AP Exam Schedule 2027: Every Exam Date & Time

The 2027 AP Exams run over two weeks, May 3–7 and May 10–14, 2027, with a morning session at 8 a.m. and an afternoon session at 12 p.m. local time at most schools. Late testing follows from May 17 to May 21. The tables below copy College Board’s official 2027 exam dates page↗ and late-testing page↗, checked on October 15, 2026. Where we have a calculator for an exam, the exam name links to it, so you can see what a 3, 4 or 5 takes once you have a practice score.

The 2027 AP calendar at a glance

Each exam day has two sessions. College Board calls them Session 1 (typically morning) and Session 2 (typically afternoon).

Table 1. Official 2027 AP Exam schedule, weeks 1 and 2. Source: College Board, AP Central exam dates.

Two new course names appear in 2027: AP Business with Personal Finance (May 4, morning) and AP Cybersecurity (May 5, morning). AP Networking is listed only for its 2026–27 pilot schools. AP Art and Design has no sit-down exam. Students submit three portfolio components by May 7, 2027.

Every 2027 AP exam by date, with a score calculator

The same schedule sorted exam by exam. Use your browser’s find (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) to jump to a subject. The calculator column links to our AP score calculator for the 23 exams it covers.

Table 2. All 39 scheduled 2027 AP exams, A to Z (38 plus the Networking pilot). Dates and sessions from College Board; calculator dates cross-checked against our AP data file on October 15, 2026.

What time do AP exams start?

College Board says that for most schools, including every school in the lower 48 states, Hawaii and Washington, D.C., Session 1 begins at 8 a.m. and Session 2 at 12 p.m. local time. “Local” means the clock where your school is, so a Chicago student and a Boston student both start at 8 a.m. on their own clocks.

From 2027, start times changed for some other locations to stop secure exam content from leaking across time zones. The exam-dates page does not name those locations. Alaska, the US territories and schools abroad are not in the list of places guaranteed the 8 a.m./12 p.m. times, so students there should ask their coordinator or check College Board’s AP Exam Start Time Lookup Tool.

Practical field details for exam morning:

• The start time is when the exam begins, not when you arrive. Your AP coordinator tells you when and where to report.
• Most AP exams now run in the Bluebook app. Some, like Calculus, Chemistry and the physics exams, are hybrid: multiple choice in Bluebook, free response handwritten in a paper booklet.
• Section timing for the exams we cover adds up to between 2 hours 10 minutes (Macroeconomics, Microeconomics) and 3 hours 15 minutes (the three history exams and English Language), before check-in and breaks. Plan food, water and any medicine for a long session, not a class period.

Which exams overlap, and what if two of yours clash?

Two exams in the same session cannot be taken on the same day. The most common clashes for students with heavy AP loads are below.

Table 3. Same-session pairs in the 2027 schedule (computed from Table 1).

If you have a clash, you take one exam on its regular date and the other in late testing. AP Central lists “exams scheduled for the same time” as a reason to order late testing. Calculus AB and BC share a slot too, but students take only one of them.

When is AP late testing in 2027?

Late testing runs Monday, May 17 to Friday, May 21, 2027. College Board uses alternate versions of each exam, and all late testers at a school take them at the published date and time. Your AP coordinator places the order. The deadline is May 14, 2027 for US schools and May 4, 2027 outside the United States, per the AP Central key-dates timeline↗.

Table 4. Official 2027 AP late-testing schedule. Source: College Board, AP Central.

The late slot for an exam is fixed, so check it before you choose which clashing exam to move. For example, a student with Chemistry and African American Studies on May 6 afternoon could move Chemistry to May 20 morning or African American Studies to May 19 morning.

Deadlines that come before (and after) exam week

The exam dates are only half the calendar. These deadlines, from the AP student calendar↗ and the AP Central timeline, catch more students than the exams do.

Table 5. Key 2026–27 AP deadlines.

How to plan your study weeks around the schedule

A schedule is useful only if you work backward from it. Here is a plan built on the 2027 dates, with the reason for each step.

1. Mark your exam days first (now). As of October 15, 2026, the first exam is 200 days away. Put each of your dates in a calendar or our homework planner so you can see which weeks are crowded.
2. Start content review 8 weeks out: Monday, March 8, 2027. Eight weeks gives room to finish new content and still cycle through every unit twice.
3. Take a full timed practice exam 4 weeks out: April 5, 2027. Score it with the matching calculator above to see how far you are from a 3, 4 or 5, and spend the next two weeks on the weakest section.
4. Switch to timed free-response practice 2 weeks out: April 19, 2027. Timed writing shows whether you can finish each free-response question in its time limit, which untimed review hides.
5. Order exams by date in the final week. Review the earliest exam last before it. Leave the night before each exam light.

Worked example. A junior takes AP Chemistry (Thu May 6, afternoon), APUSH (Fri May 7, morning) and Calculus AB (Mon May 10, morning). Chemistry and APUSH are about 20 hours apart, so both need to be review-ready by the end of April. Calculus has the weekend before it. A sensible split for the last two weeks is Chemistry and APUSH alternating daily through May 5, APUSH-only on the evening of May 6, then Calculus over May 8–9. If a mock APUSH exam scores in the high 3 range on the APUSH score calculator, that is the subject that gets the extra evening.

For study techniques with research behind them, see our guide to study methods that work. Our AI test prep guide explains how to use AI to make practice questions without having it do the work for you.

Where AP schedules trip students up

Table 6. Common schedule problems, causes and fixes.

After the last exam

Once May 14 is behind you, the wait is about seven weeks. College Board says only that 2027 scores will be available in July. Our guide to when AP scores come out tracks the exact day, the June 15 cancellation deadline and the June 20 free score-send deadline. While you wait, you can run your remembered multiple-choice and free-response performance through the AP exam score calculator for a rough 1–5 estimate. You can also see how weighted AP grades lift your transcript in our GPA calculator with AP classes.