Students who encounter technical problems while submitting their Advanced Placement exams can now email their work as a last resort, the College Board announced.
Some parents have hunted down emails for the company's leaders and blasted them for not anticipating the basic technical problems, and for not coming up with immediate solutions. They bemoaned that there wasn't a backup email option for students who tested in the first week."Some of us work in tech companies, and I can tell you, it can’t be that hard.
The glitches and public relations headache for the nonprofit testing giant has raised questions about how the College Board might roll out an online, at-home version of the SAT college entrance exam come fall. The College Board has promised to offer the exam if high schools remain closed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
By contrast, AP exams have a 65-year tradition of being administered in schools with paper and pencils and proctors. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the company could have canceled the exams, but because students said they wanted to take the tests, the company sought to figure out how to bring millions of tests online in a matter of weeks, and to safeguard against cheating.
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