AP Exams


2019-2020 AP Exam Dates + Format + Course-Specific Content = A Great Opportunity to Get Ahead in the College Admissions Game and Earn College Credit

(This is a follow-up to our previous post, Changes to 2019-2020 AP Classes and Exams: Options, Resources, and Best Strategies for College Admissions) The CollegeBoard has posted rescheduled AP dates and regional times as well as the form, content, scoring information, exam security, and other details surrounding this year’s exams in light of the COVID-19 school shutdowns in mid-March. Students in most AP courses this year only will have a choice between two exam dates, one during the week of 5/11 or 5/18, and another the week of 6/1 (officially called “makeup exam dates”). There is no advantage to choosing […]


Changes to 2019-2020 AP Classes and Exams: Options, Resources, and Best Strategies for College Admissions

While the CollegeBoard is still hammering out a revised schedule of AP exam dates for 2019-2020, the company has posted enough information for students to make quality decisions about how best to complete their AP coursework and prepare for their exam(s). Among the biggest academic disappointments the COVID-19 school closings have caused is that AP students, who worked extra hard for the first three quarters of the year in some of the most challenging (and interesting) classes offered at any high school, suddenly don’t get to play the fourth quarter—or at least not a regulation fourth quarter. I feel especially […]


PARENTS: Get Your Kids’ Subject Test and AP Prep Books EARLY IN THE SCHOOL YEAR

The best prep for both Subject Tests (the one-hour, subject specific tests required by many top schools) and the more rigorous AP Exams (given in May, near the conclusion of each AP course) is a well-designed class and a good teacher. Sometimes students get lucky and need little extra prep because their class was so solid; MOST students, however, need to prepare for each Subject Test and AP Exam in much the same way they do for the SATs and ACTs, that is, by purchasing a book (or two or three) and learning material and taking practice tests. In the […]


Parent Tip #17: Buy Your Kids’ Subject Test and/or AP Test Prep Books EARLY IN THE SCHOOL YEAR

The best prep for either a Subject Test (the one-hour, subject specific tests required by many top schools) and the more rigorous AP Exams (given in May, near the conclusion of each AP course) is a well-designed class and a good teacher. Sometimes students get lucky and need little extra prep because their class was so solid; MOST students, however, need to prepare for each Subject Test and AP Exam in much the same way they do for the SATs and ACTs, that is, by purchasing a book (or two or three) and learning material and taking practice tests.   […]