2025 AP Exam Dates

The 2025 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May: May 5–9 and May 12–16. AP coordinators are responsible for notifying students when and where to report for the exams. 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. See the late-testing schedule.

United States Government and Politics

English Literature and Composition

Comparative Government and Politics

Computer Science A

African American Studies

Japanese Language and Culture

World History: Modern

Italian Language and Culture

United States History

Chinese Language and Culture

French Language and Culture

Physics 2: Algebra-Based

English Language and Composition

German Language and Culture

Physics C: Mechanics

Spanish Language and Culture

Computer Science Principles

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

Physics 1: Algebra-Based

Spanish Literature and Culture

Please note:

• AP coordinators should order late-testing exams for students who would like to take exams that are scheduled for the same time.
• Schools must begin the morning exam administration between 8 and 9 a.m. local time and the afternoon exam administration between 12 and 1 p.m. local time.
• Schools in Alaska (update for 2025 AP Exams): Schools in Alaska must now also begin the morning exam administration between 8 and 9 a.m. local time and the afternoon exam administration between 12 and 1 p.m. local time. Unlike previous AP Exam administrations, schools in Alaska no longer begin the exam administration 1 hour earlier than other states.
• AP Seminar end-of-course exams are only available to students taking AP Seminar at a school that has signed up to offer AP Seminar or participate in the AP Capstone Diploma Program.
• Note: This year, AP African American Studies exams can only be ordered and administered by schools in the U.S.
  
• April 30, 2025 (11:59 p.m. ET) is the deadline for:
  • AP Seminar and AP Research students to submit performance tasks as final and their presentations to be scored by their AP Seminar or AP Research teachers.
  • AP Computer Science Principles students to submit their Create performance task as final.

  Late Testing

  Occasionally, circumstances make it necessary for students to test late. To preserve the security of AP Exams, alternate versions of the exams are used for late testing. All students who participate in late testing at a given school must take these alternate exams on the scheduled late-testing dates at the scheduled times.