Two dozen Green Canyon High School students in North Logan won’t get credit for AP tests they took last May as the tests were mistakenly destroyed in transit. ksltv.com/5071...
It’s worse considering the fact that the AP tests aren’t very cheap. It’s ~97 dollars to take one and I’m taking 3 AP classes this year. Im hoping something like this doesn’t happen to me either
This is wrong! These kids worked so hard throughout their high school years, some giving up many other high school activities so they could have the opportunity to take this college class at an affordable rate. Now without the credit, it potentially could have consequences on their college academic career. Why should the students be the one to suffer through this?
The money is nothing compared to the amount of hours and time spent in the class studying for an AP course. Usually your social life is cut into outside of school as well. Not a ton of extra curricula activities in school or out due to the course load students take on with these classes. Plus, a lot of students take these courses to keep college tuition prices down. $75 for the test compared to a state school $600 average per class
@@mrs._cat1007 well tbh he only took 2 ap classes, considering one is ap stats "a class for people who can't handle a real math class", and ap bio isn't even that hard.
@@brandontran6442 okay, but what does that have to do with the time and effort the students expended that they will never get back? If they had known in advance they would not receive college credit for these courses, of course they'd pick something else. Their agency was stolen by a greedy corporation.
@@brandontran6442 it's more about the teacher, a good teacher could make a hard class easy, while some teachers could make a relatively easy AP class hard.
The college board screwed my son a couple of years ago by requiring him to take the AP test at 3am. Who thinks clearly at 3am? My advice, if you can skip AP and enroll in early college. Less stress and usually the credit doesn’t hinge on one big test at the end of the year.
Oh! That was so terribly plan! I don’t understand why they couldn’t of just made like separate tests for each region! Like they already have done that!
this is awful. as an ap student, i know how hard i work to score well on my exams and if i did all that just not to receive a score… man id be pissed. and not to mention college board is RESPONSIBLE for providing these scores, which they clearly cannot do.
During my junior year on the very first day of AP exams, the bio and chemistry students were sweating bullets after a pipe burst during the middle of the exams because they thought that would invalidate the entire thing.
The College Board would have gone bankrupt long ago if they weren’t able to establish a binding monopoly on the ‘industry’ of administering tests. The fact that these exams are in the hands of a private company and not the department of education is kind of shocking and makes us look like a 3rd world nation
This is why I hate College Board as a whole organization. Everything about them is horrible. They have no motivation to improve because they are a monopoly on students.
In highschool my teacher "lost" one of my unit tests and forced me to take it again, it did annoy me much but I needed to stay on her good side for a recommendation letter for a few clubs. I can't imagine how these teens must be feeling right now, collegeboard is a sick joke.
As an AP Student myself, I say those students should get 5 automatically. It wasn't their fault the tests were destroyed. edit: nvm in retrospect that is a dumb idea. there are some good reasons why explained in the replies.
They should get an amount of money equivalent to the college class (and possibly semester) they will now have take. And compensation for the lost time and productivity.
@@gregorymalchuk272 First of all, he took ap bio, which only counts for an elective in most UC, "not sure for other universities", second of all he took ap stats, "a class for people who cannot a real math class", so unless he majoring in stats, there is very little difference of the amount of classes he must take.
@@thebrightestknight6714 You are not taking into account the money spent on the exam as well as the amount of effort. For all of that to go down the drain and being told to just "do it again"? I would much rather receive a 5 in best-case scenario or at least be financially compensated.
Bro the college board sucks. I feel really bad for them. A few years ago during the pandemic, some of my friends were scheduled to take AP exams. They primarily read braille and the college board told them that they wouldn’t be providing tactile graphics, which are images that one can feel with their hands. Their suggestion was for the students to have family members describe the graphs, but most were worried that that would affect their grade quite a bit. I think there was a complaint made and there was some agreement but I’m not exactly sure how that ended.
That's so frustrating, classic "why can't you get someone else to help you" ableism. Disappointing that such a large institution is so unaccommodating, but in my experience, the college board only exists to make money
@@gabrelas yeah I agree. Also this year when I took the AP exam, the tactile graphics were very inaccessible and I also primarily read braille, so that was fun.
CollegeBoard istg so I was supposed to take the SAT Aug 27 but they closed the center I was supposed to take it at. They then emailed me about a makeup test date 10 days before the makeup test date. I was sick that week and couldn’t take the makeup test, so I tried to cancel it because CollegeBoard stated that if you aren’t able to make it to the center on your makeup date, you can receive a full refund. But I didn’t get one. I paid $85 for the test + location change. I only got $60 back. They took the $25 as a cancellation fee… Wow so they cancel my test date, expect me to show up on a makeup test date, and if I don’t, I won’t get all my money back.
I recently cancelled because I was sick too, you explained why you couldn't make it, right? If so I would contact support, their website specifically says that if you are sick on test day you can reschedule without any fees Not surprised though
Same thing happened to me. I took AP french exam in may of this year and first off during the test, we couldn't complete the exam because half of the listening comprehension was deleted. Then for the oral part of it, the computer didn't register the first time, so I had to redo that section! Summer came along and my whole class received an email from College Board saying that they couldn't score our exams but we could have a projected score. For mine they said that they couldn't even score it and they didn't give me an explanation. My school tried to reach out to them and they said no comment! So now I have to redo the exam all the way in May again! College Board is not reliable at ALL!
Just goes to show that at the end of the day, college board could care less about students succeeding. If something isn't profitable for them, they won't do it
If that was me I’d be in tears. I forget things really easily so it takes a few nights before the exam to revise really hard only to forget it after the exam, so having to redo it would absolutely anger me.
