Taking the Advanced Placement exams is an important part of all AP courses. Plano East Senior High School desires that all students take AP exams for the AP classes that they have taken. Scoring well on an AP exam can often earn students college credit for their high school class, saving a significant amount on tuition.

For the 2027 AP exams, students at Plano East Senior High School will be registering online. Online Exam registration will begin on Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM and end on Fri, Mar 5, 2027 at 11:59 PM. The AP exam registration process is two steps, but both can be completed in one sitting when the student and parent/guardian do this together. Even if you do not plan to take the AP exam, you need to complete both steps to access the College Board’s AP resources. Both steps must be completed in order to have AP exams ordered:

Step 1: Go to totalregistration.net/AP/445569 and sign in with your Total Registration account. If you have not used this site before, you will need to create an account.

• It is important that you do not create multiple accounts. This causes issues with registration between College Board and Total Registration. 

• Please make sure you put the same first and last name as is on your College Board account and double check you enter your Student ID number correctly.

• When creating the account, please use your school email address. I will be sending reminders and communications through Total Registration about testing information, and it will go to the email address you used to register. Sometimes personal email addresses get blocked, or it goes to junk mail. 

• If you already have an account, you were sent an email on the morning of 8/25 to the email they have on file with the website as a reminder. 

  • If you cannot remember and don't see an email, you can ask me and I can look up which email you used.

  • If you no longer have access to that email, I can update the email address on your account. I cannot update passwords or access your account. 

• If you have siblings on campus, they must have a separate account. You cannot use the same account to register for multiple students' AP exams. 

• It is recommended that you complete the AP Registration and payment process with a parent present so you can register and pay all at one time. 

• If you qualify for free/reduced lunch please make sure to check that box during registration.

  • Checking this box does not guarantee you will receive a reduced rate. You must have already been approved by the school for free/reduced lunch and it has to be verified before it is applied to your AP exam fees.

  • If you want to apply for free/reduced lunch at East you can visit www.schoolcafe.com/pisd to complete the application. More information can be found at https://www.pisd.edu/departments-66/food-and-nutritional-services/mealprogram 

  • If you check this box you will not be able to pay immediately after registration, you will have to wait until your free/reduced status has been confirmed or denied.

  • Once a decision has been made you will receive an email to the address on file. You will then be able to log in and pay for your exams. 

• If you are an IB student and plan on taking IB exams this year. Make sure to check off any and all IB exams you will be taking. This will automatically identify potential scheduling conflicts. If I am not made aware of these conflicts, your exam will not be rescheduled.  

• Once you have registered for your AP exam(s) , you will receive a confirmation screen which includes the Join Codes for the AP Classroom Sections that correlate to the exams you just registered for. I would suggest taking a screenshot of this confirmation page for your records. You should also receive an email with this confirmation page to the address on file. Please see Step 2. 

Step 2 : Log in to your AP Classroom account. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Do not create multiple accounts.  Use your school email address for all College Board accounts. 

• If you have not already joined your teachers' AP Classroom sections, you need to do that. You can do this by getting the join code from your AP teachers OR by using he join codes provided during AP Exam Registration in the Total Registration confirmation screen (as seen in the last part of step 1). 

• If you chose to take an "exam-only" exam, as in you are not in the course but you would like to take the AP exam. This is not affiliated with a teachers class and you should not be in a teachers AP Classroom section. Instead you were provided with a join code for an "exam only" AP Classroom section. You need to join this section in order for your AP Exam to be ordered. 

  • If there is an exam you want to take as exam-only but see that it is not currently offered. Please email the CTC - Avery.bustetter@pisd.edu 

• DO NOT join a random teachers AP Classroom section. You should only be in your teacher's section that aligns with your class schedule or an exam only section. 2nd semester only courses have a separate registration window, and you will register for those in the Spring. (Example - Economics, Government, and Physics C E&M)

This year each AP exam costs $103.00. Plano East Senior High School desires that every student be able to take their AP exams. 

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