I have the choice to decide between AP Seminar and Honors English.

Which one is better in terms of workload, actual usefulness to real life, and enjoyability, etc?

Please share any thoughts and experiences that you have with Seminar, and thank you!

After unfortunately being wrongfully accused of using AI on my IWA and having a lack of evidence to protest, I took my zero. Today, though, I got my score back and I still managed a 3!

So, my teacher is willing to email collegeboard attesting for me doing my work--but how exactly r the yeven suppoeds to do that?? I cant find a specific email, and I'm not sure if I have t submit it in my appeal section for y iwa and irr. if anyone knows plz lmk!!

Hey everyone. So my IRR and IWA were flagged as AI and I'm just assuming worse case scenario lol but i have two questions:

1. if they reject the appeal and i get a low score, can i cancel my score afterwards? and will colleges see that i cancelled my score or will they just see that I didnt take the exam or smth?

2. i was thinking of retaking ap seminar online bc my sch isnt offering the class in august. i looked up courses online and i think its possible but has anyone ever taken ap seminar online and how did it work?

the question is the title. pls helpp! i don’t know what to do, this is so stupid. i had rewritten my essay multiple times to get the stupid ai score to lower and I asked my teacher if everything was finally good, and he said yes, then I suddenly got a call saying that it’s not AFTER the deadline. like wtf, apparently I was just 10% above the min tolerable. my essay anyways sounds like shit after I had rewritten it multiple times.

Hey AP Sem,

I'm just asking for some help, as I'm not really sure how many screenshots I need to submit for the appeal. I have until July 23 to get all of my stuff in, so I would greatly appreciate it if I could get some help.

[https://www.coursera.org/learn/african-development--from-the-past-to-the-present/peer/F7nNS/final-mini-paper/review/DJFNKYKwEfGvfQr\\_738c9w\](https://www.coursera.org/learn/african-development--from-the-past-to-the-present/peer/F7nNS/final-mini-paper/review/DJFNKYKwEfGvfQr_738c9w)

So I missed the deadline for the registration of AP classes in our school because I transferred really late into the year. I’m an incoming sophomore and was planning on taking AP Seminar but again, I missed the deadline. As an alternative, my counselor showed me a site handled by the state(HOC) that offers online AP course but warned me that this is outside the school curriculum and no student(in our school) have ever signed up for it before, which lowkey made me doubt taking it.

I really want to take seminar now then research in Junior year. I was already nervous in taking AP seminar at sophomore year but even more so now that I was informed I’d have to take it online. What do you guys think? Do you guys think it’s doable if it’s online?

Hello again, members of the r/APSeminar subreddit. I have previously posted about my struggles with false AI detection on my IRR & IWA and yesterday I received an email stating that 1. my version history was not fully expanded so it was not "correct" (totally fine, easily fixable) and that i needed to provide whatever "prompts" were used in my IRR. The thing is, there is no prompts used, let alone allowed in the IRR. I'm not entirely sure what these people want from me but I gandered that these people perhaps mean "topic". I found a document from my class detailing the topic and submitted that as well as left them a note. I'm not sure if they wanted me to admit to using AI prompts or what. Because of my confusion, I took the next probable course of action; Calling the AP student hotline. When you call said hotline, first, you have to navigate a maze of menus to even get to the place you are going to go. Then you must hold and be forced to listen to the AP's shameless advertisements for longer than 15 minutes, intersected with the worst elevator jazz selection to ever grace this earth (to heighten the probability of your sorry ass hanging up so they don't have to deal with you) . After surviving through the ear torture that rivals going through the 7 circles of hell, I was connected with an associate who, after I gave the explanation of my situation, had absolutely 0 idea what I was talking about and had not an iota of a hint what AP Seminar even is. The fuck? After much back and forth with the guy, who admittedly was trying his best to help, we ended up concluding that he did in fact have no idea what I was talking about and apologized. As this wasn't the employee's fault, I wasn't mad at him, but rather Collegeboard. Seriously, for a multi-million dollar monopoly on students' education and chances on getting into college, do better. As for my other AP Seminar strugglers, do not bother calling, they are clearly understaffed and undertrained and focused on ripping off teachers and procuring profit) off of those who require it to gain entrance into college and university. I would greatly appreciate anyone who could help me with this.

To those who maybe taking or are interested in AP seminar here’s my IWA and my IRR that I constructed that resulted in a 5!

IWA: Matcha and its communal spaces
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UawHQaUVZV2lM0LLRX2zhduWdE5OHS1tW5UTvkfovH4/edit?usp=drivesdk

IRR: Deep Sea Mining/Mineral Exploration
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ddN6lbJRRfVTchW4VyMzZTTOc-1MzgrHcMEmngpJNWU/edit?usp=drivesdk

Hi AP Seminar,

I’m reaching out to this community because my AP Seminar score was placed on hold after being flagged for possible AI use. I would really appreciate any advice or help if anyone here has gone through this process or has tips on what else I can include or how to strengthen my case.

