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Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

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669 points danso | 2 comments | 20 May 20 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.518s | source
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coffeefirst ◴[21 May 20 17:38 UTC] No.23261776[source]▶
"Our system broke, you're screwed now, sorry" is never an acceptable answer. Do they really not have anyone who knows how to get stuff done?

1. Take the files and figure out what to do with them so they can be read. This isn't a hard problem.

2. Ask everyone affected to email you the photo or a new photo of the documents. We'll just take it on trust that you do so honestly because there's no way you would've seen this coming.

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1. mturmon ◴[21 May 20 19:39 UTC] No.23263882[source]▶
> ... We'll just take it on trust that you do so honestly because there's no way you would've seen this coming. ...

I see where you're going here, and I want to agree, but you aren't reckoning with the incentives for cheating on the AP.

My kid is taking the "AP World" test today. One of her classmates was asked to sit by a different student to coach them at their computer during the test, because the test is done remotely this year rather than in person.

I'm afraid that if you give N people an option like this, a fraction will exploit it.

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2. vehementi ◴[21 May 20 19:55 UTC] No.23264163[source]▶
They would have a server log of who tried on time to submit it and had server errors. Those people could not have foreseen this... so we can accept their late submissions