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Students are eagerly awaiting their AP scores. Meanwhile, more than 36,000 educators are currently reading AP Exams with care, consistency, and attention to detail. It’s one of the largest collaborations of educators anywhere, and it happens every single year.

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For students who took AP Exams in May: the AP Reading are in progress. Here’s what that means. More than 36,000 AP teachers and college faculty from across the country and around the world will evaluate more than 25 million essays and open-ended responses this month. Here is how that process works. Before a single response is scored, all identifying information is stripped from the work. Readers never know whose response they are reading, not the student's name, not their school, not their state. What sits in front of a Reader is the work alone: the argument constructed, the evidence marshaled, the reasoning applied. Nothing else. Each Reader must first calibrate their judgment against the established scoring standards before they evaluate a single response. Our standards are developed by AP teachers and college faculty together. Many responses are read by more than one Reader, and statistical processes are in place to ensure that scoring remains consistent from the first day of the Reading to the last. The goal is straightforward: the quality of each response determines its score, and nothing else. Scores are on their way. The educators reading the exams care deeply about getting it right.

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

"Neither 'multiple learning styles' nor 'multiple intelligences' is accepted by experts in the relevant fields."—E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Why Knowledge Matters, p. 70

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Right now, many AP Exam subjects are being scored: 📚 An AP Seminar essay is being carefully analyzed. 🎨 An AP 3D Art and Design portfolio is being thoughtfully reviewed. 🏛️ An AP U.S. History free response is being evaluated. And the people doing it? More than 36,000 AP teachers and college faculty who care deeply about student learning. That’s the AP Reading.

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Might be one of the most honest and accurate tweets I’ve ever read…

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The AP Reading begins today. More than 36,000 educators — AP teachers and college faculty from across the country and around the world — will score the free-response work of millions of students who took AP Exams in May. AP Readers will evaluate more than 25 million essays and free response questions. Teachers who serve as AP Readers consistently describe it as among the most valuable professional learning experiences of their careers — and I believe them. The AP Readings take place over the course of a month, with a different group of subjects scored each week. In the span of a week, Readers fine tune their judgement of student work in ways that enhance their classroom practice, gain insight into how students think and write across the country, and learn alongside colleagues who teach the same content in a hundred different ways. To every Reader — whether this is your first AP Reading or your 20th — thank you. The students whose work lands on your table are fortunate to have someone who cares this much. The work you do this week matters more than you know.

Right now, more than 36,000 expert educators are reading AP Exams. Here's how it works: after you take your AP Exam, trained educators score free-response questions — by hand, carefully, consistently. Every response gets real human attention. That means the score you get later this summer? It's been read, reviewed, and scored with care. You put in the work. Now it's our turn. Scores drop in a few weeks. Stay tuned.

Starting in the 2026-2027 school year, College Board will launch AP Cybersecurity as part of a new set of Advanced Placement® (AP®) Career Kickstart courses. Read about our partnership with @Cisco made the course possible: blogs.cisco.com/learning/cis…

I signed it. The data are clear. Standardized tests are the best predictor of college success and the least biased indicator we have. Getting rid of them was incredibly foolish.

First AP Cybersecurity reading! #epic

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I love this post. A great analogy for students -even high performers- not understanding the value of their education. They learned successful study habits, overcoming adversity, dealing with complexity, and logical problem solving under pressure. Complete waste of time. 🙄