College board should give all the students free college credit for their irresponsibility and wasting the money they paid to take these pointless tests!
Unfortunately it’s not the place of the College Board to grant the credit-the student’s chosen college/university grants the credit based on the test score.
This is rlly devastating, I mean… the thing with these stressful tests. Not just because they’re long and boring and you have to sit through that silent 1-3hrs while you’re forcing your hand to write write write… But usually after the test (even a day after) a lot of students just forget all they have learned in ‘a flash’ and move onto whatever’s next… ik tests are designed to show how the students performing but it also has its negatives, with it being so stressful, most students forget (mostly) whatever they’ve learnt after taking the exam/test… and to think now they have to take it again… uh oh
It's been a long, long time since I've been in high school, but UPS would have been doing me a favor by destroying my SAT exams before they were graded.
I faced similar disappointment lately. However is not because of shipping test papers. So here is why. So i sat on the may/june Cambridge igcse exam, i was under poe route. It is the english (first language english 0500) results of mine that disappointed me so much, that i cant just let it go of it, up to this point im writing this. My school collected all evidence from me, they had everything checked before submitting to Cambridge, and i was predicted to get an A for my english. The results are out on late august, and i am awarded an E grade for english by Cambridge, my school submitted an enquiry of results to the school but they did not change my grade. My school gave me a choice of going to the next stage which is to appeal, but they will cost additional fee, and they did not guarantee a change of grade, so my parents did not want to go for it. So instead, they offered me to retake the exam next year, which means i will have to answer and do the papers hand written. I am against of retaking the exam because i do not want to hand write the exam (as poe is better you get the chance to type the exam). I ask my school (which is the centre) for transparency how Cambridge marked my papers, but they said that Cambridge did not return them how my paper is mark. This is so disappointing, i dont know on what based of fact i am awarded an E. The part even worse is that i cant use my english first language igcse as a prove of english competency in university…. But something odd is, in my other subjects that i took, which is computer science, additional maths, extended maths, physics, and chemistry, Cambridge awarded me with A* for all the 5 subjects in mentioned. Do you think someone with an E grade of english first language can understand the questions on the question paper of the other 5 subjects? The school adds a disappointment by ending the support to change my E english grade…. This E grade haunts me days and night….
Bruh, everyone knows that every after test you take, you just basically forget what you have studied. So for the college board to think that retaking the exam would still yield the same result is appalling. It was unfaur fir the students when the board is the one who screwed up
They should’ve given them an automatic Pass and the option to re-take for a higher test score instead of forcing them to retake when it was a mistake on their end
That's horrible. AP classes are my biggest regret. Totally unnecessary loss of sleep and joy. Extra stress in high school just to get a little ahead in college. It's better to take your time in college and just focus in high school classes.
I feel bad for these kids... the CollegeBoard lost my friend's AP Physics 1 MCQ and offered him either a special retake or an automatic 4/5. Guess what he took... he later told me with the MCQ included in his grade he would've gotten a 2 since he failed miserably on it!
Yea those tests got utterly annihilated in the transit to the college board. Man, they fought hard! I hope the other papers survived, but hats off to the loved ones of those papers. Get destroyed, AP exam!
Poor kids, i took 3 AP tests last year in my senior year but honestly I wouldn’t have cared much, I was never enthusiastic about HS, but to those who put in all their effort just for them to be destroyed i really hope they are compensated
this is why I don't go to college, imagine studying and spending so much money only for them to mess up and lose progress that valuable, I already had my data lost once, I'm not going back until they can be more organized.
@@CT-rm1jk yest but the information that got lost was in the hands of a college administration, somehow they got lost and I had to re-enter everything. I stopped attending as their set up was so awful, I had to get a parking ticket every day just to attend
College board is a monopoly, we need to start regulating colleges and everything that is involved with them, college has become more of a business than an educational institution.
L College Board. I took like 5 AP courses in high school and those tests are no joke. Shame on them for making the students retake those exams due to negligence
This is even more infuriating considering none of my AP credits even carried into college. So the kids have to take TWO tests for nothing! EDIT: If any worried parents or high schoolers are reading this, I went to a private university, so public schools may have more leniency with AP, but the best thing to do is DUAL ENROLLMENT! Screw AP. Your school may try to sell it to you as mine did bc they get more money for the more students enrolled in AP and can use it on grants and stuff, but so many colleges will look at that and say "that's cute. take it again." Dual enrollment ensures you are getting college credit from a named college.
how can they compensate you with a score if they never graded your test? Are you supposed to just GET a 5? I completely understand the frustration and they should give you another test and refund your test fee anyhow, but giving you a score sounds ridiculous.
Can nobody do the right thing? Does nobody do justice and judgement anymore? How frustrating it is when people have power to do what is right, and then not do it.
As a student who has taken an AP test I know how hard those can be. To just say oh well there’s nothing more we can do is the most annoying thing I’ve heard. I think those students should receive automatic 3s which 3 is the minimum score to get the passing grade. This is some bs
The students should be compensated for sure, but they shouldn’t receive a score. It’s doing something without any proof of work. Compensate each student for their time and money for classes and prep exams.
Oh God more AP test controversy. I still wonder why it still exists. It's awful and I was so foolish taking the test last year for the first time when I warned about it before. They should have their non-profit status revoked.
why don't they just skip the AP tests and do dual enrollment? In my state you just pay for transportation and books, state covers tuition and fees. Less hassle than the AP tests.
