Collegeboard's Biggest Dumpster Fire Yet: The 2020 AP Tests

Sorry about mic quality, blew out my iphone mic and my vocal chords making this.
UPDATE: It turns out that after making this video, CB added the course syllabi to their website
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[@josephstowell1995]

I once clicked the "report cheating" button and told them to stop cheating us out of our money

[@aconsciousautomaton3720]

legend

[@oliviaandrade8350]

thanks for doing god's work, respect ✊

[@jasonlee4706]

Absolute legend

[@rohankhubchandani3694]

LMFAOO I LOVE THAT

[@Lia-gb5ev]

Sure, the devil works hard but you work harder.

[@belowaveragedudewithanopin2249]

Glad they’re getting sued for 500 million

[@storytimewithjeff]

Some lawyer out there is looking out for us

[@dragonmasterjj7525]

@@storytimewithjeff it's another non-profit sueing them, bitten by the title they robbed

[@belowaveragedudewithanopin2249]

Storytime With Jeff dang this video blew up nice job man

[@minari9256]

Should’ve sued them for way more tbh after all the damage they caused

[@caspers3rdbathroomstall766]

its not enough .

[@haydenbrophy9460]

Collegeboard creates the problem and sells the solution, a wise man once said "They cripple you, sell you a crutch, and then claim they're your savior"

[@jj02mc27]

69 likes nice

[@garethbaus5471]

That cripple-crutch-savior paradigm is a disturbingly accurate analogy.

[@okman7504]

I could apply that to almost anything in America.

[@yeeeyekrut537]

I think schools have stayed to similair to factory jobs. Look up the vid on swedish schools

[@blooddiamond5396]

munchausens by capitalism?

[@cartoonenthusiast7260]

a good friend of mine is legally blind, and her collegeboard test quite literally WOULD NOT enhance the images for her. She didn't get any larger print, she just got a few extra hours to spend straining her eyes to try to understand what she was responding to. Absolute bullshit. She's had IEP plans and been legally blind for YEARS. Collegeboard has no excuse

[@fern_wyvern]

I can relate, the past three years I have tried getting a time extension on my AP tests but they claim I am not “blind enough” even though I have been legally blind since birth. They also don’t allow me to have a magnifier of any kind. Collegeboard execs deserve what awaits them in hell.

[@fern_wyvern]

Funny thing is that last year’s results were delayed by a WHOLE month for me

[@ddokki6169]

also international students didn’t have a separate time for their exams. some students were taking it at like 4am

[@storytimewithjeff]

Shoot I forgot about that. Yea that was a whole nother example of them just not caring

[@ddokki6169]

Storytime With Jeff it’s fine that u forgit ahah ! but yeah it’s just another thing that proves how stupid and messed up they are. great video btw !!!

[@fatimareyes2410]

leleluvbot I always thought that to be f*cking insane. Like, how does a literal teenager, (technically a literal child,) have the energy to function at such early hours?? If I were them, I would have dozed off in the middle of the god damned test. That isn’t fair. I wouldn’t have the energy and the conscience to know what I’m doing, thus increasing my chances of failing. And yet they still have to pay for it!? What a burden. I just never understood that. (Sorry for the rant.)

[@jingyiliu4781]

@@fatimareyes2410 I took both AP Calc and APUSH at 2am and I could not sleep till 5 am after taking the exam because of how stressful it was. I literally did not remember what I wrote in my APUSH test cuz my mind was just sort of blank. F collegeboard. Calculus at 2 am also just sounds like SUCH A GREAT IDEA

[@Mel-nr8lg]

I became nocturnal and stayed up until 4 am for the week leading up to the test. Still recovering RIP my relatively decent sleep sched. Also you know it's bad when you see the sunrise

[@claireeee13]

for a “nonprofit organization” college board sure does make a lot of profit

[@r0medanceprod.838]

They’re not a nonprofit

[@EpicGamer427]

@@r0medanceprod.838 they are legally

[@r0medanceprod.838]

@@EpicGamer427 No, the College Board is a not-for-profit organization, not a nonprofit.

[@sophiam3940]

R0ME [Dance Prod.] well for a not-for-profit organization they seem to really favor profit

[@comradevlad7459]

The biggest fucking lie in education EVER.

[@J0lly_jackson]

My AP teacher told us that if we didn’t have WiFi we could go sit in the parking lot by the school and attempt to use the (shitty) WiFi and tape a sign to ourselves that says some shit like “don’t talk to me I’m taking a test”

[@randomuser5443]

My teacher just told us good luck because we are fucked

[@J0lly_jackson]

@@randomuser5443 ah yea that reminds me. So when I left this comment that was my freshman year, now I’m in my sophomore year with a new teacher, at the beginning of the year she was basically telling us that she can’t guarantee to us that she will leave us prepared for the test this year because of how classes are scheduled this year or whatever

[@ignaciomosconi]

Ah yes, capitalism

[@sachetanbhoopathi485]

Same

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

Bless their heart.

[@sabsanchezzz]

They said that “getting a 2 or 1 would be more difficult” this year because of COVID but literally most of us got 2’s and 1’s 😐

[@scrubbingbubbies]

I’m lookin at my double 2s and hoping to god that it’s collegeboards fault

[@dojomaster5481]

Meanwhile, at my school the tests were stupidly easy

[@cassidyfrehner9149]

I got a 2 on my art exam even tho I spent SO much time using the most difficult medium and made an excellent theory behind it all

[@colonelsanders1804]

Not tryna hate or anything, but the demographics of people watching this video are more likely to have done bad on the tests simply because the title. I got a 5 on the APUSH exam and never even took the class because my school doesn’t offer it. Fact is, most people didn’t get 1s or 2s. The people who got higher just aren’t vocal about it.

[@theofficialniecey]

Yo I thought I was one of the only ones. I studied my ass off for that and got a 1. But thankfully I still have my credit for that class

[@jamiebeach1881]

Not only did international students have to the exams at the middle of the night, we still had to pay the 30 bucks extra that were originally for "shipping materials"

[@Ashley-hw5jn]

Wtf

[@partiallyslicedbread369]

Ah yes, the shipping fee for the internet

[@justanotherweirdo11]

wtf. I knew about the stupid ass time zone shit but what shipping fees?1 It's the internet. They could've refunded those $30 or used those $30 to create a decent solution for international students.

[@4473021]

@@justanotherweirdo11 they've been ripping off international students for decades, no reason they were gonna stop now. Shipping fees never have amounted anything close to $30 per student anyway since they always ship in bulk and have discounts with shipping companies.

[@sammylammy996]

shipping air. nice

[@HoneyBeeJess]

They told us when we took the exam that that they were "taking measures to deliberately confuse people who may be attempting to cheat over social media". They told us we'd have the questions 24 hours after testing, and we still don't have them weeks later. Also, fun fact, apparently a tornado siren going off during the middle of your test and students losing time to run to the basement does not qualify students for retakes! 🙃

[@andrewruegsegger7754]

yeah i remember hearing this too before the test! wack

[@Ellon62]

1.) How is this legal? 2.) Why are the responsible not in prison? 3.) Wtf?

[@4473021]

@@Ellon62 cuz US board of education is a joke, and they lobby the ever living fuck out of all legislation proposals that help students and risk them hurting their bottom line

[@Ellon62]

@@4473021 Well, then my next question would be: Where did you put the pitchforks and torches?

[@rann808]

Why would they deliberately confuse people? They literally said we could use the internet as a resource. So, if they consider looking up definitions and such as cheating, that’s cringe.

