In a major disruption affecting students nationwide, the College Board’s website crashed this morning during the administration of the AP Psychology exam, halting online testing and prompting widespread confusion and concern among test-takers and educators alike.
Once Students started to log onto the AP Psychology Exam at 11:30 a.m. they failed to enter the software. After being on hold with the College Board for over half an hour, all AP Testing Students were sent home.
Administration Assistant Stacey Myers confirmed in an interview that it was the College Board’s Fault, and the crash has no affiliation with Londonderry High School.
The AP Physics 1 Exam started at 7:30 a.m. and students were able to log on and complete their exams successfully. It has been confirmed by the College Board that this was not Londonderry High School’s fault.
Although the Exam will be taking place after the original date, the Administration is not worried about students receiving their scores.
“Since Exams have been moved to digital or hybrid, we are guessing results will be available quicker,” Myers said. “We have not spoken directly to the College Board.”
Makeups will still be taking place next week during their original scheduled times, There is no date confirmed for when the AP Psychology exam will take place.
“This is the first year students have been required to take AP exams if they are in an AP class,” Myers said. “We don’t know whether makeup will work, we have a schedule for kids that were absent the past two weeks, but we don’t have any answers about the AP Psych exam.”
Senior Reya Rivera confirmed that the “environment” of the room remained calm and waiting for further instructions on what to do while in their proctored room. All students who tested discussed the matter while staying calm.
“Everyone had something to talk about,” Rivera said. “We all talked about how nervous we were and we all felt on the same page.”
The Guidance Officer has confirmed that they are currently contacting the College Board to receive more information to hand out to the high school.
“The school has already contacted the College Board,” Myers said. “As soon as we found out there was an issue, the School was contacting the College Board.”
The school will be taking action as soon as Guidance receives information on the matter.
“We don’t have answers to what the College Board will say; there are so many unanswered questions,” Myers said. “On the school’s end, we did everything possible.”
More information and updates to come on the matter as we receive more information from Londonderry High School and the College Board.
