The College Board adopted a new methodology for scoring Advanced Placement course exam—and as a result, the percentage of students passing in nine exams has increased over the last three years. The ...

Each May, hundreds of thousands of high school students from across the United States take the Advanced Placement exam for English Literature and Composition. Each June, hundreds of high school and ...

Usually a rise in the number of Advanced Placement test takers is accompanied by a seesaw-like drop in average scores. But last year’s senior class in Montgomery County shattered previous records for ...

Two Silver Creek High School students in San Jose earned a perfect score on their AP Calculus BC test, East Side Union High School District officials said. A total of 136,000 students took the test ...

More Illinois students are taking Advanced Placement courses and scoring high on those exams compared to their peers in other states, the latest College Board data shows. In 2025, 31.4% of Illinois ...

The College Board announced Tuesday that the Maryland class of 2013 led the nation in high scoring on Advanced Placement tests. The New York-based organization said in a report that 29.1 percent of ...

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 ...

The number of Michigan high school students who took Advanced Placement classes in the past two years increased significantly from previous years, as did the number of students who scored successfully ...

CLEVELAND • Dan Robinson felt a sense of relief as he sat at The Corner Alley in downtown Cleveland on a Monday evening in mid-June. Robinson was an English professor for over 30 years at Colorado ...