Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s AP Exams — a passing score on which earns high school students college credit — are open book/open note and taken from home. So it’s no surprise that Google Trends registered a spike in searches for ‘Java’ during Friday afternoon’s AP CS A exam (more detailed exam day chart) as students scrambled to solve the two Java programming questions that made up this year’s abbreviated 45-minute AP Computer Science A exam.
Looking up answers online isn’t banned, but a College Board video recommends against it, saying “the information won’t be helpful.” Similar spikes in exam content-related searches during testing times have also been observed for other AP subjects. The end-of-year AP exam for the “more approachable” AP Computer Science Principles course was canceled for 2020, although it was to have counted for 60% of AP CSP students’ scores.
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