College Board · College credit and placement, taken in school alongside an AP course.
Advanced Placement exams
Not one exam but dozens, all reported on the same five-point scale, all in two weeks of May.
Every claim, and where it came from
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Score scale 1–5 CONFIRMED
One scale, every subject.
AP score scale table: scores run 1–5.
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
A score of 5 Extremely well qualified CONFIRMED
College grade equivalent: A+ or A.
AP score scale table: 5 — "Extremely well qualified"; college grade equivalent "A+ or A".
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
A score of 4 Very well qualified CONFIRMED
College grade equivalent: A−, B+ or B.
AP score scale table: 4 — "Very well qualified"; college grade equivalent "A-, B+, or B".
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
A score of 3 Qualified CONFIRMED
College grade equivalent: B−, C+ or C. Many colleges award credit from 3.
AP score scale table: 3 — "Qualified"; college grade equivalent "B-, C+, or C".
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
A score of 2 Possibly qualified CONFIRMED
AP score scale table: 2 — "Possibly qualified".
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
A score of 1 No recommendation CONFIRMED
AP score scale table: 1 — "No recommendation".
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
What a score means A recommendation, not a guarantee CONFIRMED
Each college sets its own credit policy.
AP score scale table: the table "shows the recommendation that each AP score offers about how qualified you are to receive college credit and placement if you earn that score."
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/ap-score-scale-table
2027 exam window 3–7 May and 10–14 May 2027 CONFIRMED
Two weeks, in school.
AP exam dates: "The 2027 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May: May 3–7 and May 10–14."
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/exam-dates
Late testing Available CONFIRMED
Dates are published separately by College Board.
AP exam dates page: late-testing dates are offered for students unable to test in the primary May window, listed on a separate page.
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/exam-dates
When you can sit it
No calendar. May 2027.
AP is a family of exams, not a single test, and each subject has its own length and its own paper. This page does not publish per-subject timings, because it has not read all of them — College Board's course pages have them subject by subject. What is here is what is true of all of them: the scale, and the fortnight.
Practice, from the people who write it
AP Classroom and official practice through your school, plus free course pages. Official practice for the AP Exams.
This site reproduces no testing body’s questions. Official practice material is the only material written by the people who write the real test, and it is free for every test on this list.