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Important Updates

Accessing Practice Materials
We’ve introduced a suite of new resources and a daily support tool called AP Classroom for teachers and students to use throughout the year. Designed and tested in collaboration with AP teachers, these resources include unit guides that cover the content and skills assessed on the exam, personal progress checks, and a dashboard to highlight strengths and opportunities for growth.

Learn more about the new resources

Preparing Students for the Exam
Create personalized practice with a library of multiple-choice and free-response AP questions you can assign to students online or on paper using the question bank in AP Classroom.

Sign In to AP Classroom

2019 Score Reports Now Available
Access 2019 AP score reports.

Go to AP Score Reports for Educators

Exam Overview

Exam questions assess the course concepts and skills outlined in the course framework. For more information on exam weighting, download the AP Psychology Course and Exam Description (CED). Scoring guidelines for each of the sample free-response questions in the CED are also available.

Encourage your students to visit the AP Psychology student page for exam information and exam practice.

  • Event
    • Tue, May 12, 2020

    AP Psychology Exam Day

    • Noon | 2 hrs

Exam Format

The AP Psychology Exam will continue to have consistent question types, weighting, and scoring guidelines every year, so you and your students know what to expect on exam day. The overall format of the exam—including the weighting, timing, types of questions, and types of stimulus materials—won’t change.

 Section I: Multiple Choice

100 Questions | 1 Hour 10 minutes | 66.7% of Exam Score

  • Questions will ask students to do the following:
    • Define and explain content from a range of course topics
    • Apply skills of concept application, data analysis, and scientific investigation

 Section II: Free Response

2 Questions | 50 minutes | 33.3% of Exam Score

  • Questions will ask students to do the following:
    • Explain behavior and apply theories using concepts from different theoretical frameworks or subdomains in the field
    • Analyze psychological research studies, including analyzing and interpreting quantitative data

Exam Questions and Scoring Information

For free-response questions (FRQs) from the 2019 exam, along with scoring information, check out the table below.

Be sure to review the Chief Reader Report (available this fall). In this invaluable resource, the chief reader of the AP Exam compiles feedback from members of the AP Reading leadership to explain how students performed on the FRQs, summarize typical student errors, and address specific concepts and content with which students have struggled the most that year.

2019: Free-Response Questions
Questions Scoring Samples and Commentary Score Distributions

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

Sample Responses Q1 - Set 1

Sample Responses Q1 - Set 2

Sample Responses Q2 - Set 1

Sample Responses Q2 - Set 2

 Scoring Distribution

Exam Practice

Score Reporting

Policies