If they moved them back to fall / late summer, kids would've had more time to prepare, and the full tests could've been administered so the credits would've been given fairly. I assume the reason they aren't doing this is because it would be impossible to schedule a traditional AP reading for the teachers to grade the tests, but they could do it remotely as they will be doing with this (schedule readings on the weekends to be done remotely? they are only a few days long anyway).
With that being said, if I was still in High School, i'd probably be pleading with my AP coordinator to let me take more tests because of the advantage... but I digress (and I doubt college board would have let me anyway). darn it. one year later and no physics in college.
0: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...
It's about time we realize that education was never about merit in the first place.
The kids that couldn’t pass without cheating will fail their coursework (some will cheat all the way through college, but that has always happened). The kids that could have passed without cheating will have the same outcome as if they didn’t cheat, except they will have lost some integrity.
So there might be a few extra graduates that make it through because they were able to cheat an online exam in high school, but it’s not going to be a huge change.
Why would you need permission to take more tests?
Fun fact though. Your school doesn’t have to offer the AP class to take the AP test. I just straight up asked if I could take the AP CompSci tests despite having no computer programming classes. I sat in a room alone with my counselor for a day while he administered the tests, boom done, easy 5 since I had been programming since before HS. I tried to tell some of my friends who were also aiming at CS in college but they didn’t ask.
[0]: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...
