AP YouTube is a Blessing

This year, as I had taken a semester of stats as a part of my IB Math course, I had the option to take the AP Statistics exam. As I had not really done stats since last December, I started to watch the review videos that AP had put on YouTube. I was so impressed with how AP had set this up and I really appreciated the level of dedication both of the AP Statistics review teachers had. This blog post is a giant thank you to them, and a thank you to the College Board and Advanced Placement for giving all AP students a place to review. It was also really nice (for me at least) to see all of the knowledge I had previously learned consolidated into 33 videos, and I still never felt like what I was reviewing was rushed. My friends that have taken multiple AP tests all have remarked how much they enjoyed the YouTube videos and the teachers that have taken countless hours out of their days in order to help us review. I think for me that experience was especially rewarding because my teachers do not teach over Zoom, but rather use it once a week for 30 or 45 minutes to check in on us. These review videos were then, for me, a return to the classroom teaching that I had been missing out on.

I would also like to address the actual AP exams themselves. I have heard multiple other horror stories about students that had the power go out and then have gotten subsequently logged off of their exam, or students that have been able to submit the first but not the second question, making their whole exam not count. I did not experience any of these difficulties, so I count myself lucky. I think that AP did a very good job trying to make these exams as adapted for the situation as possible, even if there were a few problems. The most we can all do in this time is our best.

A huge thank you to all of the AP YouTube review teachers and a huge good job to all the students that completed their AP exams successfully. To the students who were unable to submit their exams, I hope that your makeup exams go even better than the first time around. (And to that one girl who submitted a George Washington and Abraham Lincoln fanfiction to her AP US History exam, I sure hope you get some credit for creativity.)

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