The 2026 AP Exams will run May 4th through May 15the. The official College Board schedule can be viewed at: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/exam-dates. If you have any questions about exam dates or times, please contact Ms. Courtney Wolf, wolfc@pt-sd.org, in the High School Counseling Office.
Digital and Hybrid Exam Administration Information
- The AP Exam will be administered at Peters Township High School during the school day.
- All students must download and update the Bluebook Application on their district issued device.
- You will be required to complete AP Exam check-in on your Testing Device.
- You will not be able to keep working on a question after time expires.
- You will be able to go backward within a section or part, however you will not be able to go backward to a previous section or part.
- You cannot use any other program or application while the Application is running, and you cannot paste work into the Application from another program or application.
- You must enter your answers in the Application as only answers in the Application can be submitted for scoring. Answer submission may not occur through any other means.
- Answer submission happens automatically if your Testing Device is connected to the internet when the AP Exam ends. If your answers were successfully submitted, you will see a confirmation screen indicating so.
- However, if your device is not connected to the internet when the AP Exam ends, you will need to connect to the internet during the submission window and follow the directions in the Application to submit your answers.
- College Board will score all AP Exams that have been started, even if a submission is incomplete or a submission error occurs. Follow the provided submission instructions and submit during the submission window to ensure that all of your answers are scored.
AP Testing Security and Administration Policies and Procedures
College Board test security and test administration policies and procedures are designed to protect the integrity of the AP Exam and AP Exam scores. When College Board determines that a student’s testing experience did not meet College Board’s standards for administering exams—even through no fault of the student— College Board reserves the right to cancel an AP Exam score. The decision to cancel an AP Exam score is difficult; nonetheless, AP Exam scores must be canceled when College Board believes it is warranted to protect the integrity of the AP Exam for all AP students and for the colleges and universities that grant credit or advanced placement for qualifying AP scores.
Violation of College Board test security policies may also result in a student being prohibited from taking other College Board assessments in the future, as detailed below. College Board reserves the right to decline to score an AP Exam or cancel an AP Exam score when, in its judgment, any of the following occurs:
Exam Security Policy
AP Exams are given on the same day around the world, it is critical that students taking the exam follow policies and procedures to keep the questions secure. The security policies and procedures are as follow:
- Students must not access any exam materials until instructed to do so by the proctor.
- Students may not, under any circumstances:
- remove exam content or materials from the testing room
- Give materials to anyone else
Electronic Devices
The following electronic equipment is prohibited in the exam room and break area: Phones, smartwatches, or wearable technology of any kind, laptops, tablet computers, Bluetooth devices, portable listening or recording devices, cameras or other photographic equipment, devices that can access the internet, separate timers of any type, and any other electronic or communication devices. A student observed with any of these devices during testing or breaks may be dismissed from the exam, the device may be confiscated, the student’s score may be canceled, and no retest may be permitted.
- Calculators are also prohibited unless they are allowed or required for specific exams.
- Students may not consult textbooks, notes, teachers, other students, or any other resource (including the prohibited equipment listed above) during the exam or during the break between Sections I and II of the exam, or during any unscheduled breaks.
- Students may not leave the building at any time during the test administration, including during a break.
The only approved devices allowed in the exam room is a student's District Issued Device and charging cord.
Disclosure of Secure Test Items:
The AP exam is intended to be a fair assessment of your academic ability. Sharing exam information in any unauthorized way compromises the integrity of the exam for all AP students, and for the colleges and universities that grant credit or advanced placement for qualifying AP scores. If you post to any form of social media during the exam or refer to unreleased exam content at any time after the exam, your score will be canceled, no retest will be permitted, and you may be banned from future testing.
College Board will automatically cancel your exam score if you are discovered disclosing through any means the following:
- multiple-choice content for any exam (this content is never released and may therefore never be discussed
- free-response content from a late-testing exam
- free-response content from a regularly scheduled exam within 2 days of its administration
- free-response content that is not released on the College Board website 2 days after the regularly scheduled exam administration
- If a student posts to any form of social media during the exam, or refers to unreleased exam content (multiple-choice, free-response, or short-answer response content) at any time after the exam, the student’s score will be canceled, no retest will be permitted, and the student may be banned from future testing on AP, SAT, or CLEP exams.
Rule Violations:
- Obtaining or attempting to obtain improper access to the exam, a part of the exam, or information about the exam.
- Removing a page or portions of a page from the exam book.
- Attempting to remove from the testing room any part of the exam or any notes relating to the exam.
- Referring to, looking through, or working on any exam, or exam section, other than during the timed testing period for that exam or exam section.
- Accessing or attempting to access any prohibited aids.
- Having subject-related information on your clothing, shoes, or body.
- Leaving the testing room, building, or designated break are without permission and/or taking an extended break.
- Accessing or attempting to access a phone of any kind or prohibited electronic device during testing or during breaks.
- Copying the work of another student or from published or unpublished sources or submitting work that is not their own.
- Attempting to give or get assistance, or otherwise communicate, through any means, with another person about the exam during the exam administration, including breaks.
- Attempting to take the exam for someone else.
- Creating a disturbance.
- Using testing accommodations that have not been preapproved by the College Board SSD Office.
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