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.

2022 AP Exam Schedule

The 2022 AP Exams will be administered as paper-and-pencil exams only over two weeks in May: May 2–6 and May 9–13. 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: 

• Students must have either a valid passport to register and take AP Exams.  
• Must be under the age of 21 at the time of the exams. (Born after May 31, 2001)
• Can take any or all of the 4 Physics exams in the same year.
• Cannot retake an exam in the same year; you may retake it in a subsequent year.
• Cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC Exams in the same year.
• AP Computer Science Principles Exam: To register, you must show you are enrolled in the corresponding AP course as there is an portfolio component that your AP teacher must review to receive a complete AP Exam score. 
• For the other exams we offer, course enrollment is not required. 
• You cannot take 2 regular exams scheduled at the same date and time. Decide which exam you wish to take first and then take the other exam during the late testing window. 

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 registration period):
Register for AP Exams: Link to pdf

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.