Awful Things About AP Exams in 60 Seconds 

Oh, and let’s not forget the mess that was online AP Exams…

And yet, College Board considers itself “nonprofit.”

Advanced Placement exams? More like Accelerated Payment exams

Because of the pandemic, AP Tests got cancelled. However, I was taking AP Computer Science Principles, and the way that class works is you have this project at the end of first and second semester, and both count towards your AP Test scores, too. However, with Corona, they made it so the AP Test score is simply from the 2 projects. Now, these projects were also turned in class and graded by our teacher as part of our grade for the actual class as well as being turned in for the AP Exam. I got an A on both of the projects by my teacher. AP Exam Score: 2. Fucking 2. When I followed all the directions, met all the requirements, and did extra on both projects. And they didn't give any sort of explanation. Absolute fucking bullshit.

AP classes are so addictive, I will cry about my ap physics class for hours and then next year sign up for 3 more aps

College board: *exploiting teenage stress since 1899*

Collegeboard and the word "expensive" go really well together

You’d think that people getting an F average on a test would tell college board to change the curriculum but it’s normalized to get those low scores…

I took only one ap exam because I plan on doing IB my junior and senior years (I am not in the USA). That AP exam was AP Seminar, and for those of you who have taken it, you will know the exam has a decent amount of writing. So on with the story, I ride my bike to school, and on this particular day (day of the examination), it had just rained the night before so the road was wet, and I had to swerve because someone was approaching me. Because of this I fell and broke my arm as well as my tooth, I got up and tried to collect myself, I had considered turning back and going home to address my injuries. but I realized I needed to inform my teacher that I need to take the exam at another time, so I dragged myself and my broken bike to school with my ears buzzing and unable to see clearly. I made it to school and took a minute to straighten myself, and walked up to the teacher in charge of the exam and told him about my injuries, and he could visibly see my broken tooth. He told me I wouldn't be getting my money back if I did not take the exam, and it was too late for me to go to the nurse because the exam was going to begin in 2 minutes. so I walked in, picked up my pen with my broken right arm, and wrote for 90 minutes through unbearable pain. By the end, I was on the verge of passing out. I then went to the doctor's and was all healed after a month. the exam was 50% of the grade, and in the course, I scored a 3. among my A's, this 3 was the proudest grade I ever earned.

Students: **try to live a normal life without spending much money** College board: *"And I took that personally"*

Middle schoolers be like: *This information is not valid yet I must prepare for the future*

Do not take AP classes, take dual enrollment!!! Most colleges don't restrict that has hard, they're mostly free/cheaper with a community college, and you can get your AA!

im so glad I live in europe lmao watching videos like this makes me realise how different our school systems are. we don't have anything like AP classes or valedictorians or class presidents. it all seems so stressful and unnecessary, not even going to mention the fact that you have to pay for an exam??

College boards really be playing monopoly with free cards

The education system gets more corrupt the older we get. They swear that it's important and very essential but make it Hella hard to pursue.💯

This is why I encourage high schoolers to do dual enrollment classes instead of AP classes. They're easier, cheaper, and you automatically get the college credit. 100% less stress especially if you take classes at a community college.

1. THEY EXIST

I could spend that $920 on a Big Mac-

I cannot believe your channel has grown so much. I was here when you had like 10k posting the SAT prep and advice videos. Congrats!

I took 7 APs my senior year. I’m still not even sure why I pressured myself into it, it wasn’t my parents or teachers. Don’t do it kids it’s not worth it

Ironically, I should be doing my AP lit homework

Interviewer: so what do u know? Me: mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Me, who just took my AP exam today: 👁👁

One must also consider that AP Exams are cheaper than the actually college class. APUSH is cheaper than a US history course at most colleges. Even considering the fact that some colleges don’t accept AP, this fact is still important to consider.

The best part of living in Indiana is that AP classes for core classes (math, English, science) are paid for by the state. I’ve only ever spend money on one exam and it was APWH

At this point I really appreciate my parents choosing Canada over USA

I love how even if somehow you didn't know what an AP exam was, he still makes you hate it and he didn't talk about the outrageous levels of material that's covered on each one.

At least they got rid of the cancellation fee for this year (or so I've been told)

“AP exams cost a lot of money” Me, an Arkansan that got her exams paid by the state: no poor babies

AP Exams and Colleges and College Boards: we're something called "best friends"

Thanks, I’m going into my first year of high school, and now this has made me really scared of how much of a money drain this might be

You’re growing like crazy bro. 4k subs in like 2 days. Insane. Keep it up!

im suddenly really glad i was too stupid for ap classes in highschool.....