[@weigurde]

"So on behalf of every student you outright lied to, FU-"*ad plays*

[@Achridian]

For me it was like “So on behalf of every student you outright lied to, *inhales* *ad plays*

[@shivalbadal-ramjattan6403]

it was an ad about university at the same point in... what, how,god the timing

[@michaeloshaughnessy475]

My advice for anyone considering taking AP classes in high school: don’t. You’ll be far better off using that time to take dual enrollment classes at your local community college. Whatever university you end up going to is far more likely to take a community college credit than an AP credit. I took four AP classes in high school and only got college credit for one, while my friend did dual enrollment and is now graduating a year early.

[@OsirusIrdia]

Ehh it highly depends. I took 13 exams and accepted credit for 8 (the other 5 would give me credit but that just wasn’t needed) and I’m on track to graduate early.

[@jodishapiro9257]

The only reason you should take AP classes is if you want to study overseas in a program that doesn’t accept transfer credits. I’m taking a bunch of AP exams now because my high school diploma doesn’t transfer to where I live but AP scores count for admission 😂.

[@humptydumpty3345]

My sister who went to U of Iowa said the same thing, she took like 5 ap classes and they didn’t accept any of them

[@tamfigueroa1215]

Look into potential middle college programs too! Some schools allow you to take your junior and/or senior year at community college which can be transferred to state colleges and universities.

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

I can't believe I wasted time and money on AP US History only to be pigeonholed into a degree that I will barely even use after college.

[@user-cw7ke8ki3c]

lmao if you disappear off the face of the earth...... we'll know

[@storytimewithjeff]

😳

[@xbmeez]

Storytime With Jeff we got your back if you do, we will riot for your cause

[@thebigcheese7239]

Esther Bello?

[@DavidNikkiZane]

@@xbmeez oh god we don't need even more riots

[@anandkrishnan6604]

Emiliano Tavarez please no

[@4lan866]

College Board: “The Geneva Conventions? More like the Geneva Suggestions...”

[@linzyrudder3933]

I'm dead 😂😂

[@numberneinlarge9965]

“More like the Geneva Jokebook”

[@thechickenman3713]

It's not really rules...more like...guidelines (.-.)... yeah no

[@waggish4999]

profile photo really is the icing on the cake lmao

[@Shlungoidwungus]

You realize I'm keeping this for later right? Like I'm just going to copy and keep this as a treasure which I may use to pretend I'm funny for now into the foreseeable future.

[@somanyfruitsmango9021]

I immediately lost all faith in AP tests the moment I saw my grades for my 2022 AP tests. I took AP European History and AP Computer Science A. I got a 4 in AP Euro and a 3 in AP CSA. For the Computer Science test I was 100% confident on every single one of my long answers. I had so much time at the end of the test that I went through and checked every single letter to make sure the capitalization was correct. And for the multiple choice questions I only guessed on two of them because I didn't want to read all the code they put down. I am absolutely 100% confident that if that test was graded by my Computer Science teacher that he would have given it a 5. For the AP European History test... I have no idea how I got anything better than a 2. I literally have zero idea what Prussia was and the teacher for that class hated me because of how much I sucked in his class. I have a friend who took that class with me. If you asked him for the price of Barley in northeastern Switzerland in 1694 he would know it off the top of his head. He got a 3. For my long answer essays on that test I put down absolute garbage. The essays I wrote were irredeemably awful in every sense of the word. If you were to use those essays as toilet paper you would get Hemorrhoids. I cited random bullshit for no other reason than hoping it would get me a good grade. Some of my citations stated essentially the polar opposite of what I said they meant. In short: My essays were wrong. I should not have gotten a 4 under any circumstances. The scores I got on those tests made me realize just how incredibly useless those scores are. They do at at all represent my knowledge in the subjects I was tested on. Whatever wack ass way they grade those tests clearly does not work.

[@abigailc8829]

Yeah, you only need about a 70 percent raw score to get a 5, which goes to show how dumb it is. I had the same experience with AP WH. Got a 4 when I should've got a 2...talked out of my ass for every single essay.

[@chrislombardi7134]

@@abigailc8829same. I sucked ass at the saq and leq but somehow still got a 4. I was expecting a 3 or lower

[@thevfxwizard7758]

My really smart friend was a complete AP Euro nerd and knew everything there was to know about it. He got the hardest DBQ prompt on the test and got a 2 out of 5. I knew a lot less than him and managed to get the easiest prompt and got a 5 out of 5.

[@evagineer9165]

How does that happen

[@okman7504]

Smart? You sure? AP Euro is just a memorization test. History is simply memorization, not even basic concepts or ideas or problem solving. Your friend has photogenic memory.

[@thevfxwizard7758]

@@okman7504 The test is mostly memorization, but I said he was smart because he was able to remember things quickly, but also relate concepts together in his essays and make unique arguments based on cause and effect. It's just sad he got unlucky with a prompt we didn't study as much.

[@geraltrivia9565]

⁠@@okman7504for DBQs you need writing skills and the ability to tie historical facts and concepts together from basically nothing.

[@classonbread5757]

​@@okman7504photogenic memory isn't real.

[@xxkneegearxx4332]

Students: you can’t just take all our money for you own profit and not care for the people taking your test College board: hehe money go brrrrr

[@snakeat3215]

The chad college board vs the virgin student

[@Lush_Produce]

Glad I’m not at the grade for so test

[@Axel-xl2kl]

*Money counter go brrr

[@JohnnyMcJim]

College board: Ha ha student tears go plip plop

[@amanday3103]

“Helen Keller can hear the blood money jingling in your panda fur-lined pockets.” That one really got me.

[@HenryThe12]

Eh, the yelling to talking switching felt forced to me, this is the first video i watched from this guy, does he always do that? The animations are really funny though haha

[@gavincheesman9806]

Don’t forget how it rubs against the rhino horn crackpipes

[@maggiedriggs9642]

we need more honest reviews like this

[@doctor_octagon2448]

The Stevie Wonder line at 2:45 was really good too

[@timelesswonder7358]

That line goes hard as fuck lmao

[@babyboo9252]

The AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism didn’t even cover Magnetism.

[@doyletheCat]

THIS HAS TO BE A JOKE THIS IS LITERALLY SO FUNNY

[@egqos]

a little late but mine didn't either

[@rainbowrocks1020]

My friend had a horrible AP Gov teacher so over the summer she taught herself by watching the College board videos, by constantly going over notes and books and articles. When she got her results back, she got a 2. She paid 100 dollars and spent hours of her time studying only to get a 2. And she’s super smart too- she didn’t deserve a 2.

[@evagineer9165]

That’s greed for you, because apparently college board even Misgrade their own tests…

[@beetheartist6446]

whap? more like whack jfc

[@happywithsugar7394]

remember when they changed the due date for paying for exams from March to November? for the reason of "making kids commit to the test more and earlier" even though it clearly just forced us to pay for exams before we even knew if we were confident or if we could get college credit? CB's had quite the year

[@storytimewithjeff]

I completely forgot about that! Yea that was a whole ‘nother cash grab. It’s almost like they didn’t learn from that 🤔

[@masonp5]

but hey an overwhelming 91% of students still wanted to test so college board couldn’t take away the opportunity from all of the hardworking students across the world. How did they arrive at 91% you may ask? Well they’re still trying to figure it out too

[@spookus5430]

My genius school didnt tell us about the deadline until the deadline, so there was a flood of people trying to sign up for APs (one's they werent in the class for) and i had to leave early for cross country so i couldnt sign up for apush

[@rinokumura4448]

that shit is ridiculous, i paid before i knew that i would go through a three month long family emergency that gave me so much stress and prevented me from learning and retaining anything because it was the worst time of my life : ^)))))) i want my money back ahahahahahah

[@storytimewithjeff]

So sorry to hear about that. Having to worry about APs while you also have the family to think about must have been terribly stressful

[@somedude3596]

“Wow, you almost sounded human! I guess that’s why you’re in PR!” Holy shit that’s brilliant.

