New for 2025-26

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. Simply confirm that these courses are offered at your school during the Pre-AP ordering process.

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: the eBook for Pre-AP English and World History and Geography courses, the collaboration tool 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.