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I receive some recurring questions about the AP score distributions I post, so here are the key reminders.
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The at-home AP Exams this year will not include any multiple-choice questions, only free-response questions adapted for secure testing at home. They will measure skills that can't be learned from Google or chats with friends. By April 3, we will post the specifics for each exam.
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It pains me to report this, but the AP English Literature scores this year are the lowest they’ve been this decade.
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1 Nebraska student has an interesting test schedule conflict: she's taking both AP Italian and AP Japanese this year. And AP Chinese, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish. I hope she's our future Secretary of State. Or President.
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The 2020 AP US History scores: 5: 13%; 4: 19.2%; 3: 26.6%; 2: 20.4%; 1: 21%
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Wow. The 2019 AP US History scores are the largest one-year increase in student mastery I’ve seen in APUSH, the highest % of 5s in the past decade + significant increases in 3s and 4s as well. Nice work, APUSH teachers and students.
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The 2020 AP English Language and Composition scores: 5: 12.5%; 4: 20.4%; 3: 29.1%; 2: 26.2%; 1: 11.8%.
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1 student out of 256,000 worldwide earned all 120/120 pts possible on this year’s AP Biology exam. Looking forward to him/her curing cancer.
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I’m thrilled to announce that Hamilton creator/genius
@Lin_Manuel
will be joining us for a special edition AP U.S. History lesson. Watch on YouTube this Friday at noon Eastern Time.
#APMasterClass
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The 2020 AP World History – Modern scores: 5: 9.2%; 4: 22.8%; 3: 28.2%; 2: 26.1%; 1: 13.7%.
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We've just cancelled the AP exam registrations of a ring of students who were developing plans to cheat, and we're currently investigating others. It's not worth the risk of having your name reported to college admissions offices.
Millions of hard-working AP students across the country are getting ready for AP Exams. On their behalf, we have a comprehensive approach to ensuring a fair testing environment.
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The 2018 AP English Literature scores: 5: 5.6%; 4: 14.6%; 3: 27.2%; 2: 36.1%; 1: 16.5%. This is bad news: after last year’s record low, this is a further significant decline in student performance, the lowest proportion of AP Lit scores of 3,4,5 ever, I believe.
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The 2020 AP Psychology scores: 5: 22.3%; 4: 25.3%; 3: 23.4%; 2: 9.6%; 1: 19.4%.
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A truly inspiring increase in AP English Literature scores this year, the result of years of effort from AP teachers and an accumulation of powerful data from colleges on how well AP students are performing in further college English courses after placing out of the intro course:
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AP English Literature students demonstrated significantly stronger skills of literary analysis this year than in 2018, increasing the % of students scoring 3+ by several points. Kudos to AP teachers for reversing a multi-year decline in literary analysis. Keep up the good work.
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The AP Physics C: Mechanics exam has just been completed by ~50,000 inspiring students who took an AP exam in a way different from any of us expected this year. Congratulations to these students for making history!
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The 2023 AP US History scores: 5: 11%; 4: 15%; 3: 22%; 2: 23%; 1: 29%.
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The 2020 AP English Literature and Composition scores: 5: 9.3%; 4: 17.3%; 3: 33.5%; 2: 27.7%; 1: 12.2%.
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The 2017 AP English Language & Composition scores: 5: 9.1%; 4: 18.4%; 3: 27.8%; 2: 30.7%; 1: 14%.
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The 2023 AP English Language & Composition scores: 5: 10%; 4: 20%; 3: 26%; 2: 29%; 1: 15%. Big praise: AP English Lang teachers achieved the largest equity/access gains of any subject (40,000 more students admitted this year) and scores increased as well.
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The 2018 AP Psychology exam scores: 5: 21.1%; 4: 26.3%; 3: 18.3%; 2: 14.5%; 1: 19.8%. This year’s student performance was the strongest it's been in years, with a solid increase in the percentage of 4s and 5s. Well done.
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The full course schedule for the free, live online AP classes is now available, along with information about what will be covered this week.
Links to upcoming classes are here: . More will be posted shortly.
Lessons begin tomorrow, March 25.
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The 2017 AP United States History scores: 5: 10.9; 4: 17.9%; 3: 22.6%; 2: 23.5%; 1: 25.1%.
