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AP®: Advanced Placement Program® Exams

Alliance World School, NOIDA

The AP Program offers college-level courses and exams you can take in high school.
With qualifying AP Exam scores, students can earn credit and/or advanced placement or both.

  • College Board's Advanced Placement Program is recognized by universities around the world as a standard of academic excellence.
  • Launched in 1955, originally designed as a means for students in the U.S. to earn college credit and/or advanced placement for learning university-level material while in secondary school. Today, secondary students worldwide can complete university-level coursework in 40 subjects and demonstrate proficiency by taking standardized end-of-course AP Exams.
  • Nearly all colleges and universities in the United States and more than 4000 universities in 100 countries, (such as the U.K., Canada, Singapore, the Middle East, etc.), consider AP participation favourably for admission and have policies around AP credit and placement.
  • AP Exams are administered once every year during the first two weeks of May.

Students are strongly encouraged to register during the first window, between September and November (prior to the testing year), to ensure they have ample time to prepare.

To know about AP visit the website: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/ap-a-glance

For taking AP in India visit College Board’s website: https://international.collegeboard.org/students/ap/taking-ap-india

Access the list of Universities around the world offering AP credits: https://international.collegeboard.org/find-universities-that-recognize-ap-sat

Some benefits of Taking AP Program Exams:
AP enables students like you to:

  • Stand out in Colleges/Universities admission
  • An Edge in College
  • Earn College Credit and Placement
  • Keep Your Options Open
  • Skip introductory university classes
  • Save money on tuition
  • Build skills and confidence

A Head Start in High School: Research consistently shows that AP students are better prepared for college than students who don’t take AP, regardless of their exam score. They’re more likely to enrol and stay in college, do well in their classes, and graduate in four years.

  • Get a Taste of College
  • Develop College Skills
  • Discover your Passion
  • Boost your GPA

Read: How AP Helped 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.

ALLIANCE WORLD SCHOOL, C-54A, Sector-56, NOIDA is authorised by the AP Program to administer the 2026 AP Exams. The exams are administered only in May each year and require advance registration. Authorised AP test centres manage AP Exam registration in India. Students will follow registration and payment instructions provided by their preferred testing location. Because test centres operate independently, their exam offerings, deadlines, fees, exam cancellation and refund policies and procedures may vary. Learn More Here

Testing-Mode AP EXAM-2026 (Regular-Testing & Late-Testing)

AP-2026 Exams shall be administered digitally in school on student’s own approved Testing-Device (Windows, Mac or iPad).
Students will have to bring an approved and Fully-Charged Testing-Device (Windows, Mac or iPad) with Bluebook app. installed on exam day.
Details about AP-2026 Digital-Exams can be accessed here

Fully-Digital Exams:Hybrid-Digital Exams:
Fully-Digital exams shall be administered
in school on student’s own approved device
(Windows, Mac or iPad):

Students shall complete the multiple-choice
and free-response questions in Bluebook app
https://bluebook.collegeboard.org/students.
Responses shall automatically submitted at the end
of the exam.

Hybrid-Digital exams shall be
administered in school on student’s
own approved device (Windows, Mac or iPad):

Students shall complete the multiple-choice questions
and view free-response questions in Bluebook app
https://bluebook.collegeboard.org/students.
They handwrite their free-response answers in paper
exam booklets and will submit it to the proctor at the end
of the exam. 

Subjects (Fully-Digital AP Exams)
• AP Art History 
• AP Comparative Government and Politics 
• AP Computer Science A
• AP English Language and Composition  
• AP English Literature and Composition  
• AP Environmental Science 
• AP European History  
• AP Human Geography 
• AP Psychology 
• AP United States Government and Politics 
• AP United States History  
• AP World History: Modern 
Subjects (Hybrid-Digital AP Exams)
• AP Biology  
• AP Calculus AB 
• AP Calculus BC 
• AP Chemistry 
• AP Macroeconomics  
• AP Microeconomics 
• AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based  
• AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based 
• AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 
• AP Physics C: Mechanics 
• AP Precalculus 
• AP Statistics  

AP EXAM SCHEDULE for May-2026

The 2026 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May: May 4–8 and May 11–15. Early testing or testing at times other than those published by College Board is not permitted under any circumstances. Late-testing dates are available if students cannot test during the first two weeks of May.

