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Interactions with Dinosauce313 on Reddit quickly became a resounding chorus of “okay, boomer.” That prompted the user to double down on trying to prove itself otherwise by posting Drake and Bernie Sanders memes -which only made the chorus grow louder. “Don’t even try it, y’alls curriculum literally taught us how to find all of your accounts,” one Twitter user said. Even if the sting isn’t real, the distrust high schoolers feel towards the College Board is - and many remain convinced the College Board is behind Dinosauce313. “I know that they are tricking people with accounts they have made to click on Google forms so that it traces who was cheating,” Kayla, a junior from Texas, said of rumors she’d heard. There it says the College Board “will be monitoring social media and discussion sites to detect and disrupt cheating” and “may post content designed to confuse and deter those who attempt to cheat.” The spokesperson also told Vulture the College Board “is not setting up accounts and starting discussion or social-media threads encouraging students to cheat, such as the ‘Dinosauce313’ account or r/APTests2020.” Still, some high-schoolers remain unconvinced. The same day the APTests2020 subreddit was created, Trevor Packer, the senior vice-president of Advanced Placement and instruction at the College Board, tweeted that the organization had “just cancelled the AP exam registrations of a ring of students who were developing plans to cheat, and we’re currently investigating others.”Ī spokesperson for the College Board directed Vulture to the company’s policies on online testing security. “No teenager speaks like this,” one TikTok user said in a video, breaking down the College Board’s alleged actions. The College Board had previously announced it would be using “digital security tools to detect plagiarism,” a nebulous description that some interpreted to mean this alleged sting. The account was created at the beginning of April, just a few weeks before the subreddit’s debut, and spoke in a lexicon that read more how do you do, fellow kids than, well, “How do you do, fellow kids.” On several social platforms, a theory began brewing: Dinosauce313 was actually a College Board employee setting a honey trap to catch would-be cheaters and disqualify them. Some things about Dinosauce313 didn’t strike other Redditors, namely real high-schoolers preparing for their exams, quite right. So Dinosauce313’s proposed efforts would be grounds for consequences, should any students get caught participating in a collective testing scheme. What is not kosher, however, is conferring with another person during the exam. The College Board, the organization that administers the exams, says wasting time doing so will not ultimately be beneficial given the way the truncated tests are written. Using class notes, or even Googling during the test, is kosher. Students are taking modified, shorter versions of the traditional tests, and this year’s iterations are open-book. Its stated purpose? “A community of students taking the 2020 AP Exams and wanting to use online resources while doing so.” As a result of coronavirus, all AP testing has moved online this year. On May 10, just a few days before Advanced Placement tests were scheduled to begin for high-schoolers around the world, a Reddit user, Dinosauce313, created a new subreddit, APTests2020.
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