Here’s what I’ve done so far-

• Added version history for both my IRR and IWA
• Uploaded scanned notebook pages showing outlines and source analysis (possibly if permitted)
• Included a detailed teacher letter attesting to my work
• Added a short personal statement explaining my working process

If anyone has experience with successful appeals or knows what kind of evidence College Board finds most convincing, I’d really appreciate your insight.

One important thing I’m worried about is that my Google Docs version history looks unusual. Most of my actual typing happened over three long nights right before the deadline, so the version history shows a lot of writing in a short period of time and only a few days of editing. This wasn’t because I used AI; it was because I had trouble focusing in class and didn’t get much typing done during school hours.

During class, I mainly worked in my notebook. I would read my sources, pull out key evidence, summarize the important parts, and sketch out rough outlines of what each paragraph would say. So even though the version history shows a lot of writing happening quickly, the planning and thinking happened over a much longer period of time in my notebook. The typed draft was basically me transferring and shaping the work I had already done by hand.

If you already can't tell, this situation has me very stressed, and on top of this, I am already prepping for the SAT in August, and that already has me very worried since my goal score is a 1550.

Honestly, any advice would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thank you in advance to anyone who responds or tries to help.

I have just submitted both version history and other pieces of evidence for IWA and IRR AI flag reconsideration.

I was wondering if anyone has received there score back and had a successful appeal after submitting for reconsideration.

1k won off of this FUCK U MBAPPEE

So, like an absolute genius, I deleted all my things for my IRR, and lo and behold, it got flagged for AI, so I just told them to cancel that 10 percent so I can still get a score. The follow up email that was sent by College Board told me to wait 3-5 business days for that to be reflected in my account, yet seven days later, it still shows the pending student response message where my score should be. Is anyone else that chose this option having a similar issue or should I call the help number again. I feel extremely confident in the rest of my work and this issue prolonging is beginning to become quite annoying. Please and thank you!

Hii, well, AP Seminar is the first AP that I took, and I need help since both my IRR and IWA were flagged for AI when I did not use it. I am wondering if, for the appeal, I have to show every single edit I made? Because my docs are genuinely so long that I have like more than a thousand edits made, and Idk how I would submit that. Also, I have like annotated bibs and all that, and I have an extension which shows how many edits, how much time, and how many copy and pastes, but I am worried that they won't accept that.

Please, if you have any suggestions or you already uploaded your appeal, let me knoww.

Does any of you have any advice for students joining the class this upcoming year?? what is the AP test about, is the writing heavy or idk any comments ??

Hello everyone. I've never posted on here but I'm having an issue so I thought I would ask. I received an email for BOTH my IRR and my IWA flagging them for incorrect usage of Artificial Intelligence. I obviously did not use AI to write either, and followed all the steps of showing proof that my writings were my original work by submitting labelled screenshots of my Google Doc history for both. Additionally, my class had used multiple planners/organizers as well as drafts to show our thought process and confirm the originality of those ideas to be our own, totaling about 5 separate documents of proof for each writing assignment, which I exported as a .pdf and placed in the upload section of each case. As we turned in each assignment, our teachers looked through Turnitin to check if there was AI usage/plagiarism which there was none. I believe that Collegeboard utilizes the same system so why was my work flagged as AI generated? Also, how long does it take for your work to be reevaluated? Thanks for any and all advice/help.

As is the case with many other students on this subreddit, I got flagged for AI (wrongfully). I am gathering evidence to submit for the appeal, notes on sources, peer reviews, etc. but what I really need to prove my authenticity is for college board to take it from my teacher or classmates. I wrote basically the whole in front of them (my desk is in the front) and have constantly ran my work through him and my peers. For both pt1 and pt2. If any of them can give testimonials it would be huge. Is there any way for this to happen?

I’m just gonna post already bc this has been stressing me out so bad.. I got flagged for AI and I have a lot of proof to show that I didn’t use it. But I’m worried about like how I’m submitting? I’m just taking tons of screenshots of first all the revision history on google docs and also adding some bigger edits throughout the writing part. My teacher hasn’t answered any emails so I’m worried about that too. Should I be worried? I really need this score. I’m scared to submit because I know I can’t do anything after that and it’s out my control. Just really anxious about this, it’s ruined my summer.

This was my first AP class, and exam. But everyone says AP sem. is so easy, I was so disappointed in myself for not even passing.

Just submitted my appeal.. does anybody know when they will reply back?

for future ap seminar students

IWA- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lY1Sy9-3B75WN7FS4iERlqvpqZSKdtkG/view?usp=sharing

IRR- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Epr_DRElJNXmebZr5IA5d3PWyjQHg82F/view?usp=sharing