Late Testing

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<p>I'm taking AP Calculus BC, Lit, Macro/Micro econ but I have to test late on ALL of them because of sports.</p>

<p>Are the alternate tests harder?? I read somewhere that these "alternate tests" are NOT the "form b" stuff we see all the time but is actually different.</p>

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<p>bump!10char</p>

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<p>I have to take AP English Language late because of AICE testing.</p>

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<p>so does anyone know about the difficulty level of late testing in general???</p>

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<p>no, considering one person can’t ta\ke both…lol</p>

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<p>The only student I’ve ever had that did the late testing saw the Free Response of the regular exam prior to taking the make-up exam and reported that the Free Response appeared to be of about the same difficulty. He also scored about what I figured he was going to score.</p>

<p>This was in AP Calculus AB, no idea whether that extends to other subjects.</p>

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<p>@theMathProf: hopefull that same trend in AB can go to BC, haha :)</p>

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<p>I don’t know about those subjects, but my English teacher has given us some of both of the forms of released DBQ’s and Open Questions for the AP English Lang exam and the B forms seem to be a lot harder than the A forms. Not sure if this holds true for all AP exams, but my teacher said the B forms are harder for AP Lang.</p>

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<p>The B forms are not the make-up forms. The B forms are used primarily outside North America.</p>

<p>The make-up forms are never released.</p>

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<p>so the late tests (not form B) are NOT harder? what happens if you’re sick, would they really give you a harder make up exam because of that?</p>

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<p>Well, I don’t think they’d make it harder… it’s the same test, why would they want to do that? If you can’t take the test on time, there’s clearly a conflict, and this conflict probably affects your ability or time to study. So it wouldn’t make sense to penalize us for that.</p>

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<p>I have heard that the make ups are harder, but I won’t know for sure until next Friday (Bio)!!</p>

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<p>Other things you should know about late testing:</p>

<pre><code>* Alternate exams are equivalent in depth and difficulty to the regularly scheduled exams.

  • Students’ scores may be delayed up to one month (August release)—make sure they know this.
  • Students’ free-response booklets from alternate exams are not available for purchase.
  • AP Instructional Planning Reports do not include data from alternate examinations.
  • If a school fails to follow AP security procedures and does not administer the alternate exams on the specified dates at the specified times, scores for those exams will be canceled, and the school may be prohibited from offering AP Exams in the future.
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<p>THEY CLAIM THAT ITS EQUAL LOL but iono ><</p>