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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: 0.001s | 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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walshemj ◴[21 May 20 18:55 UTC] No.23263229[source]▶
One might also ask why in 2020 your taking an exam and then photographing it.

Some of those with problems actually had real computers as well.

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1. FalconSensei ◴[21 May 20 20:34 UTC] No.23264787[source]▶
it may be way write physics, math calculation with pen and paper than trying to type that in the computer.
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2. walshemj ◴[22 May 20 18:15 UTC] No.23275175[source]▶
The example given was an English paper