The College Board’s Advanced Placement exams play an outsized role in American schooling. While they are taken by only a small slice of high schoolers, their prestige and visibility means they have a ...

One night in May 1986, Trevor Packer’s mother received a phone call from his high school principal. The boy had failed to sign up for the college-level Advanced Placement European history exam the ...

There are no shortcuts on the road to earning the required number of credits to graduate college. But there are head starts. By earning a sufficiently high score on an Advanced Placement exam, ...

If you’re in an AP class, then you understand the stress of knowing AP exams are right around the corner. The exam season won’t start until May 7, but it’ll be here before we know it. So whether ...

High school students in Advanced Placement classes study hard for long and challenging AP exams given the first two weeks in May. Before the students get their grades, however, thousands of teachers ...

Nine AP exams will be administered in a digital format for the May 2025 testing season, the College Board announced in July. The tests will still be taken on the high school’s campus and will have the ...