OPTION 1: If your school offers AP® courses, contact you AP Coordinator to register for the exams. He/she will order the necessary materials, collect fees and let you know when and where to appear for the exams.
OPTION 2: If you are a home schooled student or attend a school that does not offer AP® courses, you can still take the exams by arranging to test at a participating school.
- Call AP® services at 888-225-5427 no later than March 1st to get the names and telephone numbers of local AP® Coordinators. Prepare a list of the exams you plan to take prior to calling so that the appropriate Coordinators can be identified.
- Contact the AP® Coordinators identified by AP® Services no later than March 15th.
When calling Coordinators to arrange testing, make sure to tell them the following:
- You are trying to locate a school willing to administer exams to home schooled students or students from schools that do not offer AP® courses.
- You will be using your own school's code so your exam score(s) will be reported to your school and not the school at which you are testing.
- Which exams you plan to take.
Once you locate a school willing to administer the exams, the school's AP® Coordinator is responsible for ordering your exam materials as well as notifying you of the times and locations of the exams and collecting fees. (Please note: the school may elect to charge a higher exam fee in order to offset additional proctoring or administration costs). That school must administer the exams for you; they cannot forward them to you or your school for handling.
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