College Board has discouraged students from calling the help line if they are not getting emails, one of my students did call yesterday and sent me this: "I just called the college board and apparently in my account I wasn't subscribed to receiving their emails/updates on AP stuff. So that's fixed now." In case you've been looking in your junk/spam folders, be aware that the email sender name for some (maybe all) recent AP emails may be: "Advanced Placement Program" (rather than a "College Board" title ). So you may want to search that way in your junk folder. Some students with gmail addresses are also reporting that previously "invisible" emails ARE showing up if they look in their gmail "All Mail" folder. I was not getting some AP exam teacher emails, and after calling the CB and reconfirming that "yes, I did check my profile page . . ." I was told there appeared to be nothing wrong with my email/account and they would "elevate" the issue. I started getting emails the very next day. If your student is not getting emails, you might consider calling. Just be prepared to multi-task. It'll probably be a long wait. 😉
  3. I updated the link in the original post, and here it is again: https://globalmeet.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1302024&tp_key=73070ccd21 I'm not sure why it stopped working. I hope this one works for you. If not, try going here first and scrolling down the the "register" button: https://woodinville.nsd.org/n/~board/whs-news/post/preparing-for-ap-exams-register-now-for-college-board-webinar-set-for-april-16-400pm Both links work for me now. I hope they do for you! ☀️
  4. There will be a parent webinar "Helping Your Student Prepare for AP Exams" this Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Here is a link where you can register for that: https://globalmeet.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1302024&tp_key=73070ccd21
  5. Here is a link to last night's webinar about the AP exam: https://globalmeet.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1299211&tp_key=56f627d7d4
  6. It's my understanding that students will access the test through their College Board "My AP" log in (https://myap.collegeboard.org/login). This is where students set up their account this year and entered information needed to sign up for an exam with a local school. So I believe that homeschoolers will access their exams there--as will public schoolers.
  7. Trevor Packer just held a webinar about the AP exams, and the recording of that will be available tomorrow. These will be the exam questions for AP English: AP Lit, Q2 Prose Essay AP Lang, Q2 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Some changes of note: AP Calc test takers will have to choose either AB or BC. If they take BC, they will not get an AB sub-score. Teachers will receive copies of the exams approximately two weeks after they've been taken. Exams will be graded online and there will be TWO graders/scorers (rather than just one in the past). Students can use their cell phones, iPads, computers. They can type their responses or handwrite and then take a cellphone shot and upload their exam. The revised exam dates for the 45-minute, online, at-home exams:
  8. The 2020-21 Common App prompts will be the same as 2019-20. You can find the prompts here: https://www.commonapp.org/apply/essay-prompts.
  9. Per Trevor Packer, who is the Senior Vice President of Advanced Placement and Instruction at College Board:
  10. It's all a guess at this point, but my guess is that the written work will not include a synthesis essay (super hard to pull off online since students have to toggle to sources). Based on the online resource videos that are being offered for Lang next week, it looks like the focus will be on rhetorical analysis. Based on this description: "Explain how an argument demonstrates understanding of an audience’s beliefs, values, or needs." There will be live online review sessions for the various AP courses/exams offered beginning next week, and the first week's schedule for those can be found HERE.
  11. Most of my students have entered their state followed by the words Home School. For example: North Carolina Home School. This worked for all but one student, and she had to call the College Board for help.
  12. There are two kinds of join codes: a class join code and an exam-only code. Students who are taking an AP class from PAH or another provider will enter both codes in their College Board account. Those who are self studying will receive an "exam-only" code from the school where they will be testing--and they will enter that one code in their CB account.
  13. I think the Sept 4 date is a suggested date to begin contacting the College Board to ask about possible test sites. We have never ever found this process helpful ourselves. We've just called around to local public and private schools and asked for the AP Coordinator and inquired that way. The AP Ledger always worked best for us to find local school possibilties. All you have to enter is the AP class name and city, and you will see a list of schools that have an approved syllabus for that class. That's usually a good indicator that they will be hosting the test for their own students. I have seen different registration deadline info/recommendations published, including HERE. And there is still a lot of incorrect "spring registration" info floating around in cyberspace, so, sadly, some folks who do a quick Google search will be in for a shock when they start inquiring about exam registration in the spring. 😳 I think early October is the recommendation for homeschoolers to have secured an exam seat. Registration deadlines are going to vary, school to school. In the past, some schools registered their students and closed registration way before the CB guidelines. So jumping on this in September seems like the way to go. I am sure that there will be a lot of stressed out AP Coordinators at high schools across the country. It's not just the exam registration timing that has changed. AP Coordinators are helping teachers set up--and troubleshoot--the new MyAP class resources. I imagine many AP Coordinators are feeling a bit overwhelmed. I know a lot of AP English teachers are feeling that way--since so much is changing in the framework and test rubrics for those classes. I don't think that CB or a school will collect your $ before you actually find a school that agrees that your student can test there, and then you will pay the school directly for the test as part of the registration process. So no money will change hands until you actually find and confirm a test site.
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