[@vessy9927]

I got an ad for a meditation app in the middle of your screaming lmao

[@8_BitMan]

Jeff's temper rose faster than the universe expanded in this video

[@housespider9971]

I took the AP European History test this year and got a single question. "Determine whether or not the French Revolution was caused primarily by Financial hardships or Enlightenment ideas." I paid a hundred dollars for one question.

[@ellierose6970]

I GOT THE SAME QUESTION. i thought i did so good on it but i got a 2 :((

[@yalikejazzinator9165]

I GOT THE SAME THING AND I GOT A THREE

[@kivan1691]

i didn't take an AP european history test, but i did take ap stats. i had something semi similar, but the entire course (not the test) was mainly about running tests and describing them. this year, it was only about describing the test. you know, the thing we covered for... about 2 weeks.i got 3/5. fuck college board

[@coopermadison6297]

Same, and I have yet to hear from a classmate that passed it

[@samhu5878]

If you get a grade then you get credits for college anyways.

[@laytenbyrd5746]

It’s almost as if having every student worldwide take an online test at the same time was a bad idea.

[@cynicalducky1041]

Hello,I'm not a AP student but a friend of one that heard this wack ass "non-profit" company.May I ask why on earth did they decide that having every student bombard the servers on the day for a test was a great idea in their book?

[@bumblemae]

@@cynicalducky1041 boomers

[@laytenbyrd5746]

Cynical Ducky Incompetence. Lots and lots of incompetence.

[@VinOnline]

@@cynicalducky1041 I had to retake a couple of my AP exams because their servers crashed and didn't let me submit

[@cynicalducky1041]

@@VinOnline BIG OOF. My condolences

[@pungoblin9377]

“CollegeBoard, F-” **ColledgeBoard ad** *THEY FOUND US RUN!*

[@alexisF1031]

they removed ALL the writing sections in the AP Spanish class so it was all spoken and like, 15 minutes long - so if you had grown up speaking Spanish at home, but had never written a single word in Spanish in their life. they could have gotten a five.. - not to mention someone else could have just... spoken instead of you

[@strudel7776]

This mans insults are on a completely other level.

[@mistermiles3271]

“Okay, I don’t like ad hominem attacks...”

[@milorushford3766]

Another problem I haven't heard anyone mention is for Arizona students the website that gave us our test times was an hour off. We don't do daylight savings here so we switch from mountain standard time to pacific for half the year and if you used college board's link to find your test time based on your location it gave us the mountain standard time while we're actually currently on pacific standard time meaning if you logged on at the time college board told you, you'd be an hour late to your test.

[@andearend436]

I am so, so sorry

[@hannahm.3606]

yessss exactly!! I thought that I had messed up!! I even logged on early, and it said I had 10 seconds left to answer question 1 ahaha. fun.

[@owenjones50]

Yeah that was sketch. I legit just kept signing into the tests 2 hours early bc CB and my teachers were saying different things.

[@jaydenvanderheyden2064]

People got the wrong time

[@kiwisweet5520]

are they evil or just stupid honestly

[@lavender_willow322]

college board kicked my apes teacher out of his account, and upon receiving his email, they had the audacity to tell him that he'd just have to go without a college board account all year. it's bad enough for him as a teacher, but for us students it's now impossible to get our hands on certain materials.

[@violetmarinaayis]

I took the AP World History (WHAP) test. It was pretty awful tbh since we weren't prepared at all for it but I somehow pulled a 4 out of my ass. In my class we barely went over DBQ since a lot of the test was SUPPOSED to be multiple choice but the test was only one DBQ question.

[@brendanwolski8521]

Dude for my APUSH exam, the same shit happened, except my teacher was so fucking garbage that I remember one day as he was about to go over how to write a DBQ, someone in the class asked his opinion about the Chic-fil-a sandwich vs. the Popeyes sandwich and got completely off topic for 30 minutes. When it was getting toward test time he was saying how unprepared everyone was and how we needed to more attention, this fuck threatened to give me a "referral" for insubordination when I start asking him about that time he wasted 30 minutes talking about chicken sandwiches or the countless other times he just sat there and put on a movie while the whole class did busy work multiple choice questions IN AN AP CLASS, THAT WE PAID FOR.

[@americantacos7618]

2 people passed my APUSH (Such a stupid fucking abbreviation that only instills rage in me because we were practically forced to use it.) test... 2 out of a class of probably around 20 students. The only thing I can thank some sort of higher power for is that I didn't have to pay for that waste of my time. I was one of the ones that failed the test by the way, but I finished the class with a b+ average, poor teacher honestly had no idea what was going to be on that test.

[@novelle.27]

I got a 3 on WHAP. Kinda mad because I feel like if there was multiple choice I would have gotten at least a 4.

[@davidmays8974]

WHAP.... *_WAP_*

[@rohan9786]

They say there are 9 circles of hell, but there’s actually 10. The 10th circle is an endless loop of “We Did Not Receive Your Response” and reassigned makeup dates. Like Sisyphus CollegeBoard Edition

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

I ran out of time on my math AP test and on the retake submisson form it mentioned accomodations (I have autism and ADD). The kicker? My AP teachers, the counselors, and vice principal ALL told me that accomodations (ie. More time) didn't EXIST for the AP tests!!

[@rohan9786]

Anjolie Barrios Damn that’s really unfair. At my school people who need accommodations are really focused on which i never really appreciated till I learned how it is elsewhere. Basically another regional advantage that college board doesn’t account for.

[@prap6473]

they cut WORLD WAR TWO and THE COLD WAR out of ap us history

[@juliamellin897]

In AP European History, they literally cut out WW1, WW2, & Cold War, like some of the biggest European & Global events of all time, who....?

[@joneatsbagels7239]

What do you want school was canceled, people are out here like “omg I can’t believe this actual crisis of a pandemic that we are in is like actually affecting my education” you can’t be a begging chooser and think that you can have school be affected by the pandemic but not your ap class what privilege do they have that I don’t know about to keep teaching students at home because my school certainly doesn’t have that privilege

[@Sam-pr8qe]

@@joneatsbagels7239 Exactly, the College Board should have made a better effort to be equitable if education is actually what their goal is. IB canceled tests and some colleges stopped requiring SAT scores, although the SATs are a whole different College Board beast - that shizzle stanky

[@PANICBLADE]

10th grade AP World History students also had to learn to according a brand new curriculum layout this year, already with minimal resources to use to study. Heimler's History KZbin channel did a demo of their test DBQ in 45 minutes to model for the students how to pace themselves and it took him more than one try to get himself a passing grade in the allowed time. AN EXPERIENCED AP TEACHER WITH AN ENTIRE ONLINE CLASSROOM ARCHIVE AND REVIEW ORGANIZER FOR THE NEW CURRICULUM COULDN'T PASS THE EXAM WITHOUT A RETAKE. That's not a slight against Heimler, he's great. That test was framed so poorly since they chopped off the last few units for this year so the students didn't get to learn anything after the Industrial Revolution unless their teacher wanted to cover them even though they were NOT going to be on the test, which would put students taking that test at a disadvantage. How about you cancel the exams and let the students get their complete education fairly? WWII, the Creation of Israel, the Cold War, Tensions in the Middle East, Apartheid, Globalization, ALL of it was deemed non-essential to the testing and therefore discouraged to cover in the final quarter of classes, distance learning regardless. Most of the time in quarter 4 ended up being an online version of the greatest hits of other quarters for APWH, and for what? A timecrunched DBQ with an awkward rubric and means of submissoon for students that don't have a catalogue of proper materials to study from.

