Section I: Multiple Choice
60 Questions
1 Hour
50% of Exam Score
Individual questions.
Set-based questions.
Approximately 30%–40% of the multiple-choice questions will reference stimulus material, including maps, tables, charts, graphs, images, infographics, and/or landscapes, roughly evenly divided between quantitative and qualitative sources.
NO ELECTRONICS -- > eat, drink, sleep, walk, restroom
Section II: Free Response
3 Questions
1 Hour 15 Minutes
50% of Exam Score
Each free-response question presents students with an authentic geographic situation or scenario and assesses students’ ability to describe, explain, and apply geographic concepts, processes, or models, as they analyze geographic patterns, relationships, and outcomes in applied contexts.
Question 1 does not include any stimuli.
Question 2 includes 1 stimulus (data, image, or map).
Question 3 includes 2 stimuli (data, images, and/or maps).
At least one of the free-response questions assess students’ ability to analyze across geographic scales to explain spatial relationships.