AP® English Literature

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

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's AP® English Literature and Composition prep course, including how it is organized, what standards it is aligned to, 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 Literature 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 Literature and Composition Course and Exam Description guidance on selecting texts:

Each theme contains a range of texts. For example, here are some topics within Prose.

In addition to our practice guide, AP® English Literature 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 Literature and Composition exam.

AP® English Literature and Composition includes Poetry Analysis, Prose Fiction Analysis, and Literary Argument Free Response Questions that are fully aligned to the experience of taking the AP® English Literature and Composition exam.

All questions in Albert’s AP® English Literature 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 Literature and Composition includes skill, author, and passage title tags. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as inference, joseph-conrad, or a-dolls-house. 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 Literature 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 exam is detailed in the table below:

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

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