Do not fret about the “mission-driven not-for-profit” College Board– it’s drowning in money. The United States group, which administers the SAT and AP tests to college-bound trainees, paid its CEO $2.38 million in overall settlement in 2023 (the most current year information is offered). The senior VP in charge of AP programs made $694,662 in overall settlement, while the senior VP for Technology Strategy made $765,267 in overall payment.

Provided such eye-popping numbers, one would have anticipated the College Board’s shift to digital tests to go efficiently, however it continues to have problems.

Simply recently, the group’s AP Psychology examination was interrupted nationally when the needed “Bluebook” screening app could not be accessed by lots of trainees. Due To The Fact That the College Board moved to digital-only tests for 28 of its 36 AP courses starting this year, no paper-based backup alternatives were readily available. The only “solution” was to wait silently in a freezing gym, surrounded by a hundred other stressed-out trainees, to see if College Board might get its digital act together.

I speak, as you might have collected, from household experience; among my kids got to experience the event first-hand. I was very first clued into the issue by an email from my school, which revealed “a nationwide Bluebook outage (the testing application used for all digital AP exams)” for all AP Psych testers. Within an hour, numerous trainees were lastly able to visit and start the test, however other trainees had scheduling disputes and were for that reason “dismissed from the testing room” and offered slots throughout the “late test day” or “during the exception testing window.”

On Reddit, the r/APStudents board melted down in foreseeable style. One post asked the concern on everybody’s mind:

HOW DO U NOT PREPARE THE SERVERS FOR THE EXAM WHEN U KNOW WE’RE TAKING THE EXAM HELLO?????? BE SO FR

i was secured and studied like hell for this ap psych test ts pmo like what the real f– nugget???

Now, I’m old enough not to understand what “BE SO FR,” “TS,” or “PMO” suggest, however the term “f—nugget” comes through loud and clear, and I prepare to include it to my vocabulary.