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

The Advanced Placement (AP) program allows students to earn college credit for qualifying exam scores. A student’s performance on the AP exams will determine whether advanced placement and credit will ...

In the article “Here’s Why More Students Have Passed AP Exams in Recent Years ” (Aug. 2, 2024), the reporter raises an important question: “[The College Board’s scoring adjustments] led some educators ...

This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

More public high school students are taking Advanced Placement courses and exams than at any time since 2018. The number of Michigan students taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes in 2023 increased ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of New Jersey high school students are taking the AP lit exam today, May 7, one of the longest and most widely taken ...

More Ector County ISD students are taking Advanced Placement (AP) exams and more are earning qualifying scores than any time in the past five years. Since COVID cancellations nationwide in 2020, ECISD ...

In 2025, California students took 812,284 Advanced Placement (AP) exams -- 6% more than the year before. Nearly 575,000 exams earned a score of 3 or higher. AP Exams are scored on a scale of 1 to 5, ...