2020 AP Exam Info

Main Website for students with AP exam Info:

https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students

Please Note:

• The responsibility to take the exam is solely on the student. Please read all emails from College Board and follow all directions carefully. (Please be checking the email you used to sign up for the exam and be sure to check your junk folder to make sure you aren’t missing any important emails)
• Exams will be online, the preferred browser for the exams is Chrome (Exams will not work on Internet Explorer 11)
• If a student is having difficulty receiving College Board emails, please use this the "Confirm your email address" page.
• That exam content will be different than originally planned: https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams/ap-exam-schedule#courseSpecific
• The format will be different than the usual AP exam: https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams

AP exam schedule

Here is the schedule for AP exams, students should be logged in and ready to test around 30 minutes before the start time. Make sure you are logging on for the Mountain Time exams, which are 10am, noon, and 2pm.

https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams/ap-exam-schedule

Make up exams will happen in June. College Board has strongly encouraged all students to take the exam in May. If that truly is not possible, here is the schedule for make-up exams. If you miss the first exam, you should automatically receive info about a make up exam. If you don’t, please contact College Board.

https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams/ap-exam-schedule#makeup

If something goes wrong while you are testing

If you accidentally close the browser, your device crashes, or you temporarily lose internet access, you can quickly click your exam e-ticket again to return to the exam. Continue the exam, and if you feel at the end of the exam that the temporary disruption negatively impacted your performance, you can request approval to take the makeup exam at cb.org/requestmakeup.

Tip: During the exam, don’t refresh your browser or hit the back arrow. Don’t call: Customer service centers won't be open due to the pandemic. If you lost too much time to a technical problem, aren’t able to connect to your exam, or experienced some other serious disruption, you can request a makeup exam at cb.org/requestmakeup.

What if you don’t take your exam?

If you do not take your exam, and you have paid for it, College Board has said Rocky will not be charged. This means, if that is true, you will get a refund of $94 per exam. (there is a $4 processing fee that we don’t have control over) The issue with the exam refund would be it will have to occur after all testing is over in June. We don’t have an actual date of when we will be able to start doing refunds, but it won’t happen until we are back in the building. Parents and students will need to be patient with getting a refund. It would also need to happen via mail and will be sent to the address we have for the family.

AP Testing Guide (Look through this!!!!)

2020 AP Testing Guide: The guide, designed to walk students through test day, provides information about:

• The AP Exam e-ticket
• Five steps to take before test day
• Understanding the test day experience
• Exam scores, credit, and placement

2020 AP Exam Day Checklist: Complete this checklist for each exam and keep it next to you while testing.

Helpful Videos

Explainer Videos: (There is a testing walk through video here) Also, there are new videos posted to give students quick, easily accessible information about their test day experience, what they need to do to prepare, exam security, and more.

AP Exam Demo!!! (Please do this!!!)

AP Exam Demo (available May 4): From May 4^th on, you can access an AP 2020 Exam Demo at cb.org/apdemo. AP students should use the clickable exam demo to practice the different ways to submit their exam responses. The demo will help students confirm that their testing device will be able to access and run the online exam. If they can’t access the demo, the final slide of the Testing Guide can help them troubleshoot. The sample content in the demo will be the same for all users and isn't a practice exam. We’ll send educators and students an email to remind them when the demo is available. College Board wants us to please encourage students to take this important preparation step.

AP Prep

Online AP Classes and Review Sessions prep week: The week before exams, online AP classes will focus on the exam day experience and sample exam questions.

AP Language Exams

Information for AP French, German, and Spanish:

The above exams will be administered using a new dedicated app, the AP World Languages Exam App. Students taking these exams must use this app on smartphones or tablets. This free app will be available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store the week of May 11. We’ll email students and their teachers to let them know when the app is available to download. Visit our site for more details.

A video walk-through of the test-taking experience will be available the week of May 4.

Accommodations

Details on accommodations for the above exams are also now available.

For questions about a specific exam content, please reach out to teachers. For other questions please reach out to the AP Coordinator Tim Bruell : tbruell@psdschools.org