AP Exams

College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® is recognized by universities around the world as a standard of academic excellence.  Since 1955, the AP® Program has enabled millions of students to take U.S. university undergraduate-level courses and earn undergraduate degree credit, advanced placement, or both while still in high school/secondary school. 

Nearly all colleges and universities in the United States and Canada — as well as more than 700 universities worldwide — consider AP Exam scores for admission, and grant credit and placement for qualifying AP Exam scores. Most universities also acknowledge course participation, regardless of AP score, favourably in the admission process.

AP Exams are administered once every year during the first two-three weeks of May. Registration in the Fall prior to the testing year is strongly recommended to ensure students have time to prepare.

For more information visit the College Board’s website.

Click here to access the list of Universities around the world offering AP credits.

Some Benefits of Taking AP Program Exams

AP enables students like you to:

• Stand out in university admissions
• Earn university credit
• Skip introductory university classes
• Save money on tuition
• Build skills and confidence
• Earn higher first-year grades at university (per Research)

Read how AP helped these students.

Review the AP course descriptions for the subject(s) you want to test in. Each description explains which topics are covered in the AP course—and what might be on the exam.

AP Exam Registration For Students:

KC High, Chennai is authorized by the College Board to administer AP Exams.

2023 AP Exam Schedule

The 2023 AP Exams will be administered as paper-and-pencil exams only over two weeks in May: May 1-5 and May 8-12. Early testing or testing at times other than those published by AP is not permitted under any circumstances. 

Our center currently does not offer AP Exams that require additional equipment or that have a course portfolio component (language exams, Music Theory, Art and Design, Seminar and Research).  Below is a list of the exams that we offer:

Our center offers late testing for circumstances where necessary, following the scheduled late-testing dates and times published by AP. Here are the late exam subjects our center offers:

TESTING POLICIES: 

Candidate eligibility: Students must be enrolled in or affiliated with a secondary school (high school) to take AP Exams. 

• Students in any of the categories below are eligible to test:
• Students testing at the secondary school where they’re enrolled.
• Students enrolled at a secondary school but testing at another authorized school or test center.
• Secondary school-level students who are homeschooled, participate in independent study, or attend a virtual school.
• Younger students who are not yet enrolled in secondary school (i.e., below ninth grade) but are prepared to take an AP Exam.

Prospective exam takers who do not meet the above requirements and have a legitimate need for AP testing must request approval via email from College Board at aptestsecurity@collegeboard.org, prior to registering with a test center.

Candidates testing at authorized centers in India: Students must be under the age of 21 at the time of the exams in May 2023. (Born after May 31, 2002)

ID Policy for test centers in India: Please plan any ID processing and applications in advance. Ensure you have acceptable ID to bring to the test site on exam day or you will not be able to test.

• AP-authorized test centers in India will only accept original, valid passport as ID for entry to the AP Exam administration.
• If original, valid passport is not available, then student must have the Aadhaar in either original Letter format or the PVC version with hologram only (both received from UIDAI). No other Aadhaar versions will be accepted.

Additional testing policies:

• Students can take any or all of the 4 physics exams in the same year.
• Students cannot retake an exam in the same year, although they may retake it in a subsequent year.
• Students cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC in the same year.
• Students cannot take 2 exams scheduled at the same date and time. They should decide which exam they wish to take first and then take the other exam during the next testing window.
• (If offered by a test center) Prerequisite for AP Computer Science Principles Exam: To register for this exam, students must be enrolled in the corresponding AP course. Students must submit portfolio work and complete the end-of-course exam to receive a complete AP Exam score.
• AP Exams at test centers are paper-and-pencil based and administered in person at the test center. In-person digital exam options are not available for students outside the U.S. at this time.

REGISTRATION TIMELINE

Students will need a student account with College Board to register.

Link to My AP account: https://myap.collegeboard.org/login  (Create an account only if you do not already have one you use for SAT, PSAT, AP.)

Find detailed information related to our Test Centre’s AP Exam policy and Registration process, Exam Fee in the .PDF document listed below (available during the registration period):
Register for AP Exams: (Click here for students’ registration instructions)

Students must ensure that they have registered for all AP Exams, paid the exam fee to the AP test center, and completed the entire process mentioned in the AP Exam registration instructions by the deadlines listed. There will be no extensions to the deadlines allowed later.