AP exams - TWHS & WKHS

Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s):

Your son or daughter will have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement (AP) examinations May 5 – May 16, 2025. The advantages of taking AP Courses and Exams as well as the format and content of the exams can be found at ap.collegeboard.org.

Below are details on timing, cost and steps to register for AP exams. Also outlined is information on College Board Big Futures, a free online resource and planning guide that makes the transition from high school to the next step a little bit easier.

We will continually update parents and students via email and on the AP page of the Worthington Schools Website (Worthington AP Homepage) as information is made available.

Parents or students having questions about the examination should contact their Advanced Placement teachers.

Sincerely,

Suzanne Palmer, Gifted Services Coordinator

REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Now - November 1, 2024

Registration will remain open through Friday, November 1, 2024. The fee for each examination is $100.00.

AP registration must be completed by Friday, November 1, 2024 to avoid a $40 LATE FEE.

LATE REGISTRATION: November 18, 2024 - February 21, 2025 ($40 late fee)

Exams ordered after the November 1st deadline will be assessed a $40 late fee making the total cost $140/exam.

NO EXAMS MAY BE ORDERED AFTER FEBRUARY 21, 2025

LOCATION: Thomas Worthington High School 2025 AP exams will be held at the Worthington Education Center (200 E. Wilson Bridge Road) this year due to construction. Additional details and transportation information will be shared with families as it gets closer.

*Your child may qualify for a free or reduced exam fee if they currently qualify under the federal lunch program. You would need to have completed a waiver form when you applied for free/reduced lunch in order to qualify. You may contact your child’s school counselor for a copy of the waiver if you did not complete it with your original application for free/reduced lunch. Please return the form to Gifted Services, Worthington Schools, 200 E. Wilson Bridge Road, Worthington, OH 43085.

If your son/daughter is planning to take one or more of the examinations, they will need to join their AP course code in their College Board account. This code will be given to them by their AP classroom teacher.

Please register online by logging into your My Payments Plus account at www.mypaymentsplus.com. You will need to create an account if you have not already done so. Once logged in, follow these steps:

• Below your student(s) cafeteria account payments, you should see a listing of AP Exams.
• Select the exam(s) you would like to register for, agree to the terms and select the exam date.
• This will add the exam to your cart, and you will then pay any applicable fees.
• BE SURE YOU RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION SCREEN FOR YOUR EXAM REGISTRATION - If you do not have a confirmation, then your registration did not go through.
• If you would like to register for multiple exams, you will need to complete the process above for each exam.

The deadline to submit applications to the College Board for special accommodations is January 18, 2025. You must contact the counseling department at your child’s school about the process to request special accommodations if your child’s disability impacts his/her participation in standardized testing. The College Board Services for Students with Disabilities approve the requests NOT Worthington Schools. When registering in My Payments Plus, check mark the box on the registration form asking for accommodations.

Thomas Worthington: TWHS AP exam schedule 2025

Worthington Kilbourne: WKHS AP exam schedule 2025

Students are required to take exams at specifically scheduled nation-wide times. Early testing is not permitted under any circumstances. Under special approved circumstances, defined by the College Board below, an exam may be administered at a later date using an alternative form of the exam.

College Board recognizes there are situations that arise that may require a student to participate in late testing.

Below are the circumstances when late testing is allowed without incurring an additional fee of $40/exam:

· Academic Contest/event

· School Athletic contest/event

· Conflict with IB 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

· Religious/holiday observance

· School closing: election, national holiday, or natural disaster

· Strike/labor conflict

· Student court appearance

· Two AP exams scheduled on the same date at the same time

Any other reason will incur an additional $40 fee. Also, as a result of College Board’s updates to its program, no stand-by testing will be permitted.

As students progress through their high school career, there begins to be a big focus on their future and what that looks like. That future can look very different from one year to the next as students engage in their high school coursework and grow as learners.

Thinking about the future and the many different options/paths available can be a little overwhelming for students and their families. College Board has a resource to help students throughout their high school career. Big Future is a free online resource planning guide that makes this transition from high school to their next step a little easier. With Big Future, students can check out careers of interest and find colleges based on areas of interest as well as ways to pay for college.

Students can not only gain valuable information from accessing the Big Future, they can also enter to win either $500 or $40,000 scholarships through the monthly drawings. Students earn one entry each month for each step they complete on Big Future. In addition, students whose families make less than $60,000 a year have extra chances to win the scholarships. Students are eligible to enter into the scholarship drawings starting in the January of their sophomore year until February of their senior year.