Exam Fee: The fee for each exam is $84, with schools retaining an $8 rebate per exam.

Free Downloadable Teacher’s Guides: Nineteen Teacher’s Guides, including fifteen new guides, are now available for downloading free of charge from the Course Home Pages.
  Course Home Pages

New Website for Education Professionals: In fall of 2007, the College Board’s education professionals’ website will have new content, features, and an updated design. The site will serve as the online home for AP Coordinators and school administrators, and will help these professionals access relevant AP content, tools, and downloads more quickly and intuitively. Note: AP Central will continue to serve as the primary online resource for AP teachers.

Full-Day AP Coordinator Workshops: AP Coordinator workshops have been expanded to a full-day format. These free workshops are designed to help new and less experienced Coordinators learn how to effectively manage their school’s AP program. Participants are encouraged to bring templates or other materials used to help organize their programs to share with other participants. Download the 2007-08 AP Coordinator Workshop Schedule or use AP Central's Institutes and Workshops search to find an AP Coordinator workshop in your region.
  2007-08 AP Coordinator Workshop Schedule (.pdf/88KB)
  Institutes and Workshop Search

Forgoing testing accommodations: If a student under age 18 has received approval from the College Board to receive accommodations on AP Exams, but wishes to forgo the accommodations, schools should obtain, prior to exam day, a signed statement from the student’s parent or guardian acknowledging this waiver.

Service Enhancements
AP Participation Form: This year, on the AP Participation Form, schools are encouraged to identify an additional staff member to serve as backup for the AP Coordinator. This designated backup person will be authorized to speak and conduct any necessary transactions on behalf of the AP Coordinator.

Late-Testing Fee for IB Conflicts: Students requiring alternate exams because of conflicts with IB exams will no longer incur the additional $40-per-exam late-testing fee.

AP Services Call Center Hours Extended: From April 22, 2008, to May 23, 2008, AP Services will be open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. ET.

Course and Exam Content
AP Spanish Language: In the multiple-choice section, one reading comprehension passage and five reading comprehension questions will be eliminated. The overall timing for the multiple-choice section will be reduced by 10 minutes; the weighting for the section remains unchanged. Master recordings will be in Spanish only; however, directions in student exam booklets will continue to be printed in English and Spanish. In addition, the exam instructions for all world language exams will be revised and made more concise. To help ensure that the Spanish Language exam can be administered efficiently to large groups of test-takers, the listening prompts for the Presentational Writing and Speaking parts will be delivered on separate CDs to allow for simultaneous testing of separate groups, if needed. A College Board Online Event will be offered in spring 2008 to help AP Coordinators and proctors of AP world language exams prepare for the May 2008 exam administration.
  College Board Online Events

AP Chinese Language and Culture and AP Japanese Language and Culture: Operational changes will be made to the delivery of the 2008 AP Chinese and Japanese Exams. The changes are intended to facilitate access to these exams and to reduce exam administration-related challenges. Further details will be available on AP Central.

AP French Language: Beginning with the 2008 AP French Language Exam, there will be a change in the presentation of the multiple-choice section of the exam. The questions based on listening dialogues (that is, both questions and suggested answers) will be printed in the exam booklets. No part of these questions will appear on the recording.

AP French Literature: The AP French Literature reading list was revised for the 2007-08 course and exam. See the AP French Literature Course Home Page or the 2008-10 AP French Course Description for the revised reading list.
  AP French Literature Course Home Page

AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science AB: At least five multiple-choice questions and one free-response question are based on the AP GridWorld Case Study. The case study includes a program that students should work with throughout the school year. Java is used as the programming language for AP Computer Science.
  GridWorld Case Study