AP® English Language

Welcome to Albert's AP® English Language and Composition course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's AP® English Language and Composition course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the College Board.

Albert's AP® English Language and Composition multiple choice questions (located in the Practice tab) and free response questions (located in the Free Response tab) are organized in accordance with the College Board’s AP® English Language and Composition Course and Exam Description guidance on selecting nonfiction readings:

Each theme contains a range of nonfiction readings. For example, here are some topics within Memoirs and Biographies.

In addition to our practice guide, AP® English Language and Composition includes Unit Assessments and Full-Length Practice Exams that include questions unique from those in our practice guide. Both assessment styles allow students to practice and prepare for the experience of taking the AP® English Language and Composition exam.

AP® English Language and Composition includes Synthesis, General Argument, and Rhetorical Analysis Free Response Questions that are fully aligned to the experience of taking the AP® English Language and Composition exam.

All questions in Albert’s AP® English Language and Composition course are aligned to the Skills, Big Ideas, and Enduring Understandings from the Course and Exam Description.

This standards alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can search for any standard from the CED to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.

In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Albert’s AP® English Language and Composition includes skill, author, and passage title tags. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as argument, david-foster-wallace, or give-me-liberty. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guidelevel.

AP® English Language and Composition includes all of the questions students will find on the actual AP® exam. This provides meaningful practice of important skills and content to prepare students to excel in their course and on their exam.

All AP Exams take place the first two weeks of May. You can find the AP Exam schedule here.

The format of the AP® English Language and Composition exam is detailed in the table below:

The AP® English Language and Composition poster provides a detailed overview of this year's exam.

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