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Some tests require symbols (like greek letters), which aren’t easy to type by default. Also, people have been practicing all year by handwriting responses (sinc
by ReverseCold 6y ago
Some tests require symbols (like greek letters), which aren’t easy to type by default. Also, people have been practicing all year by handwriting responses (since we didn’t know it would be online, obviously) - so a handwritten option is accommodating that.
- nmstoker 6y agoI see, so typing entries is purely a Covid-19 reaction? Sorry, hadn't appreciated that earlier. Definitely feels like something to keep after things go back to closer to how they were.
- snazz 6y agoSome of the exams (like biology) no longer require calculations this year--instead of doing the calculation, you just explain how you would do it. This has been confusing for a lot of students, but it solves the "special input methods" problem.
- j-james 6y agoRight, but Biology isn't the only AP exam that requires calculations. Dealing with integrals for AP Calculus is much more of a pain.
- mywittyname 6y agoThis brings back horrible memories of the janky-ass software we used in calculus for our exams. It took probably 10x longer to answer a question with the GUI because of the symbols and half the time they'd be marked wrong because the system couldn't handle equivalent variations of the correct answer. I doubt things are much better today. This was probably the "low-tech" solution to a decade+ of dealing with the above problem.