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The 2020 AP Calculus BC scores: 5: 44.2%; 4: 17.4%; 3: 19.2%; 2: 14.4%; 1: 4.8%.
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The most frequent question after today's AP U.S. Government and Politics exam: I forgot to write my AP ID or initials at the top of each page. Do I have to request a make-up? The answer: No, we can score your work even without that helpful info.
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1 student, out of nearly 600,000 worldwide, achieved all 150/150 points possible on this year’s AP English Language exam. I can’t wait to read her/his essays; a student able to write a suite of perfect arguments within such time constraints sounds like the next Woolf or MLK.
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The 2020 AP US Government and Politics scores: 5: 15.3%; 4: 16.2%; 3: 25.1%; 2: 21.8%; 1: 21.6%.
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The 2020 AP Biology scores: 5: 9.4%; 4: 22.5%; 3: 36.6%; 2: 24.2%; 1: 7.3%.
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The 2018 AP English Language & Composition scores: 5: 10.6%; 4: 17.8%; 3: 29%; 2: 29.3%; 1: 13.3%. The knowledge/skills measured by this exam have a very strong relationship to overall college success, so it’s great to see significant increases in 3,4,5s compared to last year.
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The health and safety of educators and students are the AP Program’s highest priorities. We considered canceling AP testing this year, but 91% of AP students surveyed asked we not. So we’ll invest heavily to provide optional online daily AP review classes and at-home AP testing.
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Nice work! This year's AP Environmental Science students achieved the highest % of exams scoring 3+ in this subject this decade. The planet Earth says congrats and thank you.
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2016 AP US History scores: 5: 11.7%; 4: 17.9%; 3: 22.5%; 2: 23.4%; 1: 24.5%.
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The 2020 AP Chemistry scores: 5: 10.4%; 4: 18.2%; 3: 26.4%; 2: 23.8%; 1: 21.1%.
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2015 AP US History scores: 5: 9.3%; 4: 17.8%; 3: 23.6%; 2: 25%; 1: 24.3%.
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The AP Program is developing resources to help schools support student learning during closures, as well as a solution that would allow students to take AP Exams at home, depending on the situation in May. We'll communicate the details by March 20. More: .
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The 2018 AP US Government & Politics scores: 5: 13.4%; 4: 13.3%; 3: 26.5%; 2: 24.5%; 1: 22.3%. Kudos to these students and their teachers, as these are the highest scores in many years. (By way of comparison, just a few years ago, the percentage of 5s was 9.8%.)
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The 2020 AP Calculus AB scores: 5: 19%; 4: 20.4%; 3: 20.5%; 2: 24.1%; 1: 16%.
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The 2023 AP Calculus BC scores: 5: 42%; 4: 16%; 3: 20%; 2: 16%; 1: 6%. This is an increase over last year, really impressive scores (all those 5s!), although not yet back to pre-pandemic levels.
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Our response to ICE’s threat to deport international college students: “No family and no country will forget if their students are summarily banished during a pandemic; it is the opposite of hospitality and decency, and it will stain us for years to come.”
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The 2023 AP US Government and Politics scores: 5: 13%; 4: 11%; 3: 25%; 2: 24%; 1: 27%. These scores and the required points are consistent over the past decade. I wish colleges were less stringent in the points they require for 3s/4s/5s in this subject!
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The 2020 AP Statistics scores: 5: 16%; 4: 20.6%; 3: 22.9%; 2: 21.6%; 1: 18.9%.
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The 2020 AP Human Geography scores: 5: 11.6%; 4: 22.1%; 3: 24.5%; 2: 10.9%; 1: 30.9%.
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2016 AP English Language & Composition scores: 5: 10.6%; 4: 17.5%; 3: 27.2%; 2: 32.1%; 1: 12.6%.
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1 AP US History student, out of ~500,000, earned a perfect score of 130/130 pts; first time we have seen that achievement in many years.
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The 2021 AP US History scores – 5: 11%; 4: 16%; 3: 21%; 2: 22%; 1: 30%. More details about these scores are available here: .
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Frankenstein was the novel most students chose to write about on this year’s AP English Lit exam, followed by Things Fall Apart; Beloved; Metamorphosis; The Picture of Dorian Grey; Heart of Darkness; Pride and Prejudice; Great Expectations; Crime and Punishment; Kindred.
