College Board's Transition from Physics B AP to Physics 1/2 AP an Epic Failure?

At my school they told everyone to skip honors and go straight to AP. They said the redesigned test was similar to honors curriculum and would be a breeze for most AP students…boy were they wrong. The few people that passed at my school got 3’s to my current knowledge. AP Physics 1 is the only one we offer out of AP Physics 2 and C so we’re all moving over to AP Biology or AP Chemistry next year if we didn’t take it sophomore or junior year. To add to the injury the prep books I got for the exam helped little to none. I wish they would’ve stressed how the exam would be entirely conceptual and only 2 or 3 questions would be calculation based.