AP Score Calculator
Turn your AP multiple-choice and free-response points into the weighted composite, for 20 subjects, with each exam's published score distribution.
AP Score Calculator: with the default inputs, weighted composite is 70.3%.
There is no deduction for a wrong answer on any current AP exam.
The whole free-response section. On AP U.S. History, World History and European History, put your short-answer (SAQ) points here and use the two fields below.
Your own target, not a published cut — the College Board does not release the point thresholds for any AP score.
Your share of the points available, weighted as the College Board weights the sections.
- Multiple-choice section
- 72.7%
- Free-response section
- 68.2%
- Composite points from multiple choice
- 29.1
- Composite points from free response
- 41.2
- Raw points earned
- 55 of 77
- More multiple-choice questions for your target
- 7Holding the free-response score where it is. Blank when the target is out of reach that way.
- More free-response points for your target
- 3Holding the multiple-choice score where it is.
- Share who scored 5 in 2026
- 14%
- Share who scored 3 or higher in 2026
- 74%
Assumptions
- The College Board publishes no raw-score-to-AP-score conversion for any subject, so no predicted 1–5 is shown. Checked against the Course and Exam Descriptions, AP Central and the official AP Score Scale Table.
- Section weights and multiple-choice counts are each subject's published exam format for the next administration; free-response maximums were counted question by question from the 2025 Scoring Guidelines.
- AP Statistics' free-response maximum of 40 comes from its own exam page ("four 10-point question types"), because its free-response section was rebuilt after the 2025 rubric.
- AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics publish weights of 66% and 33%, which are thirds rounded to whole numbers; they are normalised so a perfect paper scores 100.
- The AP History short-answer maximum is 9, not 12: the paper prints four questions but every student answers three.
- Score distributions are the published 2026 results and describe that year's cohort, not the conversion.
- Subjects scored partly by portfolio or performance task (Computer Science Principles, Seminar, Research, Art & Design) and the world-language exams are not modelled, because the student cannot mark those parts themselves.
| Section | Your points | Weight | Composite points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple choice | 40 of 55 | 40% | 29.1 |
| Short answer (SAQ) | 6 of 9 | 20% | 13.3 |
| Document-based question | 5 of 7 | 25% | 17.9 |
| Long essay (LEQ) | 4 of 6 | 15% | 10 |
Weights are the College Board's published section weights for this exam.
| AP score | % of students | At or above |
|---|---|---|
| Score of 5 | 14 | 14 |
| Score of 4 | 37 | 51 |
| Score of 3 | 23 | 74 |
| Score of 2 | 18 | 92 |
| Score of 1 | 8 | 100 |
College Board's published distribution for this subject. This is an outcome, not a conversion — it cannot be read backwards to a point threshold.
How this is worked out
The formula
composite = Σ (points earned on section ÷ points available on section) × section weight section weight = the College Board's published percentage for that section There is deliberately no composite → 1–5 step: the College Board publishes no such table.
Open How it’s calculated above to see this worked through with your own numbers.
What you enter
- AP subject
- Choose one of 20 options.AP United States History (APUSH) · AP English Language and Composition (AP Lang) · AP World History: Modern (AP World) · AP Calculus AB (AP Calc AB) · AP Chemistry (AP Chem) · AP Statistics (AP Stats) · AP Biology (AP Bio) · AP United States Government and Politics (AP Gov) · AP English Literature and Composition (AP Lit) · AP Calculus BC (AP Calc BC) · AP Psychology (AP Psych) · AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based (AP Physics 1) · AP Precalculus (AP Precalc) · AP Physics C: Mechanics (AP Physics C) · AP European History (AP Euro) · AP Environmental Science (APES) · AP Macroeconomics (AP Macro) · AP Microeconomics (AP Micro) · AP Computer Science A (AP CSA) · AP Human Geography (AP HuG)
- Multiple-choice questions correct
- There is no deduction for a wrong answer on any current AP exam.from 0 to 100 · whole numbers only · defaults to 40
- Free-response points earned
- The whole free-response section. On AP U.S. History, World History and European History, put your short-answer (SAQ) points here and use the two fields below.from 0 to 100 · defaults to 6
- Document-based question points(under More options)
- APUSH, AP World and AP Euro only. Ignored on every other subject.from 0 to 10 · defaults to 5
- Long essay (LEQ) points(under More options)
- APUSH, AP World and AP Euro only. Ignored on every other subject.from 0 to 10 · defaults to 4
- Composite you are aiming for
- Your own target, not a published cut — the College Board does not release the point thresholds for any AP score.a percentage · from 0 to 100 · defaults to 75
What you get back
- Weighted compositemain answer
- Your share of the points available, weighted as the College Board weights the sections.