[@PANICBLADE]

@@joneatsbagels7239 I wanted the AP students to get a complete curriculum. The gen ed students got to learn about everything because they didn't have to study to a test that chopped off the end of their education. I'd rather the AP test get cancelled and the students have a complete curriculum via distance learning than the other way around.

[@hallienewell5505]

They really expect students to take a standardized test on their couch without having proper study tools like they normally do to pass???

[@evankuhn9625]

This year, I took the AP French exam. Important thing to note: I'm literally fluent in French. Not only did they make me pay too much for two questions, but I also had to pay a "late fee" even though I submitted my money well before the final date, and well before exams were even close to being ordered. So this was 180$ (CAD) which is already ridiculous, especially because it turns out the exam was online. I still decide to do the exam. Come the testing day, I do the exam, everything goes smoothly, but a week or so later, my teacher calls me saying she never got my answers... Well fuck. Turns out, even though nothing went wrong with my exam and it said I was all good and stuff, they still never got sent to College board. So I have to do the rewrite. Oh, also, the original exam was on May 21st... The retest was on JUNE MF 29TH, which is past the date that marks can be sent to Colleges/universities lol, so it's pointless if that was your goal (for me, I wasn't sending my marks anywhere though so 🤷). I still decide to do the retest. I think I do decently, but I don't feel as good about it as my first one. After this exam, I STILL don't know whether or not the board got my results; I got no emails, no confirmation anythings, nothing! And no one is contacting me about it either, like anyone locally. So now I'm wondering, "did I just absolutely waste 180$ for this fuxking garbage exam?". Turns out, they did get my answers this time and I saw my score. Keep in mind what I said earlier: I'm literally fluent in French, but I got a 4. The exams, especially this year, do not only poorly test your knowledge of an entire subject by only testing you on a singular aspect and potentially a topic you just are bad at, plain and simple, but they are NOT a good representation of your knowledge of the subject. I feel scammed and then ended up w a mark that doesn't reflect my actual knowledge of the subject, so I can't even talk about it/show it to people without having to explain the whole catastrophe that is AP college Board

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

"Guy yells about things while making strange, yet weirdly fitting comparisons for 10 minutes" Ah yes, my favorite genra of entertainment. Edit: A word

[@aiddog10gaming82]

*genre

[@EpicNinja288]

As someone who took AP's this year, I feel this wholeheartedly. I made sure to shit on every survey they gave me. There's just one thing you got wrong: It's harming their *non*-profit margins. Because they *non*-profited 900 million.

[@jmaster2855]

He mentioned that in the former video, and yeah, it's pretty disgusting.

[@philipm3173]

Wow that sure is a lot of “non”profit

[@andrewhiser9965]

Wow that is fucked

[@savannahthurman]

my special needs, adhd, dyslexic, autistic self- who had to babysit two siblings who also have special needs and need attention. I couldn't even get to it and time and lord knows I wouldn't be able to write an answer.

[@briavandermolen9472]

Thank you for the AP Bio mention! I took AP Bio this year and we were told that THREE F**KING UNITS were removed that we had learned while the two units that were included were taught DURING QUARANTINE

[@ashtons.2483]

More than 40% of people failed the AP Human Geography exam. When that many people are failing it's the fault of the test

[@marcushopper9824]

I saw that! Like how is that possible. There had to be a testing problem or maybe the content they cut out. That’s a crazy number of people

[@n4li]

I took that test, I’m a freshman and surprisingly I passed. I wasn’t sure if I did because the questions made no sense at all. It was extremely confusing. We were given such little information. I realize that AP Tests are just scams

[@lillianhoigard6702]

Last year, more than half of test takers failed the physics 1 test. Only 6% got 5's

[@danasc7041]

I took APHG exam this year, it was HORRIBLE. I somehow was the only one in my grade to get a 5, and I can assure you, Im not the smartest student or anything. Not only that but in the first FRQ I answered 2/4 and in the second FRQ I answered 3/5. Assuming that what I did manage to answer was correct, then HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I GOT A 5 WHEN THE MAXIMUM I COULD HAVE GOTTEN WITH WHAT I ANSWERED WAS A DAMN 3. When I saw the results yesterday, I didn't even feel happy, just plain confused at how they actually graded these exams.

[@laurenm2000]

@@danasc7041I know. I got a three. But a lot of people I know failed. My friend told me she followed specific way of answering, for example if they asked to "identify" that meant to give an example and explain or something like that. She got a four. Maybe you did the same thing subconsciously or just new how to answer how they wanted?

[@lolmemes8447]

They said they surveyed about 18,000 kids, which sounds like a lot until you realize that on average about MILLIONS of kids take AP exams (in 2018 about 4 million), meaning that they only surveyed about a tiny fraction of students who took AP tests...yeah

[@storytimewithjeff]

Looks like the guy who made the survey failed AP Stats

[@paigedixon537]

But in AP Stats one of the rules for sampling is that your sample is 10% of the population or less....so the sample size should be fine. It just matters how they took the sample, if they only focused on one region or something or only sampled volunteers.

[@pizzatime9196]

Like Paige said, the sample size is fine. What matters is what their sampling method was.

[@alexanderb7721]

I was actually one of the people surveyed. My school sent me a google doc I had to fill out or something as to whether or not I wanted to do exams.

[@Gremliin]

Paige Dixon looks like someone got a 5 on AP stats! (This is not sarcasm this is a real compliment)

[@MsMastress]

I've been anti-College Board for years now. I refused to take any AP classes during the 2019 - 2020 school year and it certainly paid off it seems. I'm glad this evil organization is getting exposed as such, if only on a small scale.

[@cats9994]

Yeah I'm so glad I dropped out of my AP courses

[@vanityyyyy]

Dude I swear I did a decent essay but they gave me a 2. I honestly don't get how because I checked every thing off when I was writing the dbq and I even scored one of the best dbq's in the class when we did a practice one. I studied so hard and they gave me a TWO. I'm so happy they're getting sued, they deserve to lose every cent.

[@samuelshyu2077]

Make their pockets hurt

[@PikaPhantom_]

reading the comments here is starting to make me think that i managed a 5 because of all the outside evidence i was able to bring in, and not really for any other reason

[@tjmproductions6358]

We now live in a world where EA is less greedy than CollegeBoard

[@TheFPSKingsGaming]

EA-“I am a villain, not a monster.”

[@Natalie-101]

Omfg. Not a world I want to live in😭 honestly I wouldn't be shocked if collegeboard started selling something like "grade packs" like lootboxes, you just keep buying them until you pass or go broke😭

[@tjmproductions6358]

Natalie iS tHiS gOoD fOr ThE sTuDeNt?

[@Kaster505]

@@tjmproductions6358kinda defeats the purpose of the tests at all if grades are locked behind a paywall, it’s just a sinkhole for money at that point

[@jraes2587]

I heard they're being sued for $500 mill. I hope it goes through, because collegeboard is a cancerous growth on the education system.

[@storytimewithjeff]

Some lawyer out there is looking out for us 🙏

[@Girlyvader]

It’s good but it’s not even a fraction of what they make, they’ll make it back by next year or just in a few.

[@pretty_odd]

due to the pandemic they basically may be able to plead force majeure over the whole situation, pretty much exemplifying them from responsibility. i really hope that doesn’t happen though, the test was a nightmare

[@renatatostada3318]

drop in the bucket, even if it does succeed, and they'll likely settle out of court anyway because that's just how the world works :(

[@Turtle-.-]

It won't go through.

