Editing Advanced Placement (section)

{{Short description|American program with college-level classes offered to high school students}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2013}}
{{Infobox examination
| name                = Advanced Placement exams
| image_name          = AP logo (2017).svg
| image_size          = 121px
| image_alt           = 
| caption             = Logo since 2017
| acronym             = AP
| type                = 
| test_admin          = [[College Board]]
| skills_tested       = 
| purpose             = 
| year_started        = {{Start date|1952}}
| year_terminated     = <!-- {{End date|YYYY}} -->
| duration            = Mostly 2–3 hours<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/ap-exams-overview/exam-timing-structure|website=AP Students|publisher=[[College Board]]|title=Exam Timing and Structure|access-date=2023-04-05}}</ref>
| score_range         = 1–5 (''[[#Scoring|details]]'')
| score_validity      = Scores archived after 4 years, but remain valid<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/faqs/i-took-ap-exams-over-four-years-ago-how-do-i-send-my-old-scores|website=AP Students|publisher=[[College Board]]|title=I took AP Exams over four years ago. How do I send my old scores?|access-date=2023-04-05}}</ref>
| offered             = Yearly
| attempt_restriction =
| regions             = [[United States]] and [[Canada]]
| language            = 
| test_takers         = 
| prerequisite        = 
| fee                 =  2024 exams (''[[USD]]''):<ref name="fees"/> {{ublist
  | $98 (US, Canada, [[DoDEA]] schools)
  | $128 (elsewhere)
  | $146 ([[AP Capstone]])
  }}
| score_users         = 
| qualification_rate  = 
| free_label          = 
| free                = 
| website             = {{URL|https://ap.collegeboard.org}}
| footnotes           =  
}}

{{Advanced Placement}}
{{Education in the U.S.}}

'''Advanced Placement''' ('''AP''')<ref>{{cite web|title=AP Central|url=https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=January 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129083430/https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> is a program in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] created by the [[College Board]]. AP offers [[undergraduate]] university-level [[curriculum|curricula]] and examinations to [[high school]] students. Colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere may grant placement and [[course credit]] to students who obtain qualifying scores on the examinations.

The AP curriculum for each of the various subjects is created for the College Board by a panel of experts and college-level educators in that [[academic discipline]]. For a high school course to have the designation as offering an AP course, the course must be audited by the College Board to ascertain that it satisfies the AP curriculum as specified in the Board's Course and Examination Description (CED). If the course is approved, the school may use the AP designation and the course will be publicly listed on the AP Course Ledger.<ref>{{cite web|title=AP Course Ledger|url=https://apcourseaudit.inflexion.org/ledger/|work=AP Course Audit|publisher=University of Oregon|access-date=May 1, 2018|archive-date=July 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731123713/https://apcourseaudit.inflexion.org/ledger/|url-status=live}}</ref>