About 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: Click here

Find International Universities Recognizing AP and SAT: Click here

AP benefits 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

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 enroll and stay in college, do well in their classes, and graduate in four years.

• 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

Read: how AP helped these students.

Review the AP course descriptions for the subject's 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

The Newtown School, Kolkata 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 Here