If there are no in-person classes in many places I can't imagine all of these courses are going to work in the first place. When I was in high school, I had the misfortune of taking AP Chemistry during a year when the building that had chemistry labs was damaged in a storm and closed. No one passed the test that year.
A better source is the College Board’s own announcement [0].
[0]: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...
How in the world do they plan to be able to stop a student taking the test on their PC from Googling the answers on their phone, or vice versa? Or asking a friend instead of Google?
College Board should have punted the tests back to the fall. The tests are missing quite a bit of content[0], for example, Calculus BC has little to no more required content than Calculus AB (no parametrics/polars, nothing much with series other than identification). Since the kids will most likely have to retake these classes once they get into college due to the content deficit, I don't really see the point of it this year.
If they moved them back to fall / late summer, kids would've had more time to prepare, and the full tests could've been administered so the credits would've been given fairly. I assume the reason they aren't doing this is because it would be impossible to schedule a traditional AP reading for the teachers to grade the tests, but they could do it remotely as they will be doing with this (schedule readings on the weekends to be done remotely? they are only a few days long anyway).
With that being said, if I was still in High School, i'd probably be pleading with my AP coordinator to let me take more tests because of the advantage... but I digress (and I doubt college board would have let me anyway). darn it. one year later and no physics in college.
0: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...