So the recent announcement of the changes to the #AP tests got me thinking about test design and the contrary messages we get from CB ... A short thread coming..

Normally AP test are 2 - 4 hours long. @CollegeBoard wants us to believe that a 45 minute test is essentially identical.

This got me to thinking about how often then just drop things from the test and tell us its samesy!

Now if you've been around testing for a few years you've surely seen the odd question dropped her and there.

On the PSAT in 2016 two math questions were deemed "unscorable". It's happened many times. There was 1 PSAT with 4 unscorable questions.

I do have to say that its strange and disappointing that a company like college board can't get their test writing in order.

They have messed up #SAT questions and PSAT questions.. And this is from the tests that are released. Not less than 1/2 the SATs are released every year. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/06/03/college-board-admits-error-mathematics-scoring-may-sat

Back in 2011 I paid College Board $55 dollars to correct a scoring error | How to buy 10 points on the SAT from the College Board https://blog.bellcurves.com/blog/2012/02/09/how-to-buy-10-points-on-the-sat-from-the-college-board/#.XoUWBdQeiRU.twitter

But we're not here to talk about the repeated "one off" bad questions or scoring errors..

the changes to the AP testing got me thinking how can the College Board keep telling us they can truncate these test and have them considered equal?

Remember June 2015?

The June SAT had a kerfuffle that led to 2 sections being dropped and College Board telling us their tests were unlike school-base tests, not "fragile".

(still the best BS i've ever seen)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/06/14/college-board-dumping-two-sections-of-june-6-sat-not-one-because-of-printing-error/

So . . .

2 - 4 hour AP tests are the same as the 45 minute AP tests.

the 10 section SAT is the same as the 8 section SAT.

how are we supposed to believe in these tests if every time a problem pops up CB shrugs, drops half the test questions & says its all good?