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The 2023 AP Psychology scores: 5: 17%; 4: 23%; 3: 20%; 2: 12%; 1: 28%. Kudos to AP Psychology teachers and students: psychometric equating shows that learning outcomes were stronger this year, so scores went up, even as 27,000 more students were given seats at this table.
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This afternoon, we have begun cancelling the scores of AP Psychology students who actively attempted to reconstruct and distribute information about the exam, even though such efforts were prevented by the differences in exam versions across time zones.
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The 2023 AP Statistics scores: 5: 15%; 4: 22%; 3: 23%; 2: 16%; 1: 24%. Great work: these are higher than the pre-pandemic scores of 2019, let alone last year, and educators invited 10% more students into the AP Stats classroom this year than last.
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Over the next few weeks, as AP Exam scoring is completed for each subject, I’ll be tweeting the overall score distributions. Here's what to expect.
⬇️ Thread
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AP Biology students achieve an all-time high: in 65 years of AP Biology, this year’s students have earned the highest % of 3+ scores ever, even while teachers have expanded access to 6,000 more students this year.
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AP Statistics FRQ6 (statistical inference) was far too difficult for both college students and AP students, so even the cutscore to earn a 5 did not require any points on this problematic question.
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The 2023 AP Biology scores: 5: 14%; 4: 23%; 3: 27%; 2: 24%; 1: 12%.
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The 2017 AP English Literature scores: 5: 6.8%; 4: 16.1%; 3: 29.9%; 2: 33.9%; 1: 13.3%.
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An overdue shout-out to yesterday's astonishing 300K
#APGoPo
students who showed up to write argumentative essays and analyze concepts on this year's exam. Their success is a real testament to their own persistence and their teachers' belief in them.
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The 2023 AP English Literature & Composition scores: 5: 15%; 4: 28%; 3: 34%; 2: 14%; 1: 9%.
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The 2021 AP English Language & Composition scores – 5: 8%; 4: 23%; 3: 26%; 2: 31%; 1: 12%. More details about these scores are available here: .
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A significant growth in high scores among AP World History students this year – great job!
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2015 AP English Language & Composition scores: 5: 9.8%; 4: 18.4%; 3: 27.3%; 2: 29.7%; 1: 14.8%.
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It’s that time of year: over the next three weeks, each AP subjects’ scoring will be complete, and I’ll tweet what I can see in the data. I’ll start posting results shortly. Once all subjects are finished, we’ll upload into online reports for colleges, students, and schools.
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The 2024 AP US History Exam scores:
5: 13%; 4: 33%; 3: 26%; 2: 20%; 1: 8%.
All subjects’ AP score distributions for 2024 will be posted here when available:
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The 2018 AP US History exam scores: 5: 10.4%; 4: 18.2%; 3: 22.5%; 2: 23.1%; 1: 25.8%. (These scores are very similar to last year’s students’.)
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We’re launching a new resource for AP students on September 1. AP teachers will be recording daily video lessons for AP courses. These AP Daily videos will be available in AP Classroom.
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The 2021 AP English Literature scores – 5: 5%; 4: 12%; 3: 27%; 2: 39%; 1: 17%. More detailed info about these scores is here: .
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The 2017 AP US Government & Politics scores 5: 11.2%; 4: 12.5%; 3: 25.8%; 2: 24.7%; 1: 25.8%.
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The 2017 AP Calculus BC scores: 5: 42.4%; 4: 18.3%; 3: 19.9%; 2: 14.3%; 1: 5.1%.
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The 2018 AP Chemistry scores: 5: 12.6%; 4: 17.3%; 3: 25%; 2: 24.1%; 1: 21%. This is a pretty large increase in scores -- the highest scores in the past 5 years – so very impressive work from this year’s AP Chemistry students.
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The 2020 AP Spanish Language and Culture scores: 5: 30.5%; 4: 36.4%; 3: 23.1%; 2: 8.8%; 1: 1.2%.
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Important reminder for AP students: Do not provide your College Board username and password to other sites or users. You must maintain the confidentiality of this information. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your College Board account.
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What’s the reason for the continued drop in AP English Lit scores? Exam difficulty = constant; teaching ability has not declined; participation did not grow. A hypothesis: has increased focus on non-fiction texts in earlier years reduced student readiness for literary analysis?
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The 2017 AP Biology scores: 5: 6.2%; 4: 20.9%; 3: 36.7%; 2: 27.8%; 1: 8.4%.