Can we just appreciate the lovely art of the video? Really elevates it visually ;)

They'll make the packets unnecessarily large by putting like one question on a page

This video is so good! I can't believe how much money the colleges charge just to take a test! I didn't know a lot of the things that you said in this video, but I'm glad I know now! This is so amazing, and keep up the good work!😁💗

Title: 60 seconds Actual vid: 84 seconds Don't worry about video lengths Shiv, longer == better.

Me who is a middleschooler: Wait wha-

This actually made me feel better about myself for not taking AP classes this year and not wasting my parents money.

My dad took a lot of AP classes in High School, but only his history credit ended up counting

-OMG, I have been BINGE-WATCHING your videos and they are SO fricken relatable!!! -Thank you SO much for taking the time out of your days to make these videos for everyone!!! 😁😁😁 We REALLY appreciate it, kind sir!!!!!!

$900 compared to how many thousands of dollars I would be spending on the classes themselves plus textbooks at college? Yeah I'll take AP exams any day of the week

My High School was a College Prep HS so no students payed for any thing and was told that we could also work on something with the school with taking another AP exam that the school didn’t offer a class for. They just wanted people who really wanted to take the classes. But coming from someone who took one in my 11th grade year and 4 on my senior year, only 1 would of matter for my major (CS BS) so I stressed my life in 11th grades with a class I didn’t need to take (and while trying to prepare for my SAT) (and in the end getting a 2 on the AP and getting a “meh” on my SAT) and then 12th grade, stressed about my 4 AP (with other issues regarding one class cause the teacher was pregnant and left for 4 months and then tried to cramp everything) with then the test prep of how the test would be formatted being thrown out the window due to COVID interrupting my year and CB trying to scramble around on how to work with the issue, coming to the online route (which is another issue to go off on). For majority of the people I known getting 1s and 2s (with me included). So I’m the end I stressed myself for 2 years for no reason cause it wasn’t even going to help that much anyway. 😐😫😮‍💨

Thank you... I rlly needed this.... my AP exam is this Friday and I'm like freaking out and stressed about it. This just made me feel a hundred times better 4 some reason haha ❤️

Its actually one big scam. Thats why i'm quit gonna quit AP next semester

Me: *cries in derivatives*

I love how this pops up in my recommended right after I finished my AP French exam

I love how you used USC as an example specifically since that's the school I desperately want to go to- thankfully im on the right track for now

This makes me appreciate my university and high school a lot more... My ap exams were free and there was no limit on ap class for my univeristy.

Imagine paying something called the “international fee” 😭 Also I Love your content!

I stopped caring about AP it’s a time of waste like most colleges don’t even accept the credit. It’s B.S haha

Yup the price is absolutely insane. I’m so grateful that my school gets financial aid and our counselor said I could because I’m taking three and we CANNOT spend over $300 on tests

Middle schoolers: L O S I N G M O T I V A T I O N

YES! I was starting to miss you!

its so amazing how you come up with short but so reletable facts

Wow, your videos are so great. Just discovered your channel. I'm going to binge watch, lol.

You have been preparing a bunch of us for the future 60 seconds at a time 😄

living in Florida I did benefit from not having to pay to take AP exams in highschool but the downside is that half of the AP classes I got credits for weren’t applicable when I got to college. Better to take honors classes and rack up the easy A’s for your GPA.

I come here every year to rewatch and cry

I really like how there are drawings! Really cool!

Bruh my high school pays us to take the exams

I feel bad for my parents when they had to pay for my brother's 15 AP exams. Fortunately, they only have to pay for probably 3 for me.

I’d much rather pay 115 for a single class than a couple thousand in college so…

commenting for engagement, this video truly deserves it.

Man, did this video hit hard as an AP student

"Two and a half hour test" **Looks at my last AP exam which was 45 minutes long** Ha ha...funny.

Ah yes, AP exams. No joke, I freaked out on my AP Euro exam last year and got a 2. (also it was the stupid shortened DBQ thingie). Also, you finally hit 100k subscribers! That's amazing, and congratulations! I love your content, and I'm proud to say that I've been watching your videos since before 15k. :)

I’m glad that my school doesn’t have many AP classes. Instead they do a thing called dual-enrollment where you can take community college classes at the school and get both high-school credits and college credits from the community college at the same time. While it is about the same price as a AP test, dual enrollment was so much better because the classes were much easier than AP classes, you got credit based on your grade spread out through a whole semester/year rather than on one single test, and credits transferred much easier (at least in-state) to other colleges since you were seen as just a transfer student from a community college. Some people, including myself, were even able to get an associates degree while still in high school.

