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New for 2025-26

Pre-AP updates for the upcoming school year.

College Board is thrilled to announce important updates to the Pre-AP Program beginning the 2025-2026 academic year.

Prepare More Students with Free Pre-AP

Pre-AP delivers content and skills to prepare students for success in AP®. Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, all Pre-AP courses will be available at no cost to schools that enroll 12th-grade students in AP Precalculus or 10th-grade students in AP African American Studies, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Seminar, or English 10: AP Seminar.

Support AP Readiness

The following actions support student preparedness for AP. Schools offering Pre-AP are encouraged to engage in these best practices.

  • Pre-AP for All: Increase the number of students taking AP by having all students engage in Pre-AP.
  • Course Frameworks: Align instruction to the Pre-AP course frameworks to give students access to the content and practice with skills necessary for AP success.
  • Assessments: Provide students practice with Pre-AP assessments that prepare them for the types of questions they'll see on AP Exams.
  • Professional Learning: Engage teachers and instructional leaders in Pre-AP professional learning to help them learn how to integrate Pre-AP materials and instructional practices into their daily lessons. Targeted learning opportunities for administrators help them effectively support the Pre-AP Program at their schools.

Experience Upgraded Pre-AP Classroom

We know that most educators and students access Pre-AP instructional resources and assessments through our online platform so it’s important to College Board that we continue to improve it to better support your needs. Beginning the 2025-26 academic year, we’ll:

  • Ease the transition for students and teachers from Pre-AP to AP by making Pre-AP Classroom more similar to AP Classroom.
  • Launch Pre-AP Question Bank*, which will allow teachers to create quizzes using College Board created questions, or teachers can add their own questions. 
  • Improve assessment reporting for teachers and students.

In making these improvements, some elements of the previous Pre-AP Classroom will be sunset, including access to Vocabulary.com and Wordplay Shakespeare. While these resources may be mentioned in print or PDF resources, they’ll no longer be partners with the Pre-AP Program. 

Use the Improved Assessment Suite

Educators have shared that they want to customize assessments to meet their students' needs. Therefore, in addition to the learning checkpoints* and performance tasks, we’ll be launching a Pre-AP Question Bank*.

  • Teachers will be able to author their own questions in the question bank and create their own assessments. 
  • Pre-AP Question Bank items can be used to create assessments of various lengths, such as exit tickets, quizzes, and semester tests.
  • Quizzes created with items from the Pre-AP Question Bank can be shared with other educators.
  • Because teachers will be able to create their own assessments in the question bank, the Pre-AP Final Exams will be retired. 

*Not available for Pre-AP Arts courses.