Responding to criticism of its earlier plan to begin the Advanced Placement World History exam around the year 1450, the College Board on Wednesday announced that it would begin the test with ...

I was saddened to hear of Daniel Doyle’s embittering stint as an AP World History exam reader at Colorado State University (The Chronicle, Letters, August 7). I assume that it was his first and last ...

The College Board adopted a new methodology for scoring Advanced Placement course exam—and as a result, the percentage of students passing in nine exams has increased over the last three years. The ...

For many popular exams, recent score reports reflect not a surge in student mastery, but a quiet lowering of the bar.

Florida's education chief announced a state-developed alternative to AP U.S. history for college credit, part of a fight ...

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 ...

The vast majority of Advanced Placement exams this May will be digital. The exams in English, history, social sciences and other subjects will move to the digital testing application, Bluebook, 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, ...