AP is a collaborative effort among students, their high schools, and the colleges and universities that offer credit, placement, and admission benefits based on students’ AP experiences. Course revisions affect different populations of the AP community in unique ways.

Teachers may visit the subject-specific pages on this website to learn about course revisions. Information for other members of the AP community appears below.

Students and Parents
Administrators, Counselors, and AP Coordinators
Colleges and Universities

Students and Parents

The College Board revises its courses periodically to ensure that they support student achievement and reflect the most current thinking in each discipline. This process, which relies on input from eminent educators nationwide, results in academically challenging, first-year college-level courses, designed to qualify students for credit or advanced placement at colleges and universities. This website provides information on AP course and exam revisions. For more details, contact your district, school, or AP teacher.

Administrators, Counselors, and AP Coordinators

• Curriculum Framework
  The frameworks, which align with best practices in college curricula, articulate the content and skills covered in the course and assessed on the exam. They also provide teachers with the flexibility to pursue topics in greater depth. Download the frameworks from the subject-specific pages on this website.
• Course Audit
  Teachers of revised courses must submit a syllabus that reflects an in-depth understanding of the new course. Dates for submitting syllabi vary. Visit the AP Course Audit Calendar for details.
• Exam Administration
  The revised exams remain consistent with the current exams in length and feature multiple-choice and free-response questions. Visit the subject-specific pages on this website for more information about the AP Exams.
• Resources
  It is unlikely that schools will need to purchase new textbooks or other resources to accommodate course revisions. For information on how to incorporate revisions into existing curricula, refer to the subject-specific curriculum framework.
• Timeline
  Visit the AP Course and Exam Timeline for important dates, deadlines, and resources related to course revisions.

Colleges and Universities

Distinguished higher education faculty members play a vital role in every stage of the revision process, which includes participating in surveys and curriculum studies to verify that the revised learning objectives align with college-level expectations. Our dedicated consortium of experts and the critical work of AP teachers guarantee rich, rigorous college-level curricula and exams.

Details on course revisions appear on the subject-specific pages of this website.