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Trevor Packer
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Head of the Advanced Placement Program
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College Board and @uschamber.bsky.social announced a landmark collaboration to bring new career-focused courses into high schools across the nation. We previewed AP® Career Kickstart™ courses alongside new research confirming the demand.

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September 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🎙️ Welcome to The Education Equation, a podcast by @collegeboard.org President Jeremy Singer that explores how to make real, scalable progress in education using data-driven strategies and ideas.

Follow wherever you listen to podcasts. TheEducationEquation.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"In an era of inflated grades, AI disruption, and other major changes to education, the SAT provides a research-backed, reliable, and highly secure common measure across students, schools, and states. Any college entrance exam should be held to that high bar."
The SAT Still Measures What Matters — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
The SAT has been called many things. Too consequential. Too stressful. Too long. But in its 100-year history, no one ever called it easy. But lately, a claim that the…
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August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Encouraging to see the early impact of AP Precalculus. Grateful to the many educators and colleagues who brought this course into being.
Precalculus Is the Fastest-Growing AP Course. That’s Reshaping K-12 Math
Schools report growing demand and success from students taking the relatively new College Board math course.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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NEW: Students can practice for the SAT every day, keep track of their stats and earn badges with SAT Question of the Day! Try it here: qotd.collegeboard.org/
July 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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2025 AP Exam scores are available starting today. Students can access their scores via their College Board account.

💻 View your AP Exam Scores: spr.ly/60174muz5
July 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
With equating and standard settings complete, this next week we’ll format and upload the exam data into the score reports for students and educators.
July 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If you’re interested in the Evidence-Based Standard Setting process that determines the performance levels needed to earn AP scores of 2, 3, 4, and 5, we’ve just posted an overview that outlines the process and links to specific findings for each of this year’s subjects: cb.org/apexams2025
2025 AP Exams: Scoring, Standards, and Security in a New Digital Era – All Access | College Board
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July 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The 2025 AP Human Geography Exam scores:
5: 17%; 4: 25%; 3: 23%; 2: 25%; 1: 10%
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The 2025 AP Environmental Science Exam scores:
5: 12%; 4: 28%; 3: 29%; 2: 15%; 1: 16%

Multiple-Choice Questions

Students earned the highest average scores across questions about Energy Resources and Consumption (Unit 6); 44% of students answered all or all but one of these questions right.
July 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The 2025 AP English Language and Composition Exam scores:
5: 13%; 4: 28%; 3: 33%; 2: 16%: 1: 10%
July 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The 2025 AP English Literature & Composition Exam scores:
5: 16%; 4: 27%; 3: 31%; 2: 16%; 1: 10%
July 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The 2025 Physics C: Mechanics Exam scores:
5: 20%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 17%; 1: 11%

Multiple-Choice Questions

AP Physics C: Mechanics students scored exceptionally well on questions about Linear Momentum (Unit 4): 29% answered all such questions right.
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The 2025 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Exam scores:
5: 23%; 4: 24%; 3: 25%; 2: 19%; 1: 9%
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The 2025 AP Psychology Exam scores:
5: 15%; 4: 32%; 3: 25%; 2: 19%; 1: 9%

Multiple-Choice Questions

Students scored quite evenly and well across all topics, especially on “Cognition” (Unit 2); on those questions, 15% answered each of these items right.
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The 2025 AP Physics 2 Exam scores:
5: 20%; 4: 29%; 3: 23%; 2: 21%; 1: 7%
July 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The 2025 AP Physics 1 Exam scores:
5: 18%; 4: 25%; 3: 23%; 2: 14%; 1: 20%
July 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
OK, I’ve got the final 9 subjects’ results to share today. These subjects took longer than the others, since after the AP Readings, each of these subjects was also scheduled for a standard setting...
July 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
2025 AP World History: Modern Exam scores:
5: 14%; 4: 33%; 3: 17%; 2: 27%; 1: 9%

Multiple-Choice Questions:

Students performed very well across all 9 units, but two units in particular stood out, those focused on 1750-1900 CE: Unit 5 (Revolutions) and Unit 6 (Consequences of Industrialization).
June 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The 2025 AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam scores:
5: 22%; 4: 32%; 3: 31%; 2: 12%; 1: 3%

¡Buen trabajo AP Spanish Language and Culture students and teachers! The percentage of students scoring 3 or higher increased by 2% compared to 2024, and 1,987 more students earned a top score of 5.
June 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The 2025 AP Music Theory Exam scores:
5: 18%; 4: 18%; 3: 24%; 2: 25%; 1: 15%
June 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The 2025 AP Biology Exam scores:
5: 19%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 21%; 1: 8%
June 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The 2025 AP Seminar scores:
5: 10%; 4: 19%; 3: 57%; 2: 12%; 1: 2%
June 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The 2025 AP French Language and Culture Exam scores:
5: 13%; 4: 25%; 3: 35%; 2: 21%; 1: 6%

73% of AP French Language and Culture students earned a 3 or higher—up 2 percent from 2024. Félicitations to students and teachers!

1 in 4 test takers are heritage speakers, consistent with prior years.
June 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The 2025 AP Italian Language and Culture Exam scores:
5: 21%; 4: 24%; 3: 28%; 2: 19%; 1: 8%

73% of students scored 3 or higher—the highest since the pandemic years, and 2% higher than in 2024. Complimenti!

24% of test takers are heritage speakers this year.
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM