AP Meanderings

For the past few decades, federal funding subsidized the cost of Advanced Placement exams for low-income students.  The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) may change the amount of the funding available and the distribution process.
ESSA reauthorizes the 50 year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and aggregates various federal programs under one umbrella.  The “Advanced Placement Test Fee Program”, suppling $28.5 million annually as the primary source of low-income...

The suggested fee for the 2017 AP Exams is increasing  $93.00, a $1.00 increase from the 2016 exam fees..   This was “announced” in the AP coordinator pre-conference work shops the AP Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.  The exam fee for Capstone (Seminar...

For the past several of years, Trevor Packer head of Advanced Placement has been tweeting the score distributions for the AP Exams as they become available.  You can follow @AP_Trevor on Twitter to receive these tweets.
Total Registration is once again compiling all these score distributions in a table that can be easily sorted to view the data in different ways.  The 2016 exam score distributions as well as Trevor’s insightful comments regarding each exam can be found...

The 2016 “suggested” AP Exam Fee will be $92.00, a $1.00 increase from the 2015 AP Exam Fee.  The exam fee increase was informally announced during the AP Coordinator pre-conference workshops at the 2015 AP Annual Conference in Austin last week.  AP...