When you're filipino and thought AP meant Araling Panlipunan

I am so thankful that I live in NC, because NC is one of the few states that completely covers the cost of AP exams

This popped up in time- it’s coming this Monday 🥲

This video popped into my recommended the day before my AP exam Hopefully I'll get a good grade on it

lowkey feel spoiled now because I never realized how expensive ap exams were because my school district pays for all of ours

My high school paid for my exams and I took two years at a community college so them accepting the credits wasnt a problem at all. I did have to take one of my English exams on the floor though since they didn't have enough desks. That was a whole bucket of fun

Well now I’m questioning everything I’ve ever done and all the hard work I’ve done. Thanks for the existential crisis

God, the early registration in November really screwed me over my senior year. I was at a boarding school my first semester and had no idea about the early registration, and I wasn't expecting to find myself in any AP classes until I came back home for my second semester. I didn't really *want* to be in those classes, but I was semi forced to take them. Regardless, I tried registering for the exam, but they said it was too late for me to register. And I couldn't ever sign into my College Board account, and I got little to no help from my teachers or CB staff. I was essentially told I couldn't take the exams and that was final. Funny enough, the pandemic hit during that second semester. My teachers said I wasn't required to go to class anymore, since I wasn't going to take the test and all they were going to focus on for the rest of the year was test prep, so I was dismissed early. Luckily I got a refund for my tests since I couldn't actually take them. (At least... I *think* I got refunded...)

I took the AP Environmental test my senior year (online in 2020) and never got my score or my money back..

This is why I’m very very lucky my school pays for the exams. If they didn’t I would be a lot more stressed out.

During freshman year (I'm a senior now) a bunch of teachers coerced me into taking AP classes. I said no and they still recommended me. They set me up to fail because now Im at a C or D average (I used to have B average grades).

100k congrats buddy.

I can’t remember why but my AP exams only could go towards my GEs (gen ed classes) and not my actual major 😪

1:02 me who probably got a 2 on my psychology exam this year 😍

The hits just keep on coming🙃😭

So glad my school district covers the AP exam costs, College Board actually sucks.

Look at this ✨ *art* ✨

"They're still making a huge profit by charging so much money for an exam that millions of students will end up taking." Of course they are, it's a college-level course. Just one college course could cost several thousand dollars, so 8 classes for less than a thousand sounds like a win even if you only pass one of your exams.

And this is exactly why I cancelled my AP exams a week before I was supposed to take them

Not to mention last years exams were just really scuffed because there was no multiple choice for a lot of the exams, so either you got the short/long answer right or you made a few mistakes and it cost you the exam

The online ones were a complete mess... I took the AP Macroeconomics exam, answered 7/22 letters and got a 3. That should NOT be possible

They're not as expensive as the classes' equivalent in college...

I wish that I could have taken my AP environment science in the spring! We have out exam in less than a week, and if I learned the crap in the spring instead of being done in December I could probably remember my crap way better! I’m incredibly anxious about it because not a lot of the stuff stuck with me and even though I do reviews with the class i still am nervous!

I took my AP Lang yesterday, I never wanted to cry so much

Cmon let’s get Shiv to 100k!!!

YES HE"S BACK

For some reason my HISTORY class requires an essay for each unit test about the unit and your stance on it.

at my school we have an AVID program that pays for all that stuff but it still sucks so bad for the kids that aren't in there

Me, with my first AP exam in 2 days, my second in a week:

I'm taking my exams just to scam my school into letting me commit truancy. ... Let me explain. I probably won't get much college credit because I want to go to Columbia, but my school refunds fees for passing. The only real attendance incentive at my school, other than punishments for absurd numbers of unexcused absences, is having to take semester exams. Usually, I am the person who goes to school sick and will do anything to stay under three absences so I can get my exemption because it usually hurts your grade. AP exams make me automatically exempt, and since all my classes are AP this year, I can miss as much school as I want so long as I don't go over the legality limit. I will almost certainly fail the AP chemistry, but it's okay. I can skip school.

This was about 4-5 years ago but my highschool had a program that if you signed up for the AP class, you got to take the exam for free, which I thought was more common place but apparently I got lucky.

This man has taught any of us more than school ever will