AP Exams: The Latest to Go Digital
Earlier this year, The College Board announced plans to transition all Advanced Placement (AP) exams to a digital format by 2025. This shift was motivated by concerns over the security of paper-based exams, a desire to make testing a fair and equitable experience, and to better align the exams with college-level expectations.
Starting in May 2025, sixteen AP exams will be administered entirely online, while twelve others will move to a hybrid format. The hybrid exams, which involve graphing or symbolic notation, will require students to answer free-response questions in a paper booklet and complete the rest of the exam online.
A summary of the changes is below:
- Sixteen exams will go fully virtual in May 2025; twelve exams will be hybrid.
- Eight additional exams will go virtual in the future.
- The digital exams will be taken in the Bluebook app.
- For the hybrid exams, students will view free-response questions and prompts online and write their answers in paper exam booklets.
- Starting in the 2024-2025 school year, students can access free online practice exams, quizzes, teacher-created materials, and test previews on the Bluebook app.
Going fully digital:
- AP African American Studies
- AP Art History
- AP Comparative Government and Politics
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
- AP Environmental Science
- AP European History
- AP Human Geography
- AP Latin
- AP Psychology
- AP Seminar
- AP United States Government and Politics
- AP United States History
- AP World History: Modern
Going hybrid:
- 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: Electricity and Magnetism
- AP Physics: Mechanics
- AP Precalculus
- AP Statistics