[@rileyowen5174]

Took the BC Calculus exam this year and got a 2 on it. The first question was a 9 part question with one part leading to another. If you didn't know how to do part B, you were screwed for C-I

[@guardbrawl9777]

Want to feel a little better? I rickrolled college board on the practice exams. Remember those online practice tests where you went through the submission motions to ensure everything worked? Well, we could send in a picture, so whether or not anyone saw it, I wrote out the lyrics to Rick Astley's never gonna give you up in my notebook and submitted them over multiple tests. They said to write about anything(:

[@aleyak1472]

I graduated this year. I took the AP Lang exam my junior year. I got an essay prompt about things that are considered problematic. I wrote about standardized testing. Needless to say I did not pass Thanks for the likes loves 💖

[@djgaming8633]

Wow.That's messed up

[@the_gracita]

Ok but QUEEN 👑

[@qingsapphic]

aight but that essay prompt was FUCKED cause in class we hadn’t done a single practice essay with a prompt anything like that :((

[@reivax6648]

*I got a one on my APUSH Exam I had 4 solid paragraphs,the prompt being “how did society change once Slaves were free” Biggest BS in my life.*

[@kaitlynsara2485]

a good handful of people i know wrote about how problematic standardized testing was and NONE passed-they all got 2’s

[@connorlindsey5368]

My AP bio was about grass and corn. I’m soooo happy I learned 12 chapters of useful info to take a test about GRASS AND CORN

[@doyletheCat]

When the college board gives you 15 minutes to solve worldwide hunger and 25 minutes to LITERALLY CURE CANCER

[@jodishapiro9257]

That sounds great for Ohioans 😂

[@aidanhurtado4014]

I took the same exam and got a question about crabs and watermelons

[@Bingbumble]

Nah you're joking wtf

[@queenieg6173]

I had to take ap bio online and i did the ap test on my chromebook and it was pretty normal (i think because it was my first ap class)

[@KethEx09]

Honestly it’s really comforting to see someone else get as mad over this topic as I did. The stress of taking this test along with the stress coming with the global pandemic and the fear of not making it into college lead me to many panic attacks and emotional turmoil. Even though my test went relatively smooth the experience was awful.

[@ShadowsOfTheSky]

TLDR; for the AP Bio test, your score was actually predetermined by which question you got. It was so bad, I got a 5 on the AP Bio test when I got a C- in the class. Biology was by far my worst subject. My question was about, get this: Water. Yep, Water. Just water. How water works. Barely nothing to do with Biology, almost entirely about the chemistry, and it was some of the most simple aspects of the CHEMISTRY of water, and nothing to do with biology. After the test, all the students talked about the questions and their scores. 2 other kids got the same question as me, and they both also got 5’s. In the entire rest of the class, (41 kids) only 2 other students got 5’s, and the overwhelming majority got 2 or 3, and much, much harder questions. There was one question that 6 students got, and every single student got a 1 or a 2. I can’t exactly complain, because I got the good end of the stick, but college board literally made a test so absolute shit that your score was basically determined by which question you got, not how much you knew about biology.

[@Bealzabub]

Fun fact: back in 2009 when I was in high school I ended up in the hospital during the week of AP exams. my mother had to THREATEN LITAGATION for me to be able to take a make up test months later when I was finally well enough.

[@MoMo-ts7vj]

Dude my freshman year I was on my death bed and the school CALLED MY HOUSE and threatened me with suspension if I didn't show up cause it was bad for me to miss. I had to take my first AP exam ever, barely being able to focus because of my meds, and they nearly cancelled my scores because my name was wavy and they couldn't tell if my M was an M or an N.

[@allistull24]

Did you pass though? I’m curious

[@AabluedragonAH]

I almost died to the fucking flu during my junior year studying for AP World and guess who now understands that they have a compromised immune system

[@rachelcarlyle7673]

I cut straight through a tendon in my foot the night before my APUSH exam in 2017. I had heard it was super hard to get a retake, so I made it to my 7am exam, limping after being in the hospital until 2am and a misdiagnosed injury I told them was a cut tendon. My AP teacher was shocked I chose to even show up. That day in school someone stepped on my injured foot. I took my finals two days after my surgery to repair the tendon on some nice pain medication and couldn't finish 10 questions on my 7am math final, because it was rainy and my crutches kept slipping so I got into school late that morning. The staff refused to let me have a wheelchair from the nurses office to get into the school safely. Surprisingly, I made a 5 on that APUSH exam. I wish I had been told more about dual enrollment instead of AP. College board sucks.

[@doctordogger4121]

Rachel Carlyle that should’ve happened to the collegeboard people

[@morganthiedt2481]

They lost my test and gave me a 2 as "compensation" Sophomore year lol

[@amandaking4654]

holy shit that pisses me off. they could have at least given a PASSING 3. rip man

[@Ashley-hw5jn]

There are SO many things legally wrong with that. "Lol you might be smart but who are we to know, we lost your test. So uh we are just gonna assume the worst and absolutely fuck you over :)"

[@jackbrinskelle9640]

How is a failing grade compensation

[@chaiky6556]

Wow that's some ridiculous bullshit

[@chelseaajanel8770]

Omg hahahha

[@Sarahw__]

I didn’t even get the chance to study because I didn’t know when my exam was, but woke up one afternoon and received an email from my student councilor that said “good luck on your AP exam today!” Like??????

[@skye.blue.]

as someone who took ap exams that year, I noticed something interesting with the AP biology exam: there were questions that were actually *impossible* to answer. I remember one section spent two pages giving context to a question that was on one topic and then the questions that followed were a completely different topic. I remember reading through the section about 4 times wondering what the hell I was supposed to do, but eventually I just chose an answer at random and had to move on. there were MULTIPLE questions throughout the exam that genuinely were so mismatched with the information given that they were just impossible:/

[@samieastton3354]

so collegeboard releases scores on different days because it knows that it’s servers can’t handle it, but will let everyone take the test at the same time....

[@alaeriia01]

They got their money; that's what matters.

[@garethbaus5471]

Yeah, they make just as much money from a failed test, and low success rate can create the appearance of the test actually requiring a comprehensive understanding. I know from experience that AP test questions are extremely limited and arbitrary, and the tests aren't long enough to be used to accurately determine if someone actually understands the necessary material.

[@doodle5425]

Comming from someone who just took the human geo exam, their website literally KICKED me off the test and when I got back on the submit button WASNT THERE!!! Also my entire exam was based off of 2 questions that had 4-5 sub questions and expected me to write a page and a half about somthing that can be explained in 2 sentences. I took the retake today

[@benjamind2764]

So you're saying that writing 500+ words about intensive potato farming in Indonesia (my actual question) wasn't a legitimate way to show how much I understood the entire curriculum? That test was sooooo bs

[@wetwatermelon6384]

Yeah I took human geo last semester so when I took the exam all the information was common knowledge. I don’t remember having to be taught that stuff.

[@UnOfficiallyRekt]

FRQ’s were like that when I took the Human Geo test normally last year lol, it’s not much different.

[@EvilPaladin11]

"...Expected me to write a page and a half about something that can be explained in 2 sentences..." That's the first taste of the bull shit that is writing academic papers in the format for professional journals. Summarize your findings like 3 times in 3 different ways and you you need to include a lot of fluff and cite multiple other academic papers. Each time I'm forced to write one, I'm torn between wanting to strangle my prof, and feeling intimidated and having a feeling of deep seated dread, that leaves me wondering if I actually got into the correct field. You'll start to run into that bull shit somewhere around second semester junior year. You'll write lot more of those if you're a masochist or hate yourself, and pursue a graduate degree (currently in a masters degree in a field where such a thing likely has a low to no rate of return (do get your bachelor's degree, since that'll give you solid footing for negotiating bigger pay)).

