Students Think the College Board Is Running a Reddit Sting to Catch AP Test Cheaters

The same day the APTests2020 subreddit was created, Trevor Packer, the senior vice-president of Advanced Placement and instruction at the College Board, tweeted that the organization had “just cancelled the AP exam registrations of a ring of students who were developing plans to cheat, and we’re currently investigating others.”A spokesperson for the College Board directed Vulture to the company’s policies on online testing security. “It truly is sad how it’s almost like College Board wants kids to cheat in order to fail them by making up ‘resources’ and putting out fake information online when they explicitly said that it is ok to use your class notes and even the internet during the exam,” Victor, a senior student from New Jersey, said. High-school students, who under regular circumstances would already be stressed out about their exams are finding themselves facing added anxieties — remote learning, confusion about what course materials would be on tests, access to appropriate technology — under the new testing structure.thank you twitter user wishxart and reddit user dinosauce313, who both totally arent college board employees in disguise pic.twitter.com/SsqAhTt86iYALL. After the first few days of testing, our data show the vast majority of students successfully completed their exams, with less than 1 percent unable to submit their responses,” the College Board said, via a statement. “If the College Board trusts their students to not cheat on the exam that is online, the trust should also apply to the legitimacy of the time stamps,” Jess said.im gonna go ahead and guess that tomorrow’s AP memes are gonna have to do with: •wifi cutting out•frozen screens•cb drinking students tears•mass panic as all AP students try to turn in their exams all at once, only for the server to crash•sadness over shitty AP memesJess told me she doesn’t put much stock in the Dinosauce313 theories and has instead been focusing her energy on circulating a proposal she hopes the College Board will see, pleading the case for students, like herself, who feel it is unfair that they will have to take the tests a second time.