The AP^® Program

The Advanced Placement Program (AP) is a collaborative effort between motivated students; dedicated teachers; and committed high schools, colleges, and universities. Since its inception in 1955, the Program has enabled millions of students to take college-level courses and exams, and to earn college credit or placement, while still in high school.

Each AP course has a corresponding exam that participating schools worldwide administer during the month of May, every year. AP Exams contain multiple-choice questions and a free-response section consisting of questions where students must show work in the form of essays, analytical work and or problem solving.

The AP Exam is a culminating assessment in each respective AP course and is thus an integral part of the AP Program. As a result, students enrolled in an AP course are expected to take the corresponding AP Exam.

Most colleges and universities in the United States, as well as colleges and universities in more than 30 other countries, have an AP policy granting incoming students credit, placement, or both on the basis of their AP Exam grades. Many of these institutions grant up to a full year of college credit to students who earn a sufficient number of qualifying AP grades.

Each year, an increasing number of parents, students, teachers, high schools, and colleges and universities turn to the AP Program as a model of educational excellence.

More information about the AP Program is available at AP Central, the College Board’s online home for AP courses (apcentral.collegeboard.com). Students can find more information at the AP student site (www.collegeboard.com/apstudents).

Welcome to AP^® Statistics – An Introduction

The AP course and exam in Statistics are offered to high school students who wish to complete studies equivalent to a one-semester, introductory, non-calculus-based, college course in statistics. An introductory statistics course, similar to the AP Statistics course, is typically required in college for majors such as social sciences, health sciences, and business. Science, engineering, and mathematics college majors usually take an upper-level calculus-based course in statistics, for which the AP Statistics course is effective preparation.

Students who successfully complete the AP Statistics course and exam may receive credit, advanced placement, or both for a one-semester introductory college statistics course. Each high school, in conformance with the standards set by the College Board, determines the length of its AP Statistics course to best serve the needs of its students.

At our school, the AP Statistics course is a single period (43 minutes) five days a week, two–semester class, beginning in September and ending in June. It is offered to students who have successfully completed six semesters of required high school Math credits and passed the Regents Math Exam (typically covering the sequence Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II). The class can be taken instead of, or in addition to, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, or AP Calculus. Students with teacher recommendations may take this AP Course Concurrently with Algebra 2.