- Multiple-choice section
- Free-response section
- Composite points from multiple choice
- Composite points from free response
- Raw points earned
- More multiple-choice questions for your target
- Holding the free-response score where it is. Blank when the target is out of reach that way.
- More free-response points for your target
- Holding the multiple-choice score where it is.
- Share who scored 5 in 2026
- Share who scored 3 or higher in 2026
What this assumes
- The College Board publishes no raw-score-to-AP-score conversion for any subject, so no predicted 1–5 is shown. Checked against the Course and Exam Descriptions, AP Central and the official AP Score Scale Table.
- Section weights and multiple-choice counts are each subject's published exam format for the next administration; free-response maximums were counted question by question from the 2025 Scoring Guidelines.
- AP Statistics' free-response maximum of 40 comes from its own exam page ("four 10-point question types"), because its free-response section was rebuilt after the 2025 rubric.
- AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics publish weights of 66% and 33%, which are thirds rounded to whole numbers; they are normalised so a perfect paper scores 100.
- The AP History short-answer maximum is 9, not 12: the paper prints four questions but every student answers three.
- Score distributions are the published 2026 results and describe that year's cohort, not the conversion.
- Subjects scored partly by portfolio or performance task (Computer Science Principles, Seminar, Research, Art & Design) and the world-language exams are not modelled, because the student cannot mark those parts themselves.
About this calculator
What this actually tells you
Enter your multiple-choice and free-response points and this returns your weighted composite — the number the College Board builds before it decides anything, computed with its own published section weights.
What it will not do is print a predicted 1–5, and it is worth being precise about why. The College Board publishes no raw-score-to-AP-score conversion, for any subject. Each Course and Exam Description says only that the raw score "is converted into a composite AP score on a 1–5 scale" and prints no table. No released exam with a scoring worksheet is hosted on AP Central. The official AP Score Scale Table is qualitative — "5: extremely well qualified" — and carries no point ranges.
Every site that shows you "you got a 4" is estimating from a released exam that is years old, usually without saying which one. On a page a student might use to decide whether to retake an exam, that is not a number worth inventing.
How to use it
Pick your subject, then enter what you scored. Section weights differ far more than students expect: on AP Psychology the multiple choice is 67% of the exam, on AP English Language it is 45%. The Composite points column shows where your score actually came from.
The three AP History exams — APUSH, AP World and AP Euro — score four parts separately, because a document-based-question point and a short-answer point are not worth the same. Put your SAQ points in the free-response field and open More options for the DBQ and long essay.
Set Composite you are aiming for to your own target and the calculator says how many more multiple-choice questions, or free-response points, would get you there. That target is yours — it is not a published cut, because no published cut exists.
How to read the result
The composite is a percentage of the points available, weighted. Treat it as a measure of your paper, not as a score prediction.
Underneath it is the published distribution for your subject: what share of students earned each score in the most recent exam year. That is real, sourced and verifiable, and it answers the question behind the question — "is this a good paper for this exam?" — far better than a fabricated threshold would. AP Calculus BC and AP Environmental Science are both scored 1–5, but 46% of BC candidates scored a 5 and 13% of APES candidates did.
Caveats
Section weights and question counts describe the next administration and change when a course is redesigned; free-response maximums were counted from the 2025 Scoring Guidelines. Both are dated and linked below. AP exams are criterion-referenced rather than curved, so the point threshold moves with each year's paper — which is the reason a fixed conversion table would be wrong even if one were published.
Frequently asked questions
▸Why does this not give me a 1–5?
Because the College Board does not publish the conversion, and checking rather than assuming confirmed it: the Course and Exam Descriptions print no table, AP Central hosts no released exam with a scoring worksheet, and the official score scale table is qualitative. Any 1–5 here would be a guess wearing a citation.
▸Are AP exams curved?
No. The College Board states they are criterion-referenced, not norm-referenced: every student who meets the criteria for a score receives it, no matter how many students that is. The paper's difficulty varies between years, so the points needed vary with it.
▸Is there a penalty for guessing?
No. No current AP exam deducts points for a wrong answer, so every multiple-choice question should be answered. That is why this calculator asks only for questions correct.
▸Why is one free-response point worth more than one multiple-choice question?
Because sections are weighted, not summed. On AP Chemistry, 46 free-response points carry the same 50% as 60 multiple-choice questions, so a free-response point moves the composite 60/46 — about 1.3 times — as much. The table on this page shows the trade for your subject.
▸Which exam year does this describe?
Section weights and question counts come from each subject's current College Board exam page, free-response maximums from the 2025 Scoring Guidelines, and the distributions from the published 2026 results. Every one is linked in the sources.
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