Welcome to our comprehensive AP Psychology practice test directory. We have links to all the best free resources that will help you ace your AP Psych exam. Check out our listing of the best advanced placement practice exams. If you are looking for AP Psychology notes, tests, multiple choice questions, flash cards, or free response questions, we link to all the best review information.
AP Psychology Practice Exams:
1994 and 1999 Released Exams. These are the actual AP Psych exams that have been released by the College Board. Includes multiple choice with answer key and free response with scoring guidelines.
Multiple Choices Quizzes. Huge collection of multiple choice questions divided by topics. You will definitely want to check these out.
AP Psychology Practice Exam 1 and Practice Exam 2. These are awesome full-length practice exams from Education.com. Includes answers with great explanations for both the multiple choice and the free response questions.
Intro to Psychology Chapter Tests. Great resources from the 12th edition of Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior by Coon and Mitterer. For each of the 18 chapters there is a multiple choice quiz, a true/false quiz, flashcards, and a glossary.
Course Notes Practice Quizzes. This site has 9 multiple choice practice tests.
Textbook Resources. Official site for 8th editon of Psychology: Themes and Variations by Weiten. Tutorial quizzes, glossarys, and flashcards for each of the 16 chapters.
AP Psychology Notes:
Crib Notes. There are six solid pages of AP Psych notes in this MS Word document. Great for last minute cramming.
Outlines. Course Notes outlines for the 6th and 7th editions of the Myers textbook as well as the 7th edition of the Weiten text.
Review Worksheet. Nice review of important people in psychological science.
AP Psychology Free-Response:
How to write the AP Psychology Essay. This document has some awesome tips for writing your free response answers. Tells you what to include, what to avoid, and even provides a sample frq with strategies for answering it.
Actual FRQ’s from 1994 to 2009. Great for reviewing past questions to get familiar with the types of questions you will see.
Actual FRQ’s from 1999 to 2012. Information on the questions, scoring guidelines, performance Q&A, scoring statistics, sample responses and overall grade distribution.
AP Psychology Flashcards:
Practice Test Questions. Eighty flashcards to practice key terms.
Famous Psychologists. Flashcards to practice the names and accomplishments of 75 famous psychologists.
Best AP Psych Study Guides:
Barron’s AP Psychology. This excellent book has been the top-selling AP Psychology study guide for years. Each topic is thoroughly covered with a review quiz after each chapter. Three full-length practice exams are also included, complete with answers and explanations.
AP Psychology Crash Course. This is the other AP Pyschology book that I strongly recommend. Very targeted explanations for each topic covered on the exam. Great test taking strategies and an online practice exam as well.
About the exam:
This course focuses on the systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Psychological principles, facts, and phenomena are covered for each of the major fields of psychology. The primary topics covered are:
1.) History & Approaches
2.) Research Methods
3.) Biological Bases of Behavior
4.) Sensation & Perception
5.) States of Consciousness
6.) Learning
7.) Cognition
8.) Motivation & Emotion
9.) Developmental Psychology
10.) Personality
11.) Testing & Individual Differences
12.) Abnormal Behavior
13.) Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
14.) Social Psychology
The AP Psychology Exam format is:
Multiple-Choice Section: Two-thirds of exam grade.
-100 questions (70 minutes)
Free-Response Section: One-third of exam grade.
-2 questions (50 minutes)
When is the AP Psychology Exam?
The AP Psychology Exam date for the 2012/2013 school year is Monday, May 6th 2013 at 12 p.m. This test is offered once per year.