What is on the
AP Psychology exam?

The multiple-choice section, unit by unit

75 questions in 90 minutes.

The shape of it

Five units of exactly fifteen questions each, which is unusual. No unit can be written off, and no unit can carry you.

What this covers, and what it does not

No AP exam is entirely multiple choice, and AP Psychology is no exception. The multiple-choice section is 66.7% of your total score. The rest is two free-response questions in 70 minutes, an article analysis and an evidence-based question.

Our practice exam is the multiple-choice section only. A computer can mark 75 psychology questions honestly and tell you which distractor you fell for; it cannot mark an evidence-based question, and pretending otherwise would be the more comfortable lie. We would rather say that plainly than sell you something described as a full AP Psychology exam that is not one.

What actually moves the score

Definitions are worth more here than in any other AP on this list. A question that hinges on the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment is not a reasoning question, it is a vocabulary question, and vocabulary is learnable.

Two exams, calibrated against each other

There are two forms of this exam and they share no questions, so a second sitting tells you what you learned about reinforcement schedules rather than what you remembered about last month's paper. Both unlock together for five credits. Every wrong option carries its own explanation saying what the student who picked it was probably thinking.