Advanced Placement Testing
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program of college level classes and exams that gives bright, motivated students the opportunity to earn credit, advanced placement, or both for college while they are still in high school. AP courses and exams represent the beginning of the journey through college level academic challenges. The work you do in an AP course will help you develop skills and study habits that will be vital in college. East Peoria Community High School offers AP courses in Psychology. East Peoria offers A.P. Exams in Psychology, Biology, and Calculus.
The vast majority of colleges and universities in the United States grant academic credit, advanced placement or both to incoming students with qualifying AP grades on the exams. Each college decides which AP exam grade it will accept in return for credit or advanced placement. It is the student's responsibility to learn about the specific policy that individual colleges may have regarding each of these exams. The college admissions office is the appropriate place to call or write for information. This information may also be published in the college catalog or on the college's web-site.
The AP examinations are administered in early May each year. Registration for A.P. testing is done in March through the Guidance Office and the classroom teachers of the AP classes. Booklets describing the program in detail are available to all students prior to the sign-up period. The cost is $86.00 per test for the Year 2009 tests. A firm commitment and payment is required at sign-up time as a test is ordered and purchased for each student who wants to take the exam.