College Board is a national assessment corporation that provides students the following assessments: PSAT 8/9, PSAT NMSQT, Advanced Placement exams, and SAT. You can click here to visit their website for more information.

Advanced Placement Exams

Advanced Placement (AP) courses along with the AP exam let colleges know that your child was exposed to a rigorous high school course load that better prepared your child for college-level work. In addition to the rigorous course load, many colleges accept the AP credit as college credit which gives your child cheaper college tuition as well as catapults your child ahead of his peers in or to be exempt from freshmen in order to take classes in his major. Unfortunately, when students focus on taking CP or honors level classes in order to "protect" their GPA for Hope Scholarships, they tend to enter college with a modest academic transcript and the college courses become too much for them, which in turn, causes them to lose the Hope Scholarship all together. All students must arrive on time for testing and remain in the testing environment for the entire length of the exam.

Please click here to visit the GCPS website to learn more about advanced placement exams.

Registration Information

Please note: Registration for year-long AP courses takes place during the fall semester each school year. An additional ordering window for semester-long AP courses only opens up in January. Any student who does not complete registration during the given College Board ordering window will be charged a late fee of $40 per exam. Please note that the College Board also charges a $40 canceled/missed AP exam on test day as well.

Please click this link for more information about the AP Registration process.

All registration and payment is completed through MyPaymentsPlus. 

Click here for a document that will guide students and parents through the registration and payment process.

The following pricing is available for advanced placement exams:

• All registration and payment is completed through MyPaymentsPlus
• All students pay a $15 non-refundable registration fee
• All students enrolled in an AP course will receive one free exam for the course they are enrolled
• Each additional exam is $99. AP Capstone exams are $147 per exam.
• An unused or canceled fee will be applied for each exam not completed by a student.
• Late ordering fee for exams ordered outside of the College Board ordering window will be charged an additional $40.
• A late testing fee of $40 will be charged for students who need a late testing date.

The PSAT/NMSQT is a national assessment given by College Board and administered at the local schools. This assessment is free for students in 10th grade. The test assesses the preparedness of students for college readiness and assesses them on the same knowledge and skills as the SAT. This test is equivalent to the PSAT 10 (spring season) and allows 11th grade students the ability to receive scholarships. Please note that students who plan on taking the assessment as an 11th grader must pay a fee before taking the assessment. 

The PSAT 8/9 is a national assessment given by College Board and administered at the local schools to 8th grade students in GCPS. The test assesses the preparedness of students for college readiness and assesses them on the same knowledge and skills at the SAT. 

All students must arrive on time for testing and remain in the testing environment for the entire length of the exam.

Please visit the College Board website for more information.