Taking Advanced Placement (AP) in India
Taking AP Exams in 2025
AP Exams are administered only in May each year and require advance registration. A few secondary schools in India offer both AP courses and AP Exams, but limit testing to their enrolled students only. Authorized AP test centers are open to all students so long as they are eligible to test.
Students in India who wish to take AP Exams have the option to register at any of the authorized AP test centers located throughout India if their own school does not offer the desired AP Exam(s).
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New – AP Exams Are Digital Starting 2025
28 exams will be offered digitally via College Board’s Bluebook testing app, as either fully digital or hybrid digital. Learn more here.
Get to know Bluebook: see approved devices, download, and practice before exam day. Most test centers will expect students to bring their own approved testing devices. Check with preferred test center for further instructions.
Exam Schedule
Regular testing: AP Exams will be administered in AP authorized schools and test centers over the first two full weeks in May: May 5-9 and May 12-1, 2025. Early testing or testing at times other than those published by Advanced Placement (AP) is not permitted under any circumstances.
Late testing (May 19-23) if offered by an authorized test center is available for students who cannot test during the regular testing period. Schools and authorized test centers determine which AP Exams they are able to offer. Students must check each authorized test center's AP registration page to see which exams they offer. For reference only, the full AP Exam Schedule can be viewed here (and here for late testing).
Exam Registration at Authorized Test Centers
September 16, 2024: Registrations at authorized test centers listed on this page open for May 2025 AP Exams. Check with your preferred test center so you do not miss their deadlines.
Students must complete registration and payment directly with their selected test center between September and mid-November 2024 in order to reserve an exam seat at a test center.
Some test centers may offer a second registration window (December through mid-March 2025) but with additional fees. Check with your preferred test center about late registration.
Authorized Test Centers
AP Exam registration in India is managed by authorized AP test centers. Students will follow registration and payment instructions provided by their preferred testing location. Because test centers operate independently, their exam offerings, deadlines, fees, exam cancellation and refund policies and procedures may vary.
Below is a list of cities with AP test centers with links once registration information is available. Click on each link for registration instructions.
2025 AP Exam Eligibility
- Students in any of the categories below are eligible to take AP Exams at the secondary school where they're enrolled or at other AP-authorized schools or test centers:
- Students actively enrolled in secondary school.
- Secondary school-level students who are homeschooled, participate in independent study, or attend a virtual school.
- Actively enrolled students who may be prepared to take an AP Exam prior to the ninth grade.
- Recent secondary school graduates who need a specific AP Exam for university admission.
Authorized AP test centers in India may impose additional ID policies, as follows:
- Students must bring original, valid passport for entry to the AP Exam administration.
- Or, if original, valid passport is not available, then student must have the Aadhaar in either original Letter format or the PVC version with hologram only (both received from UIDAI). No other Aadhaar versions will be accepted.
- ACCEPTED AADHAAR VERSIONS: A sample of the letter version is shown on the left; it’s the entire piece of paper and not just the card portion at the bottom. The PVC card sample is on the right.
- Please plan any ID processing and applications in advance. Only students who bring required ID on exam day may test. Students who do not bring required ID to the test site on exam day will not be permitted to test.
- ACCEPTED AADHAAR VERSIONS: A sample of the letter version is shown on the left; it’s the entire piece of paper and not just the card portion at the bottom. The PVC card sample is on the right.
AP testing policies:
- You can take any or all of the 4 physics exams in the same year.
- You cannot retake an exam in the same year, although you may retake it in a subsequent year.
- You cannot take both Calculus AB and Calculus BC in the same year.
- You can take Precalculus and (Calculus AB or Calculus BC) in the same year.
- You cannot take 2 exams scheduled at the same date and time. Decide which exam you wish to take first and then take the other exam during the next testing window.
- (If offered by a test center) Prerequisite for AP Computer Science Principles Exam: To register for this exam, you must be enrolled in the corresponding AP course at a school authorized to teach the class. Students must submit portfolio work and complete the end of course exam to receive a complete AP Exam score.
- AP Exams are administered in person at the test center.