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For 2025, REVISIONS TO THE AP EXAM are viewable here
Exam: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 PM Session (12 p.m.)
Our AP Exam Prep Packet (Apart from this "All-in-one-Guide", we will build a packet during our month-long review)
AP Vocabulary Terms (Key vocab for AP Exam! I'll provide a more focused list) Kahoot Review Game #1
Our Course's Exam Prep PowerPoint APA DICTIONARY!
AP Key Topics (Cram Sheet of Key Unit Topics for AP Exam!) Key People Flashcards
We will have our own month of prep in class. All of those in-class files are linked below. (At the start of the year, a few links above have been unlinked.)
Exam Breakdown
AP courses cover a great deal of material, so the best strategy is to selectively study and fill knowledge gaps over the course of 6-8 weeks prior to the AP exam. Selectively choosing topics to study based on your own weaknesses helps target those sections where you know you will do poorly, while avoiding those portions where you will do well even without review. It is very unwise to cram for AP exams. Don’t underestimate the time that goes into earning a 4 or a 5. You are being tested on knowledge that you have accumulated over the course of the year and studying at the last minute will only stress you out. If there are certain concepts that are difficult to remember, solve for or discuss on the exam – you may want to be creative in using acronyms, flash cards, or other memory tools to help remember terms, dates, operations or any other items that are difficult to remember.
Exam Review Plan - Feel confident with this checklist.
We will have our own month of prep in class. All of those in-class files are linked below.
Recommendation would be to take a practice exam as the exam gets closer (we will take one in class), evaluate areas to focus your study on, prepare, and then take one more practice exam.
Review the "Exam Prep Packet" study guide provided in class and linked above.
Study vocab! The exam (especially the multiple-choice) is very vocabulary and terminology heavy, so make flashcards, quizlets, free AP Psych. Online Notecards...whatever you have to do. APA DICTIONARY!
Review "Confusing Pairs". If you can master those concepts, it will probably be worth 30-40 points.
Take a practice exam. Old exams are linked below. With your notecards handy, look up terms that you did not know or people you did not remember. Online textbook
Review the PowerPoint from earlier in the year on Research Methods - you should be able to set up an experiment (control/experimental group, independent/dependent variables, be able to eliminate confounding variables, and explain ethical rules.) Also, know the difference between case studies, naturalistic observations, surveys, and correlational research; "RIPE" acronym, and list of strengths and limitations; our list of "validities".
And remember "correlation DOES NOT mean causation!
Review the famous people in psychology. You should be able to associate each name with their main contribution (Pavlov-Classical Conditioning, Watson-Little Albert-classical conditioning of fear, Skinner - Operant Conditioning, Piaget - Cognitive Development and many more).
Go to the AP free response page and look at as many free responses as possible. See if you could write them; if you can identify the vocabulary terms. The average student in AP Psych from around the nation GETS HALF of the answers correct. Remember you are better than average and have been all year long! Do not forget our writing template: FRQs. Here is a Guide Format of FRQs per the AP Board
Review the things that have stages or different types or lists, such as - stages of sleep, types of memory, 7 schools of psychology (psychoanalytic, humanistic, evolutionary, etc...), theories of emotion, types of motivation, types of therapy, Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, Eriksen's Stages of Man, Kohlberg's Moral Ladder, reinforcers and punishment. (I'll help you put this together via the exam prep packet!)
Take the practice questions linked at the bottom of this page.
Create a study environment (reference from Fiveable)
Key Files (updating now...)
Confusing Pairs (Psych terms; often missed)
Major Structures of the Brain (also see slide 15 of our Exam Prep Course PPT)
For more, check out 2-min Neuroscience YouTube videos on a range of topics and functions.
Key Contributors Part II (lots of overlap from #3; you will not need to know all of these!)
Database of AP Psych Vocab (will help with making notecards; Control "F" to search for words
Study Guide: A Complete Review of Key Stages and Models in AP Psychology
The following section below is from PrepScholar
Before you start studying for AP Psych, you should know the difference between where you are in your knowledge of the material and where you want to be.
Find an official practice test below, print it out, and take it as though it were the real AP Psych test (70 minutes for the 100 multiple-choice questions and 50 minutes for the two free-response questions). Then, use the following chart to estimate your final AP score based on your raw scores:
Raw Composite Score AP Score
113-150 5
93-112 4
77-92 3
65-76 2
0-64 1
To calculate your final score, you must first add up all the multiple-choice questions you answered correctly (each question is worth 1 point). Next, convert the number of points you earned on the free-response questions to a value out of 50. For example, if you got 8 out of 14 points on the two free-response questions (each question is worth 7 points), it would convert to about 29 out of 50.
Lastly, add your multiple-choice score (out of 100) and your free-response score (out of 50) to find your composite raw AP Psychology score (out of 150). Use the chart above to see the estimate for your final AP score on a scale of 1-5.
Still, it's important to be aware that the AP Psychology test also changed slightly in 2019-2020 (mostly in terms of course units and how the free-response section is scored). You can read more about these changes and the current format in the 2020 Course and Exam Description.
There are four official AP Psych practice tests you can download for free as PDFs:
If you're looking for more free-response practice specifically, you can try working on official free-response questions in isolation. Most of these also have accompanying answer keys and sample responses to help you better understand what the graders are expecting. You can get tons of free-response questions on the College Board website (from 2021 all the way back to 1999).
Additionally, if you want to practice multiple-choice questions without having to take a complete practice exam, you can check out the sample questions in the AP Psychology Course Descriptions:
2019-20 AP Psych Course Description: Includes 15 multiple-choice questions and two free-response questions, as well as answers
2014-15 AP Psych Course Description: Includes 25 multiple-choice questions and two free-response questions, as well as answers
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