Why AP?
The Advanced Placement (AP) program makes college and university courses available for students to take while they’re still in secondary school. This challenging program allows students to:
Research shows that students who succeed in rigorous course work such as Advanced Placement are developing college-level knowledge and skills while still in high school. These students are more likely than their peers to earn college degrees on time, saving money and progressing quicker into future careers.
The Advanced Placement (AP) program makes college and university courses available for students to take while they’re still in secondary school. This challenging program allows students to:
- Build university-ready study skills
- Earn high school and university credits
- Skip introductory college classes
- Distinguish themselves in university and college applications
Research shows that students who succeed in rigorous course work such as Advanced Placement are developing college-level knowledge and skills while still in high school. These students are more likely than their peers to earn college degrees on time, saving money and progressing quicker into future careers.
BrainChild Education offers full preparation for the AP Biology and AP Psychology exam.
Students take the exams in May at their high school or at the VSB district examination center.
AP BIOLOGY EXAM: 3 Hours
Exam questions are based on learning objectives, which combine science practices with specific content. Students learn to
Format of Exam
Section I: Multiple Choice | 69 Questions | 90 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score
AP PSYCHOLOGY EXAM: 2 HOURS
The AP Psychology Exam measures students' knowledge of the 14 key topics and fields of study in psychology and tests their ability to define, compare, and apply concepts and research findings. Questions are based on key terminology, scientific methodology, and theories associated with each subfield.
Free-response questions may require students to interrelate different content areas and to analyze and evaluate psychological constructs and, more generally, theoretical perspectives.
Format of Exam
Section I: Multiple Choice | 100 Questions | 70 Minutes | 66.6% of Exam Score
Topics/themes addressed by these questions may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Students take the exams in May at their high school or at the VSB district examination center.
AP BIOLOGY EXAM: 3 Hours
Exam questions are based on learning objectives, which combine science practices with specific content. Students learn to
- Solve problems mathematically including symbolically
- Design and describe experiments and analyze data and sources of error
- Explain, reason, or justify answers with emphasis on deeper, conceptual understanding
- Interpret and develop conceptual models
Format of Exam
Section I: Multiple Choice | 69 Questions | 90 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score
- Multiple-Choice: 63 Questions
- Discrete Questions
- Questions in sets
- Grid-In: 6 Questions
- Discrete Questions
- Questions integrate biology and mathematical skills
- Long Free Response (2 questions, one of which is lab or data-based)
- Short Free Response (6 questions, each requiring a paragraph-length argument/response)
AP PSYCHOLOGY EXAM: 2 HOURS
The AP Psychology Exam measures students' knowledge of the 14 key topics and fields of study in psychology and tests their ability to define, compare, and apply concepts and research findings. Questions are based on key terminology, scientific methodology, and theories associated with each subfield.
Free-response questions may require students to interrelate different content areas and to analyze and evaluate psychological constructs and, more generally, theoretical perspectives.
Format of Exam
Section I: Multiple Choice | 100 Questions | 70 Minutes | 66.6% of Exam Score
- Define and explain content from a range of course topics
- Apply skills of comparison and interpretation to course concepts, theories, and scientific methods
Topics/themes addressed by these questions may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Analyze a unique scenario using concepts from different theoretical frameworks or sub domains in the field
- Design, analyze, or critique a research study
