AP® US History

Welcome to Albert's AP® US History course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's AP® US History 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® US History 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 2020 AP® US History Course and Exam Description into the following nine periods:

In addition to our practice guide, AP® US History contains 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 History exam.

On the Free Response guide, each unit in AP® US History 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 History course are aligned to Learning Objectives, Key Concepts, Historical Thinking Skills, and Reasoning Processes 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 History course also includes content tags. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as 1890-1945 or cold-war. 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 guide level.

AP® US History 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.

In the FRQ section of the exam, you have the option to choose one of the questions you answer in both the short answer and free-response sections.

The College Board website offers access to many of the old exam questions. Take a look at these past AP® US History exams.

The AP® US History Poster provides a detailed overview of this year's exam.

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