[@zacharytomes5202]

Human Geo is easy af. You'll get it done, dont worry

[@makisekurisu8594]

I remember once a dude had to take 5 ap exams again because collegeboard server would not let him submit the exam

[@scrubbingbubbies]

Can we just also mention that most of the tests had one or two questions that varied which were NOT equal in difficulty. For APUSH a friend of mine got a question based around slavery. I don’t know about the rest of you but we have been learning about slavery since at least 3rd grade and it’s a topic that many students know a lot about since racial issues still persist to this day. I got a question asking about how social reform movements changed society during a certain date. And I just wanna say that I DONT think those are equal in difficulty at all!

[@panikfrnzy]

“Bad WiFi is not a good reason to retake this exam”

[@TheOnlyWay2Go.]

Don’t get me heated, when I read the “requirements” to retake I was mad at how short sighted it was

[@logickedmazimoon6001]

Lmao such bs, i was born in the lag because i live in a rural area

[@sayvionwashington1939]

They really said that?! Motherfuckers the lot of them!

[@hannahcorbett1166]

the energy in this video completely makes up for the soul I lost while taking the 2020 college board ap exam

[@buntwogarde6583]

you wrote my comment for me

[@ireallylikehuskies9472]

@@buntwogarde6583 they did💀

[@kalebhusser3877]

Fr, this comment will age well for people in the future. Till the next algorithm brings us together🍻

[@r.qgames6950]

Wait, you had a soul before the 2020 exams? Lucky.

[@badza47]

@@kalebhusser3877 F

[@kaleb749]

1.7k dislikes are from the Collegeboard boomers who somehow managed to connect to the WiFi, find KZbin in their apps, tap on a video instead of just watching the preview and getting confused, and then actually managing to comprehend that you might be insulting them

[@Datmexican]

As if collegeboard wasn’t greedy enough: They just announced the end of the SAT Subject tests. These tests have subjects in areas such as Physics, Math, Bio, Foreign language, world history, etc. And they were only $22 per test, plus the $26 registration fee. Collegeboard decided that “Oh ThAtS wAyY tOo cHeAP, hmmmmmmmmmm.... WhY dOnt we jUsT gEt rId oF tHe sUbJeCt tEsTs anD fOrcE sTudEnTs tO tAkE tHe AP ExAmS iNsTeAd” So now if you want to show colleges interest in any of these subject areas (a lot of colleges even required certain subject tests), you’ll instead have to buy the $96 AP exam. Don’t be surprised when, in a year or two, T20 schools start requiring AP Physics and AP calc scores to be sent to them instead of the subject test scores.

[@slyoski]

College Board removed their old information, so my teacher had nothing to teach us off of. She could also not access the new information they posted and ended up cursing out one of the College Board workers in the classroom (we took AP Eng. Lang.).

[@BobBob-of7fg]

I remember last year my teacher had to go through a painful meeting to get a sample test. Funny thing is that I found it on the internet when I googled ap lit test

[@slyoski]

Bob Bob Yeah, the shit they put the teachers through is insane

[@fluffygreysocks6703]

lmao our teacher was like: “‘they giving you 45min. 10 bucks you have to write an essay, gl fam” and honestly?? rocked the test

[@slyoski]

Lia'sScrapNotebook same here, had a decently easy prompt, didn't have any issues either. Sadly everyone cannot say the same

[@ggar]

I just realized, the college board guy's head isn't wearing a hat, it's the college board acorn

[@QueueWithACapitalQ]

no no, thats his brain his brain is the "acorn"

[@applesas942]

@@QueueWithACapitalQ their brains aren't that big

[@gravelhands2968]

And this is why I never took AP classes

[@monicameggison6736]

who's here after getting a 1 and thinking they were gonna get a high grade

[@pbates1693]

It’s like we got punished for doing our best in school

[@fders938]

What are you talking about?

[@BigBoss549]

@@fders938 nigga

[@devinotero1798]

No you didnt lmao

[@pbates1693]

@@devinotero1798 idk bro 356 people agree with me

[@voltarashtavroth]

Are you high

[@maxsnowdude2034]

The AP music theory Test was disgusting. You had to record 2 long and complicated bars on your phone, and somehow get it on the computer in under 20 minutes EDIT: I still haven’t got my results (was supposed to get them a week ago) EDIT 2: so back in August I was notified that they didn’t get my test (even though I sent it twice) THEY NEGLECTED TO TELL ME THIS UNTIL FUCKING AUGUST. Needless to say I was not studying for it all over again

[@ianmacdonald4163]

Yeah sight singing this year must've sucked for kids who don't play an instrument because if you do, you are basically garunteed a perfect score for that part

[@chubbywolfer8703]

Ian MacDonald almost. I play a flute and I had trouble reading the bass clef so those who play piano or any instrument that reads in both clefs get a free pass on both instead of just one. Although just having an instrument at all gives us an unfair advantage. My music teacher commented on how allowing instruments no longer makes it a true sight singing question

[@inigo4937]

@@chubbywolfer8703 Are you not expected to know bass clef for music theory class? Not trying to be condescending, I'm from Australia and for our music classes we need to know treble and bass clef so I'm just curious as to how it works in America.

[@panisprettyrad]

yeah it SUCKED. luckily i could record on my (school issued) laptop, but i had to take the pictures of the paper with my phone. didn’t have enough time for the second half of the first question and i was freaking out a bit.

[@frotolops]

@@inigo4937 i think its just disorienting trying to transcribe between clefs when the instrument is read in a single one, especially if you dont do it often. its like trying to play tenor clef on the cello: you can read it but not that quickly cause it isnt as natural

[@Aeistheticism]

Students have to pay to send their exam results to colleges on top of paying for their test MONTHS in advanced. If you are reading this, student or former student, take DUAL CREDIT instead! You get placed in classes of actual professors worth your money instead of getting scammed by College Board! Spread awareness by sharing this video!

[@cjdoyle8275]

Fun fact, I didn’t take the AP exam and somehow I was still given college credit. I’ve never mentioned it to the school because I’ll be damned if I let them screw me over based on their mess up

[@noboi1721]

Patiently waiting for the CollegeBoard to go out of business 😌

[@storytimewithjeff]

That’s the American dream

[@fatimareyes2410]

No Boi I sure hope it does, damn it.🙏🏽

[@fangabxyfangabxy8563]

With a captive audience and nobody capable, popular, or cunning enough to compete with them, Earth might cook to death in the expanding sun before collegeboard goes out of business.

[@aidanhennessey5586]

You’re gonna he waiting quite a while

[@thejanitor3263]

Why wait when you can help it over the edge of the cliff

[@samm.8052]

I remember after you pressed "Start" you had to wait for a timer of over an hour so you could read the rules. I ended up playing Halo: Reach in another window, because it was just so pointless. I also ended up getting more out of that than I did the test, because I still don't have my results.

[@slipperylatex872]

results came out i believe

[@justinlegrand992]

Got mine... Failed my Writing test...

[@acdragonduck]

You know, that was actually a really smart thing to do. Instead of wasting your time waiting to actually start your exam which could take up to 30 minutes or an hour, you did something that made you happy.

[@slipperylatex872]

Justin LeGrand i got a 5 lol

[@yosblitz9026]

Dear god, thats my old pfp

[@criticalscythus]

I watch this two years later. I’m taking the sat exam, and man, I feel the reasons you gave are resounding today.

