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AP Computer Science Principles Exam Questions

Free-Response Questions (FRQs) and Scoring Information

We've received feedback from AP teachers that making several decades of old exam materials available on AP Central limits their usefulness in class—especially when students can find and share answers online. Accordingly, now that such questions are available for teacher use on AP Classroom, we'll only maintain the most recent three years of exam materials on AP Central.

This update ensures that AP teachers retain the flexibility to use these valuable resources as intended—to build skills, assess progress, and prepare students with integrity.

Changes will be made starting summer 2025. Thank you for your continued partnership and dedication to AP students. 

Starting with the 2024 exam, the through-course assessment will consist of an updated version of the Create performance task. The written response prompts for the Create performance task will be provided on the end-of-course exam. Scoring guidelines for the Create performance task written response prompts will be unique every year and are not provided in advance. 

Download exam materials from the past three years, which include scoring guidelines, sample responses from exam takers, and scoring distributions

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2025: Free-Response Questions

2025: Free-Response Questions

Free-Response QuestionsScoring InformationCreate – Sample Responses

Free-Response Questions, Set 1

Free-Response Questions, Set 2

Scoring Guidelines - Set 1

Scoring Guidelines - Set 2

Chief Reader Report - Set 1

Chief Reader Report - Set 2

Scoring Statistics - Set 1

Scoring Statistics - Set 2

Scoring Distributions

Commentary and Samples, Question 1, Set 1 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 1, Set 2 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 2, Set 1 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 2, Set 2 (.zip)

2024: Free-Response Questions

2024: Free-Response Questions

Free-Response Questions Scoring Information Create – Sample Responses

Free-Response Questions, Set 1

Free-Response Questions, Set 2

Scoring Guidelines, Set 1

Scoring Guidelines, Set 2

Chief Reader Report, Set 1

Chief Reader Report, Set 2

Scoring Statistics, Set 1

Scoring Statistics. Set 2

Scoring Distributions

Commentary and Samples, Question 1, Set 1 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 1, Set 2 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 2, Set 1 (.zip)

Commentary and Samples, Question 2, Set 2 (.zip)

2023: Sample Responses and Scoring Guidelines

Scoring Information from the 2023 Exam

Create – Sample Responses Scoring Information Scoring Commentary 

Sample A: Video
Sample A: Written Response

Sample B: Video
Sample B: Written Response

Sample C: Video
Sample C: Written Response

Sample D: Video
Sample D: Written Response

Sample E: Video
Sample E: Written Response

Sample F: Video
Sample F: Written Response

Sample G: Video
Sample G: Written Response

Sample H: Video
Sample H: Written Response

Sample I: Video
Sample I: Written Response

Sample J: Video
Sample J: Written Response

Scoring Guidelines

Chief Reader Report

Score Distributions

Create: Scoring Commentary