Montgomery Blair and other schools across the nation canceled PSAT testing due to College Board technical malfunctions
PSAT canceled.
After taking AP exams or the SAT, students' inboxes are filled with meaningless college emails.
AP Exams are made unnecessarily difficult with high costs and unreasonable deadlines
Student stressed about AP exam costs and registration timeline.
The College Board decided to administer online exams amid school closures
The College Board's new test policies inconvenience both staff and students
Overpriced exam fees contribute to College Board's one billion dollar profit
Overpriced exam fees contribute to College Board's one billion dollar profit.
Sometime in the last fifty years or so, the idea of Advanced Placement (AP) classes, SAT tests and College Board as a whole, has been corrupted. The non-profit draws criticism in nearly every aspect of what it does, not the least of which is being a non-profit.
The SAT was introduced during the Progressive Era with the purpose of eliminating test bias. Unfortunately, following the boom of the testing industry and the dramatic increase in competitiveness for college admissions, the SAT has done exactly the opposite.
Although the new SAT has good intentions, it won't fix the old SAT’s failure to fulfill the test's purpose-- to provide colleges with a fair and accurate evaluation of students' ability to succeed in college.
Blair's Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry teachers have revised the curricula for the 2013-2014 school year in response to the College Board's recent reform of the course and exam.
Students are now expected to take French 6 before Advanced Placement (AP) French Language and Culture in order to better prepare for a new AP exam that the College Board introduced last year.
Last week, the College Board finally acknowledged what many educators fail to: many of the 1.2 million kids who drop out of school each year have no other choice.
When Blair administered the SAT on June 4, students were not prepared to start the test an hour and a half late.
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