College Board announced it is accelerating its plan to move all AP testing to its digital platform, Bluebook. Students taking the following 16 AP courses should prepare to take their May 2025 AP exam online:
- African American Studies (U.S. schools only)
- Art History
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Computer Science A
- Computer Science Principles
- English Language and Composition
- English Literature and Composition
- Environmental Science
- European History
- Human Geography
- Latin
- Psychology
- Seminar
- United States Government and Politics
- United States History
- World History: Modern
12 additional AP exams (Biology, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Physics 1, Physics 2, Physics: Electricity and Magnetism, Physics: Mechanics, Precalculus, & Statistics) will be administered in a hybrid form, in which students will see the questions on a screen but answer any free-response questions in a paper booklet.
8 other AP exams (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, and Music Theory) will continue to be paper-and-pencil tests for this year. However, given this news, it is likely that the 20 exams that will be given in either hybrid or paper formats this year will move to a digital format in May 2026.
College Board cited test security as its main reason for accelerating the switch to a fully digital AP testing experience. Test previews should be available on Bluebook later in the school year.
We’ll continue to keep you posted as we learn more! To read College Board’s announcement, click here.
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