[@autumnreign7687]

I spent months and months of studying from early in the morning to late at night, taking practice test, reading any rubrics I could find, watching so many KZbin videos explaining information. Just to get a 2 and a 3.

[@timob1681]

"shouldn't culpability lie with the people that messed up, and not the victims?!" you pretty much just described the american school system.

[@CTHD13]

A lot of American systems honestly

[@timob1681]

@@CTHD13 fair

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

CTHD slight correction. Most of Americans systems make you realistically only have one shot. College if you don’t make it through on scholarships alone the debt is too much to be an option for most people so if you make too many mistakes that’s not an option anymore ( and with crap like this it is inevitable) prisons are designed to punish and end up making it extremely hard for people to turn over a new leaf ( if you got a felony on record you most likely ain’t getting a job so back to stealing you go) jobs will often look for minor infractions to fire you for after one mistake ( good bosses that won’t do this exist but still it’s not good that one minor mistake will lead to them digging up policy they never enforce to fire you in some cases)

[@homestucktrash4720]

Wait till you see the American prison system. And the American financial system. And the American military.

[@timob1681]

@@homestucktrash4720 and the american healthcare system that charges you $3000 a week for being depressed

[@breadsticks2202]

The AP history test didn't even give students enough time analyze what was going on in the pictures. It was so hard to even understand

[@Optimus0609]

There were pictures?! Oh god that’s what the failed JPEG loading was...

[@breadsticks2202]

@@Optimus0609 the Jpegs were taking too long to load! I had 3 minutes left by the time they finally loaded in

[@btat16]

[Bread] [Sticks] I saw another video on this. Apparently this was their method of "cheat protection". They make the tests so compact that you barely have enough time to complete them, preventing students from Googling answers...

[@nataliaw7841]

Yeah!! I got a DBQ question on an era my teacher said wasn’t gonna be on the test!!

[@aaroneverett9834]

U guys got pictures? 😭😭

[@tytocytotoxin]

coming here after the absolute nightmare that was the october 11th psat exam..my god they learnt nothing

[@GravitySucksGD]

Fr tho how do they fuck up that badly THAT THE ENTIRE SYSTEM GOES DOWN ON TEST DAY AND THEY COULDNT FIX IT FOR AN HOUR. oh wait that's right THEY DONT GIVE A SHIT

[@tytocytotoxin]

@@GravitySucksGD my school waited for over 2 hours 😭

[@jolyners]

it was genuinely devastating to take the ap tests online because i work backwards-- i start from the last question and once i get to question 1, i check my answers as if im retaking the test. not being able to check my answers or work in the way i found is beneficial to me in timed exams was a huge blow to my score, as well as the ap lang essays-- i was considered to have the potential for a triple threat essay score, as my school called it (getting a 6 on all 3 essays) but having that opportunity taken away to write a single rhetorical essay was ultimately detrimental. i got a fucking 3 💀 so many of the best writers in the school faced the same fate and not being able to bolster the score with multiple choice questions or other essays highlighting your strengths caused a tremendous dip in scores. no one got higher than a 4.

[@NanoChips]

DON’T EVEN GET ME S T A R T E D ON THE “YOU HAVE TO BUY YOUR EXAMS IN OCTOBER NOW” FIASCO LIKE WTF COLLEGEBOARD

[@allistull24]

Wait what?

[@danimalsk8r2]

Alli Stull originally you had until mid-spring semester to reach the deadline, but a couple years ago they changed it to where you only have until october, anything after is a ridiculously inflated late fee

[@NanoChips]

@@danimalsk8r2 wait, a couple of years ago??? it was just this past year (for 2020 exams) for me...

[@danimalsk8r2]

Nano Chips i thought it was changed my sophomore year, but that might’ve just been my school setting their own deadline

[@scrubbingbubbies]

YEAH so many people signed up for the ap calc exam and since the class started out easy but in actuality we had no idea how hard calc would be and were now signed up for a shit show of a test

[@samschwarm1928]

As a person who took the AP music theory test I would just like to say. Screw College Board and all their money hungry ways.

[@panisprettyrad]

i took it too! i didn’t finish the second half of the first question. i have terrible anxiety, and i was FREAKING OUT a little bit despite their “you can still get a 5!” bullshit

[@sketchabeat8955]

I have to retake the music theory exam because they apparently couldn’t use the file I emailed them of the sight singing portion 🙃

[@HS-mn6jc]

I took it too and suffice to say my panicked last five minutes of trying to take a picture of my drawn answers with my phone, upload them to my google drive, then download them to my computer and then upload them to CB’s site was a wasted effort because I still have to retake it anyway :)

[@robopuffs]

I have to retake it tomorrow cause it wasn’t made clear to me that it had to be done on my phone :|||

[@hazymilk8938]

@@sketchabeat8955 good luck!! It almost happened to me too but luckily they fixed it or something... so I'm good

[@dragonenvy0265]

Suggestion: you should make a subreddit dedicated solely to go against college board

[@ireallylikehuskies9472]

i- literally am speechless i completely support you. maybe i had no idea what i was getting into this year, my first year of AP classes in general; im doing ap bio rn cause i f8888g love bio even though nothings in person...blahblah. but i really hope those people who did the ap exam last year know that some teachers are using lockdown browsers. i have no idea wtf that is bc ive never heard of it (maybe im just dumb) but ive used it a couple times and i couldnt quite discern whether or not we r gonna be using for the ap exams. anyway, right now im in my second quarter, i have a 100 in the gradebook this quarter, tripped up last quarter with an 85 flat too. i really do support you and i wish i could get you evidence of things in the ap bio course perhaps that is disclosed to students in the 2020-21 year or something thank u so much man this vid is just, thank u -B

[@beantaz3862]

And there is no way around them. It's a breach of Anti-Trust Laws.

[@ETXAlienRobot201]

heh, those laws are well over-due for some amendments so all the other corporations can be split. guess there's another special exclusion besides big pharma to be nailed up the ass as so deserved. curious who else has a "you can technically have a monopoly despite a law saying it's illegal to have monopolies" ...

[@beantaz3862]

@@ETXAlienRobot201 Technically by each sport, the big 4 North American leagues are each monopolies. It's just under the classification of sport.

[@ETXAlienRobot201]

@@beantaz3862 yep...

[@beantaz3862]

@@ETXAlienRobot201 At least they are competent 90% of the time.

[@ETXAlienRobot201]

@@beantaz3862 the sports associations/leagues?

[@Darkdragon902.]

One of my friends’ internet went out during the 30 minutes before the test and had to run to his friends down the street and take it in their basement, lmao

[@kidscuisine3446]

The same thing happened to me, except I got reconnected in time. Still failed it though :)

[@forloop7713]

@@kidscuisine3446 How do you fail a test you take on your own PC, can you not cheat?

[@dogthecat4497]

@@forloop7713 a lot of them are timed essays, so although college board allowed test takers to use outside information, using it took wayyyy too much time.

[@abathtub1411]

@@forloop7713 they have a time limit so short you dont really have time to look most of it up and still answer. For example in my AP bio one this year the first question had parts A-J (not a typo) with only 25 minutes to answer (edit): plus for that test most the answers required knowlege on multiple biological concepts, often from completley different units, so they weren't very Google-able.

[@forloop7713]

@@dogthecat4497 Ask someone else to be there to help you beforehand?

[@thepumpkinmaster2596]

The fact that I got a 3 on my test was just extremely impressive with the absolute horror that was the AP calc test.

