For the 2025 Advanced Placement Exams, 28 of the courses’ tests will go digital. Of the 28, 16 will be completely digital, with 12 hybrid. The AP exams have slowly converted to digital testing over the past few years.
At Miami Palmetto Senior High, courses like AP World History and AP U.S. History have been digital for recent exams, starting in 2020. But other classes, like AP Art History, are just now transitioning to digital.
“It’s really great that we’re adapting to a digital society. Some of the tests, like AP Art History, was slated to be digital next school year, 2025-2026, but due to certain situations, they are scrambling to put us digitally this year. It’s a little daunting, but slowly, we’re just trying to incorporate a few things using AP classroom,” AP Art History teacher Christine Moros said.
With the switch to digital, more classes are utilizing AP Classroom. The website gives students the ability to watch videos and take multiple choice practice on the computer, so they can prepare for the online version before the exam.
“AP Classroom is great because it gives you a really good word bank. It also gives you examples of test questions,” Moros said.
AP classes in the Science Technology Engineering and Math field are hybrid, with an online multiple-choice portion is online and free-response questions written on paper. However, some classes do the Free Response Questions on the computer.
“Today, [the students] are having a practice FRQ digitally. I’m trying to get computers for my class, and that way any students who don’t have a computer, they can use these. So in class, we are actually actively writing through an FRQ in college board, and then once the students can submit them, they can grade themselves, then I can go in and grade them and add notes and explain what they can do right,” Moros said.
The switch to digital not only benefits students but also makes grading a lot easier for teachers as well.
“It benefits with the ease of grading the MCQs, I’m able to score the test very quickly, and I can release the scores, put them in the grade book quicker. I’m also able to allow us to go over our answers really quickly, because they can just open up their computer and see what questions they got right or wrong, and we can add to a conversation with the class about that,” Moros said.