Exam AdministrationDates for AP Exams in 2026Testing Modes
AP Exam Regular Testing04 May to 08 May 2026
11 May to 15 May 2026
Fully-Digital/Hybrid-Digital in person at Exam Center
AP Exam Late Testing18 May to 22 May 2026
Fully-Digital/Hybrid-Digital in person at Exam Center

AP Regular-Testing Exam Schedule can be accessed here
If you’re unable to take your AP Exam on the scheduled date due to unforeseen circumstances, or if you have two exams that fall at the same time, our center provides the option of late testing. These exams are administered in line with the official late-testing dates and times published by AP.
AP Late-Testing Exam Schedule can be accessed here

AP EXAM-2026 REGISTRATION

AP EXAM-2026 REGISTRATION TIMELINE:

  • AP Exam Registration Start Date: 15 September 2025
  • AP Exam Registration End Date: 11 November 2025 (11:59 PM IST)

FEE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF AP-2026 EXAM(s) (INR):

  • Regular-Testing: Rs. /- Per AP Exam (incl. GST)
  • Late-Testing : Rs. /- Per AP Exam (incl. GST)

WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO BRING ON EXAM DAY:

  • Fully charged an approved testing device with Bluebook installed.
  • Charging cord/AC adapter that is compatible with their testing device.
  • Pencils or pens for making notes on school-provided scratch paper.
  • External mouse (optional).
  • External keyboard if testing with an iPad or Windows tablet.
  • Admission-Ticket and Personal ID in original.

CANDIDATE'S ELIGIBILITY FOR REGISTERING AP EXAM(S):
Students in any of the categories below are eligible to take AP Exams at the secondary school where they're enrolled or at other AP-authorized schools or test centers:

  • Students actively enrolled in secondary school.
  • Secondary school-level students who are homeschooled, participate in independent study, or attend a virtual school.
  • Actively enrolled students who may be prepared to take an AP Exam prior to the ninth grade.
  • Recent secondary school graduates who need a specific AP Exam for university admissions.

Students will need to pay the exam fee to the test center, register online with the College Board and share the details to the test center by the stated deadline to complete AP Exam registration, or will not be able to test.

DIGITAL AP EXAM & TESTING DEVICE POLICIES:

  • Students will have to bring their own approved, Fully-Charged and Bluebook app. installed Testing-Device (Windows, Mac or iPad) to the test center on exam day, or will not be able to test. Device requirements
  • Learn more about testing on Bluebook and their digital testing requirements here
  • o Download Bluebook on the approved testing device prior to exam day.
    o Practice exams in Bluebook are available.

STUDENT'S ID POLICY:
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
  • The ID must bear a recent, recognisable photograph that clearly matches the student's appearance on test day and the photo submitted at registration.
  • 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.
  • No Digital copies or paper copies of ID Proof will be accepted.

  • ADDITIONAL TESTING POLICIES:

    • You can take any or all of the 4 physics exams in the same year.
    • You cannot retake an exam in the same year, although you may retake it in a subsequent year.
    • You cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC in the same year.
    • You cannot take 2 exams scheduled at the same date and time. Decide which exam you wish to take first and then take the other exam during the next testing window.
    • AP Exams shall be held Fully-Digital/Hybrid-Digital in person at the test center.

    Eligible candidates will have to create a MyAP account on College Board’s website for registering for AP exams:
    Create an account only if you do not already have one you use for SAT, PSAT, AP.) Important: Each year, students face issues on exam day because they did not use their legal name on their College Board account and AP Profile. To avoid such problems, always create and update your College Board account using your legal first name (given name) and legal last name (family, surname) as it appears on the passport or ID you will bring to the test center.
    Link to My AP account: https://myap.collegeboard.org/login

    AP Exams Calculator Policy:
    Get details on what types and brands of calculators you can and can’t use, which AP Exams you can use calculators on, and essential tips here

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    PROCEED TO REGISTER FOR AP EXAM

    Join-Codes, AP-Exam-Registration-Instructions and AP-Exam-Fee can be accessed here

    Register for AP Exams

    Note: Students must complete their AP Exam registration by using the preferred Test Center’s join code for each subject, following the steps outlined in the AP Exam registration instructions within the specified deadlines and paying the exam fee to the AP test centre through the Registration Policy.
    Please note that deadline extensions will not be granted.

    Mr. Mamoon Farid
    AP Exam Coordinator
    Alliance World School
    C-54A, Sector-56, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
    Phone: +91-9311250037