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Florida recently notified us that we must modify any AP courses that include content prohibited by their new laws that restrict instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Our response:
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Because of the challenges created by COVID-19, we’re developing online AP Exams students can take at home.
This year's exams will be given May 11-22 and June 1-5. Exams will be 45 minutes, consisting of one or two FRQs, and will be open book/open note.
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The 2023 AP Calculus AB scores: 5: 22%; 4: 16%; 3: 20%; 2: 22%; 1: 20%. This is a hefty increase over last year, rivaling pre-pandemic performance; exciting to see this strong recovery, given the pandemic’s impact on math sequences/proficiency.
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~28,000 college professors & AP teachers have finished reading students’ AP exams, so I’ll be able to post the overall results this week while the individual results are being prepared for release beginning July 15.
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Now that all subjects are ready, we’ll spend the next week uploading and formatting the exam data into the score reports for students and educators.
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As we wrap up our first day of online AP classes, I want to express gratitude, on behalf of myself and the College Board, for the AP teachers making these classes possible.
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Most AP Exam scores will be released July 15-17, by location.
Students who tested in the June 22-30 exception testing window or submitted exam responses via the backup email submission option in any of the testing windows should have scores by August 7.
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AP Biology students and teachers have achieved the highest number of scores of 3+ of any of the past 5 years.
#equityandexcellence
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The 2017 AP Calculus AB scores: 5: 18.6%; 4: 18.1%; 3: 21%; 2: 21.9%; 1: 20.4%.
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112 students (!) out of more than 300,000 worldwide, earned all 120/120 points possible on this year’s AP US Government & Politics exam.
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2016 AP Psychology scores: 5: 19%; 4: 26.1%; 3: 19.1%; 2: 14.2%; 1: 21.6%.
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Over the next few weeks, as AP scoring is completed for each subject, I’ll be tweeting the overall score distributions. Here’s some additional explanation of what I’ll be sharing: .
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AP students took nearly 2.2 million AP Exams last week, and we’re so proud of every student who tested.
However, some students had tech challenges submitting their responses. So we're providing an extra safeguard for students moving forward.
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I once heard calculus described as one of the supreme achievements of the human mind. It’s hard to disagree.
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The 2017 AP World History scores: 5: 8.5%; 4: 20.1%; 3: 27%; 2: 29.5%; 1: 14:9%.
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The 2020 AP Physics 1 scores: 5: 8.7%; 4: 17.7%; 3: 24.5%; 2: 26.3%; 1: 22.8%.
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2015 AP World History scores: 5: 6.4%; 4: 14%; 3: 31.3%; 2: 30.1%; 1: 18.2%.
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2016 AP World History scores: 5: 6.5%; 4: 15.5%; 3: 29.2%; 2: 28.9%; 1: 19.9%.
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The 2017 AP Psychology scores: 5: 18.8%; 4: 25.2%; 3: 20.1%; 2: 14.7%; 1: 21.2%.
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AP US History students/teachers have perhaps achieved biggest score increases of any subject so far this yr, also w/25K more students. Wow.
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The 2021 AP World History scores – 5: 10%; 4: 18%; 3: 24%; 2: 30%; 1: 18%. More details about these scores are available here: .
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The 2023 AP Spanish Language scores (total group): 5: 24%; 4: 30%; 3: 30%; 2: 14%; 1:3%. Congrats to AP Spanish teachers, who continue to build back toward pre-pandemic levels of student proficiency – this is a significant increase in scores over last year.
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2016 AP Calculus AB results: 5: 24.4%; 4: 17.4%; 3: 17.6%; 2: 9.7%; 1: 30.9%. These don't yet include the scores from outside North America.
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2017 AP Macroeconomics scores 5: 16.4%; 4: 23.1%; 3: 17.2%; 2: 16.2%; 1: 27.1%. These=the highest AP Macro scores in many years. Congrats!
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AP US History long essays: ~5x more students chose to write on 19th Amendment rather than market revolution.
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The 2020 AP Environmental Science scores: 5: 11.8%; 4: 28.3%; 3: 13%; 2: 25.4%; 1: 21.5%.
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AP Exam scores will be released beginning 1 week from today.
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1 student, out of 133,000 worldwide, earned all 108/108 points possible on this year’s AP Calculus BC Exam.
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