With the end of the school year just around the corner, students are once again nearing AP exams. This time of year can become stressful for students enrolled in AP courses, a stress even more heightened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With hybrid and virtual learning, students have had less face-to-face instruction and less time to learn the material needed to pass their exams. “My poor students the first half of the year had to teach so much to themselves. You know because we had to stay with the time frame because at that point they had not removed the three sections from the test. They didn’t do that until after the first semester,” says Mrs. Gambill, who teaches AP Physics 1.
Another concern with AP exams this year is the fact that there will be three different administrations of the test. The first one begins in May, while the third one begins in June. Due to the drastic differences in how students across America are attending school, The College Board has left the decision of when to take the test up to each individual school. As of now, both students and teachers are unsure of which testing administration will be selected. “As a senior, it’s kind of stressful and is making me worry a little bit,” says Elizabeth Herndon, “Most of our school year we spent virtual and so for some of my AP classes I feel very unprepared.” As well, Mr. Owens, who teaches AP Physics C and AP English Language virtually, points out, “If North Augusta decides to take administration one and Sliver Bluff decides to take administration three that’s a month gap… these students aren’t gonna have enough time, these students are gonna have an extra month. That’s my concern: just trying to keep everyone on the same page.”
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