F=MA EXAM REGISTRATION WILL OPEN MID OCTOBER 2024!!
EXAM INFORMATION
- Students must be either U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents of the United States (green card holders), or currently attending a U.S. school to participate in the F=ma exam. IMPORTANT: New for 2025, students must also be located within the U.S. to take the F=ma exam.
- Students must be either U.S. citizens, or legal permanent residents of the United States (green card holders), to take the USAPhO exam. IMPORTANT: Students must also be located within the U.S. to take the USAPhO exam.
- New for 2025, due to security concerns, for-profit test prep centers, and for-profit educational services will no longer be allowed to proctor the F=ma or USAPhO exams.
- If you are not the proctor for the exam, you will need to provide your proctors contact information when you register. You will need to provide the proctor's email address, and mailing address.
FEE STRUCTURE
School Registration Fee - $75 ($37.50 for AAPT Members) PER SCHOOL plus, $15 per student (You do not need to supply the names of students who will participate at this time; only the number of students.)
It is preferred that one person register all students from a school.
The F=ma exam will be sent to the teacher/proctor via email as a printable PDF. Teachers/proctors will also receive a printable answer sheet for the F=ma exam. Teachers/proctors will need to have the ability to print the exam and answer sheet, and then scan the completed answer sheets, and email them to AAPT.
REGISTRATION
Registration will open mid October.
- Both the F=ma and USAPhO exams must be proctored. Parents, relatives, or close friends and acquaintances of students are not acceptable proctors. It is expected and preferred that competitors will take the exam at their local school, though they may take the exam elsewhere if needed.
- Starting with the 2025 F=ma exam, for-profit test prep centers and educational services will no longer be allowed to proctor the F=ma or USAPhO exams.
- Homeschooled students should contact community colleges, universities, or libraries to ask if they have proctoring services. PARENTS OR RELATIVES OF HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE PROCTORS. Parents of homeschooled students may register their children for the exam, but they must provide information for an alternative proctor.
- In order to verify the identity of exam proctors, we ask that email addresses be official school email addresses whenever possible, ideally associated with a school district or an accredited private school.
- If you are unable to provide an official school email, then you will need to provide additional contact information for your organization in order to verify your identity and the identity of the organization
- Proctors cannot be relatives of the student(s) taking the exam. Proctors should have at least a 2-year degree, though this degree does not need to be related to physics. Libraries may proctor the test at a public library, provided they can observe the test to ensure the integrity of the process.
- Testing centers will need to acknowledge that they are a testing center, and provide a web address to verify their Non-Profit status.
PLEASE NOTE: The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) does not have any affiliation with, does not endorse, and does not recommend any test centers, schools, or other locations that offer proctoring services.
Furthermore, please be aware that AAPT does not facilitate or arrange test centers, teachers, or proctors for the F=ma or USAPhO exams. We do not maintain a shareable listing of centers or teachers that have participated or will participate in the exams.
The American Association of Physics Teachers may change the program rules, regulations, and conditions of participation in whole or in part. Whenever possible, teachers will be notified of these changes ahead of time.