[@rotface6969]

Watching this in 2022 crazy. Insane what kids had to deal with that year. 2019-2020 was my first year of College. All my prof's that year just said "stay safe" and made the classes easier to finish when quarantine started. Meanwhile High schoolers were still expected to take those gnarly ass exams.

[@Snowunicorn1snow2]

High school students, if you don’t do well on AP tests, it’s perfectly okay! Don’t beat yourselves up about it. A lot of college/university professors aren’t out to purposely trick you on exams like these tests do. I’m a junior in uni with a 3.6 gpa and I barely squeaked by with 3’s on my ap tests (art, eng lit, and stats). NO exam I’ve taken in college has been as long, confusing, or complex as an AP test. They’re not “college level” classes-they’re BS. College board is just out for your money. Try to dual enroll at a local community college to get your gen-Ed’s done instead. It’ll save you a load of money and get you exposed to professors who actually care if you learn the material.

[@vic5073]

Thank you for this advice! I’m an upcoming senior of the 2021 high school class and i’m scheduled to be taking 7 AP courses next year. It’s a relief that future college course exams aren’t going to be as confusing or painful as AP exams. I’m currently trying to take some courses at a local community college in order to recieve some college credit, as my school does not offer dual enrollment :-( The whole process is very confusing, so I can only hope for the best.

[@Ry-mt3hp]

I agree, I was in the same boat. Gen-eds in college are easier than AP courses. But if I took that advice I'd still be in AP courses as well, because as you know, the average curriculum was painful in a different way.

[@k.b.5079]

I totally agree. I had fun in the classes, but I say EFF those AP Exams. The only reason I didn’t dual enroll was because I didn’t have a way to getting to the college. I knew people who graduated early because they played their cards right with dual enrollment. It’s an awesome opportunity and less stressful than AP classes. Let’s not forget that you’re essentially guaranteed the credit as long as you pass the class, and it’s pretty much free. Take advantage of it. You’ll learn more in the end in my opinion.

[@violetbeats7]

Thats true but I aint tryna get beat by my dad. He already ripped my head off for getting a 3 in seminar (which is a MAJOR bullshit class btw)

[@ganklord386]

I don't have a strong footing to say this but I agree I recently graduated and took the piles of shit that are the ap tests (and was somehow blessed) i have been consistently told I've been good an have a had relative ease in my classes (this all the evidence I have on my academic prowess) and even when the test were the best them made me feel like a dumbass so yeah don't worry about the the test they are bullshit

[@fionadreesbach3685]

I 100% had an advantage. I'm an only child with very understanding parents so for silence my parents were kind enough to sit in the backyard while I took my exams (which I appreciated very much). Additionally, I don't need any testing accommodations like a 504. I had a very stable connection thr entire time AND I was on the second week so I was significantly less worried about not being able to submit. For other students this is an injustice

[@janegrapher]

Same here. I'm also an only child with a good wifi connection, and although I'm constantly worried about their health, both of my parents also worked while I was taking all my AP tests. One of my closest friends had to deal with his dad bothering him while he was doing his exam. CollegeBoard doesn't realize how dense some parents can be.

[@owenjones50]

One of the few advantages to living in 2 households: I test wherever my siblings aren't XD.

[@evanyoung2919]

Same here my parents cleaned their office so I had a nice place to take the test and my mom made some delicious coffee ice cream thing for me to drink while I took the test. I had a stable WiFi connection and my parents were quiet.

[@despicableocelot8459]

I’m an only child with exceptional wifi and parents who know I’m taking a test, and I had a 504 so I got 100% extra time. I was able to finish my entire DBQ for APUSH and all of the stuff for AP Physics A, and that stuff was gnarly. I also live on the west coast of the US, so I basically got all the advantages, and it was hard. I sympathize with all of you that had hard times, but I am personally grateful that I can’t empathize.

[@SCschoolpool]

It was pretty rough for me, I have 3 siblings and i share a room with my little brother and i had him screaming to his friends about fortnite the entire time i was taking my exam and couldn't focus and ended up not finishing in that absurdly small amount of time

[@vicefaun2316]

dude i failed the macroeconomics test after studying for topics that didn’t even end up on the exam :/

[@showmastercharlie2449]

Loved that my AP bio test was 2 questions and we were explicitly told one of the 2 wasn’t going to need to be learned

[@reamend7234]

Also don’t forget that kids with learning disabilities got no extra time or help.... I had to write a DBQ in 45 minutes with my extremely dyslexic mind. Let’s just say I didn’t finish and college board will get to see some amazing word vomit on my test

[@fionaxx8645]

my sister has impaired reading time and they couldnt have cared less

[@SoraByers]

Really they didn't give you extra time!? They gave me 50% more time

[@gretis9951]

@@SoraByers same here

[@potatoluna3389]

I can't focus on a computer screen for more than 10 minutes at a time while using higher brain functions without getting frustrated and confused. My eyes are sensitive so doing that hurt. I didn't even like using the computers at school and then they put the whole fucking test online. All of my hope went out of the fucking window the second they told us what the test were going to be.

[@salemh931]

That's super weird... I have really bad ADHD and can't focus to save my life, and they gave me 50% more time. Did you or your school coordinate extra time allowance in advance and the college board just ignored it?

[@Vgamer311]

I could’ve bought that the subreddit was real until someone posted “Hey, let’s all post our real names and test ids on this cheating subreddit in order to cheat better!”

[@calebs4755]

Wait really? Did they actually think that would work?

[@Vgamer311]

The Coffe Man idk what they thought, but it’s talked about in the video.

[@Mettalus]

They actually did try it, and a good few obviously fell for it...They had me in the first half, then the 'a little anonymous cooperation' set off red flags everywhere. I'm just glad some people realized what it was and immediately started shitposting on it instead of what they demanded instead...Very unfortunate for those that did fall for it though: That might've ruined some careers alone.

[@TLord]

I just realized what your rants remind me of, it’s got that Regular Show Benson energy in the best way possible. I hope you had a good holidays and a great New Year

[@MidirAlucard]

To students in hs now who dont want to take the college board route, but also want college creds, try and take community college courses while in hs. Many colleges will take cc credits, and are often very cheap for hs students.

[@niko6248]

The world needs more people like you who have the balls to stand up against corporate bullies who profit off the misfortune of others. I hope your message spreads far and wide, and hopefully we will see the demise of college board soon.

[@paulwhite484]

Yes, and say goodbye to our college credit 😀

[@liammitchell2225]

@@paulwhite484 agreed. It's the education system in general. Straight up the only way to fix it is by making education free or near free by taxing the rich heavily. College costs way too damn much. It's the government's fault that they have not make college affordable in America, and then College board came in to save kids money, making their profit margins instead of having it go to colleges. The colleges deserve to have money to work, but that money shouldn't come directly out of the pockets of students cause it's too much.

[@jackytaly]

Liam Mitchell guaranteed student loans are the problem that causes colleges to be expensive. Taxing the rich is a bs dream that’ll never happen in the US

[@punctuationman334]

Liam Mitchell you do know that “taxing the rich” isn’t the solution to everything? Wealth taxes don’t work either, social democrats like Norway have more generous taxes on rich people than America.

[@AmbientMorality]

@@punctuationman334 Can you clarify?

[@hamburgerdog25]

"I just want to cheat, am I right?" - definitely not written by an underpaid 42 year old office assistant who is probably ripping their hair out

[@flamethefurry3516]

This was the perfect mix of funny, unhinged, and serious

[@user-jj6xp2ln4d]

My AP World History exam in 2020 was 1 question. A. Singular. Question. I paid $90 for one question about Mongol military tactics. I had to study the whole textbook only for it all to come down to something I studied for a week.