AP & Honors

Payment Information
At this time, registration on the College Board website DOES NOT INCLUDE payment. After the registration period ends, payments will be processed through the SI Business Office via your SI FACTS account. Charges will include the total for all tests registered and accounts will be itemized as an incidental expense. Relevant Financial Aid discounts will be applied for all charges. If you do not have a FACTS account set up for automatic payments, S.I. Business Office will send you an email about payment. Please allow some time for payment to show up on your FACTS account. Each AP exam is $97. Late fee is $40. Unused and canceled exam fee is $40. Please allow some time for your account to be billed accordingly. 
 
**Important things to note**

• We will be administering exams in person on paper at SI.
• Students with College Board approved testing accommodations will be supported by the CATS Center on test day. If you have questions please visit CATS.
• The deadline to submit accommodations has passed. If you need accommodations for a medical disability, please contact CATS immediately.
• Please email Ms. Brenda Hammond, bhammond@siprep.org, with questions about AP Exams or the Registration process.

**Please contact Ms. Hammond If** 

• You are no longer taking the exam.
• Need to move to a LATE EXAM DAY. 

Location of Exams
Standard AP Exams will be held in the Cowell Gym. Please arrive at 7:45 a.m. for 8 a.m. exams and 11:45 a.m. for noon exams. DO NOT BE LATE! You may not enter the exam room once the exam has begun. Initial next to your name on the sign-in sheet of your exam location.

• If you have an afternoon exam you must be in class until 11:40 a.m.  If you take a morning exam you must go to class 15 minutes after being dismissed from your AP Exam.
• FRENCH EXAM STUDENTS: Due to space, we need to move your testing date to the late testing date. May 18th 11:45-3pm in the Choral Room. I have emailed you this as well.

Students with Accommodations
Students with accommodations taking the AP exams will be held at a different location on campus. Times and location for AP exams for students with accommodations will be emailed to those students next week and posted here. 

Late-testing reasons with no additional fee:

• Academic contest/event
• Athletic contest/event
• Conflict with IB or Cambridge exam
• Conflict with nationally, province-, or state-mandated test Disabilities accommodations issue
• Emergency: bomb scare or fire alarm
• Emergency: serious injury, illness, or family tragedy
• High school graduation
• Language lab scheduling conflict
• Religious/holiday observance
• School closing: election, national holiday, or natural disaster Strike/labor conflict
• Student court appearance
• Two AP Exams on the same date at the same time

NOTE: It is important that you speak to your coaches, teachers, parents/guardians and check outside extra curricular activities for any schedule conflicts. Please email bhammond@siprep.org if you know you will have a scheduling conflict as soon as possible. 

What students SHOULD bring:

• Two sharpened No. 2 pencils (with erasers) for completing multiple-choice answer sheets.
• Two pens with black or dark blue ink only, for completing areas on the exam booklet covers and for free-response questions in most exams.
• A REGULAR watch THAT DOES NOT BEEP OR HAVE AN ALARM  (in case the exam room doesn’t have a clock that can be easily seen).
• Up to two calculators with the necessary capabilities if taking an AP Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Physics, or Statistics Exam. THERE IS A NEW CALCULATOR POLICY…Visit apstudents.org/courses and click on the link for their course for the specific calculator policy.
• A ruler or straightedge IF TAKING AN AP PHYSICS EXAM.
• College Board SSD Eligibility Letter if they are taking an exam with approved testing accommodations
• You may bring hand sanitizer but it must remain under their desk during testing. Students may use PPE such as masks during testing following your school’s current protocol.
• water is okay to bring and snacks can be eaten after the exam.

What NOT to do or bring on AP testing day:

• Electronic equipment of any kind: phones, smartwatches, or wearable technology of any kind, laptops, tablet computers, Bluetooth devices, portable listening or recording devices, cameras or other photographic equipment, devices that can access the internet, separate timers of any type, and any other electronic or communication devices.  NOTE: School-owned and -controlled recording devices that meet AP Program criteria are allowed only for the AP French, German, Italian, and Spanish Language and Culture Exams and the AP Music Theory Exam
• Books, compasses, correction fluid, dictionaries, highlighters, or notes.
• Mechanical pencils, No. 3 pencils, or colored pencils.
• Protractors.
• Scratch paper (it will be provided for you)
• Reference guides, keyboard maps, or other typing instructions.
• Clothing or shoes with subject-related information.
• Ear plugs. 
• Clipboards.

**Unless an item has been pre-approved as an accommodation by the CollegeBoard Services for Students with Disabilities office before the exam date.**

**A small bag may be placed under your desk area. Absolutely no electronics. If there is any kind of incident that results in a disturbance during the exam, this can result in a cancelation to your exam and other students in the exam** 

Student breaks during testing
Students will have timed breaks during the exam. Students with accommodations will have breaks accordingly. A student may go alone to the restroom at any time but exam time will not pause. STUDENTS MAY NOT: take materials from the room and exam booklets MUST BE closed on their desks with their answer sheets inside. Students may not consult textbooks, notes, teachers, or other students regarding the exam materials during the break. They may not access any electronic or communication devices. They may not make phone calls, read/send emails or text messages, or access the internet. They must not discuss exam content with anyone at any time. Failure to adhere to these policies may result in cancellation of scores.

Student dismissal times
All students must be dismissed from the exam at the dismissal time. No one may leave early (except in cases of illness or rule violations). If a student finishes before the end of the testing time, they must sit quietly until all students are dismissed. Even if all students have completed testing, they cannot be dismissed before the allotted testing time.
**Exceptions:  French, German, Italian, and Spanish Language and Culture Exams, and Music Theory.**

Late arrival
If a student arrives to the exam room late but before the other exam takers have finished filling out identification information on their answer sheets, and the school considers the cause of the student’s late arrival to be beyond the student’s control, then the school may admit and test the student. 
**Note: Schools are not required to admit or test latecomers. Students who arrive late must follow the directions of testing site personnel.**

Student scores
Scores will be available to students online at apscore.org in July.
Students’ Free Score Report: June 20 Deadline.