AP® US Government

Welcome to Albert's AP® US Government and Politics course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's AP® US Government and Politics 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® US Government and Politics 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 2023 AP® US Government and Politics Course and Exam Description into the following five units:

In addition to our practice guide, AP® US Government and Politics includes Unit assessments that include multiple choice questions unique from those on our practice guide and FRQs unique from those on the FRQ guide. The course also includes two full-length practice exams, allowing students to practice and prepare for the experience of taking the AP® US Government and Politics exam.

On the Free Response guide, each unit in AP® US Government and Politics contains several FRQs of each type found on the AP® Exam itself, providing multiple opportunities to practice important writing and source analysis skills.

All questions in Albert’s AP® US Government and Politics course are aligned to the Learning Objectives, Essential Knowledge, and Course Skills 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® US Government and Politics includes content tags. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as interest-groups or engel-v-vitale. 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.

Albert's AP® US Government and Politics course 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:

Your score for multiple choice is based on how many questions you answer correctly. You do not lose any points for getting questions wrong or for leaving questions blank.

The College Board website offers access to many of the old exams. Take a look at these past AP® US Government and Politics exams.

The AP® US Government and Politics Poster provides a detailed overview of this year's exam!

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