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Lansing Students to Retake Lost AP Exams |
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
"Our advanced placement dilemma has come to a resolution," High School Principal Michelle Stone told the Board of Education (BOE) at their regular Thursday meeting. "I don't know if it's a happy one or not. We will be doing a retest. It is not scheduled yet, but I am hoping it will happen after our December break so the students will have some time to prepare."
Sections of the AP Exams taken by students around the world, including a dozen Lansing students, were lost by the Educational Testing Service, which administers the tests for the College Board. Stone has reported on her lack of progress with the College Board over the course of several months, so this resolution is a breakthrough of sorts. "I'm sorry they were not able to locate the tests at the College Board, because that's the resolution I wanted," she said.
According to a Washington Post article, some score sheets are lost for a variety of reasons each year. But this year hundreds of tests from students around the world were affected. Students were given the choice of cancelling the entire grade or retaking the lost portions of the tests.
Stone says that Lansing students will retake the tests, and she is notifying colleges of the glitch so that students won't be penalized. "I included letters in all of their application packets, explaining the situation, citing the Washington Post article so the colleges know that the students did, in fact, complete the AP level course," she said. "Chris Finn was kind enough to give his idea about what each child's grade more than likely would have been. The fact that he's done this for quite a long time means he has a good idea of how that would have looked."
Stone says that students are relieved that a resolution of some kind has been reached. "At this point the students that have chosen to retake whatever modified exam they will give have nothing to lose," she said. "AP exam scores are not reported to colleges until after acceptances are done."
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