The Advanced Placement Program® (AP®)
The AP Program offers college-level courses and exams you can take in high school. With qualifying AP Exam scores, students can earn credit and/or advanced placement or both.
- College Board’s Advanced Placement Program is recognized by universities around the world as a standard of academic excellence.
- Launched in 1955, originally designed as a means for students in the U.S. to earn college credit and/or advanced placement for learning university-level material while in secondary school. Today, secondary students worldwide can complete university-level coursework in 40 subjects and demonstrate proficiency by taking standardized end-of-course AP Exams.
Nearly all colleges and universities in the United States and more than 4000 universities in 100 countries, (such as the U.K., Canada, Singapore, the Middle East, etc.), consider AP participation favourably for admission and have policies around AP credit and placement.
AP Exams are administered once every year during the first two weeks of May.
Students are strongly encouraged to register during the first window, between September and November (prior to the testing year), to ensure they have ample time to prepare.
For more information visit College Board’s website:
https://international.collegeboard.org/students/ap/taking-ap-india
Find International Universities Recognizing AP and SAT:
https://international.collegeboard.org/find-universities-that-recognize-ap-sat
Some Benefits of
Taking AP Program Exams
AP enable motivated students like you to:
Stand out to Colleges
An Edge in College
Earn College Credit and Placement
Keep Your Options Open
Skip introductory university classes
Save money on tuition
A Head Start in High School: Research consistently shows that AP students are better prepared for college than students who don’t take AP, regardless of their exam score. They’re more likely to enrol and stay in college, do well in their classes, and graduate in four years.
Get a Taste of College
Develop College Skills
Discover your Passion
Boost your GPA
Read how AP helped these students.
Review AP course descriptions you want to test in. Each description explains which topics are covered in the AP course and what might be on the exam.
Authorized AP Test Center
HOPETOWN GIRLS’ SCHOOL, DEHRADUN is authorised by the AP Program to administer the 2026 AP Exams. The exams are administered only in May each year and require advance registration.
Authorised AP test centres manage AP Exam registration in India. Students will follow registration and payment instructions provided by their preferred testing location.
Because test centres operate independently, their exam offerings, deadlines, fees, exam cancellation and refund policies and procedures may vary. Learn More
AP EXAM REGISTRATION FOR STUDENTS
2026 AP Exam Schedule
The 2026 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May: May 4–8 and May 11–15. Early testing or testing at times other than those published by College Board is not permitted under any circumstances.
Late-testing dates are available if students cannot test during the first two weeks of May, however, our centre does not administer AP late testing.
May 4, 2026
May 5, 2026
May 6, 2026
May 7, 2026
May 8, 2026
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Human Geography - (Fully Digital)
World History: Modern (Fully Digital)
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Microeconomics (Hybrid)
Physics 1: Algebra-Based (Hybrid)
May 11, 2026
May 12, 2026
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May 14, 2026
May 15, 2026
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Calculus BC (HYBRID)
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Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism (HYBRID)
2026 AP ELIGIBILITY POLICY
Students in any of the categories below are eligible to take AP Exams at the secondary school where they’re enrolled or at other AP-authorized schools or test centers:
- Students actively enrolled in secondary school.
- Secondary school-level students who are homeschooled, participate in independent study, or attend a virtual school.
- Actively enrolled students who may be prepared to take an AP Exam prior to the ninth grade.
- Recent secondary school graduates who need a specific AP Exam for university admission.
TESTING POLICIES
- You can take any or all of the 4 physics exams in the same year.
- You cannot retake an exam in the same year, although you may retake it in a subsequent year.
- You cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC in the same year.
- You cannot take 2 exams scheduled at the same date and time. Decide which exam you wish to take first and then take the other exam during the next testing window.
ID POLICY FOR TEST CENTERS IN INDIA
Please plan any ID processing and applications in advance. Ensure you have acceptable ID to bring to the test site on exam day or you will not be able to test.
- AP-authorized test centers in India will only accept original, valid passport as ID for entry to the AP Exam administration.
- The ID must bear a recent, recognisable photograph that clearly matches the student’s appearance on test day and the photo submitted at registration.
- If original, valid passport is not available, then student must have the Aadhaar in either original Letter format or the PVC version with hologram only (both received from UIDAI). No other Aadhaar versions will be accepted.
- A sample of the letter version is shown on the left; it’s the entire piece of paper and not just the card portion at the bottom. The PVC card sample is on the right.
- No Digital copies or paper copies of ID Proof will be accepted
Students must have a College Board account to register and take
digital exams. Link to My AP account:https://myap.collegeboard.org/login
(Create an account only if you do not already have one you use for SAT, PSAT, AP.)
Important: Each year, students face issues on exam day because they did not use their legal name on their College Board account and AP Profile. To avoid such problems, always create and update your College Board account using your legal first name (given name) and legal last name (family, surname) as it appears on the passport or ID you will bring to the test center.
AP Exams Calculator Policy : Get details on what types and brands of calculators you can and can’t use, which AP Exams you can use calculators on, and essential tips
DIGITAL AP EXAM POLICIES
The student must bring their OWN APPROVED TESTING DEVICE to the test centre on exam day, or else will not be able to test. Device requirements – https://bluebook.collegeboard.org/students/approved-devices
To learn more about testing on Bluebook and their digital testing requirements, – https://bluebook.collegeboard.org/students
- Download Bluebook on the approved testing device prior to exam day.
- Practice exams in Bluebook are available.
Additional testing policies
- You can take any or all of the 4 physics exams in the same year.
- You cannot retake an exam in the same year, although you may retake it in a subsequent year.
- You cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC in the same year.
- You cannot take 2 exams scheduled at the same date and time.
- Decide which exam you wish to take first and then take the other exam during the next testing window.
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS –
Students must complete their AP Exam registration by using the preferred Test Center’s join code for each subject, following the steps outlined in the AP Exam registration instructions within the specified deadlines and paying the exam fee to the AP test centre (Check registration Policy above for join codes). Please note that deadline extensions will not be granted.
Please find detailed information about our Test Centre’s AP Exam policy and Registration process, including the Exam Fee, at the Link to the Registration Policy.
REGISTRATION TIMELINE –
STUDENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I acknowledge that in order to take AP Exams, I meet at least one of the eligibility categories below:
- Students who are actively enrolled in secondary school.
- Secondary school-level students who are homeschooled, participate in independent study, or attend a virtual school.
- Actively enrolled students who may be prepared to take an AP Exam prior to the ninth grade.
- Recent secondary school graduates who need a specific AP Exam for university admission.
- I acknowledge that I meet the student eligibility criteria and have a legitimate need for AP testing.
I acknowledge that I will need to pay the test center directly AND register online with the College Board by the stated test center deadlines to complete my AP Exam registration and receive an Admission Ticket from the test center, or I will not be able to test.
I acknowledge that I have read and agree to test center policies above, with respect to Id Policy, Payment deadline, payment instructions, refunds and cancellations, digital testing policies.
