AP Comparative Government FRQ

There are some excellent resources available for the AP Comparative Government free response questions. Make sure you review the prior year questions along with the exam strategy guides and practice questions.

Prior Year Questions

The College Board has posted actual AP Comparative Government free response questions from previous exams. Questions and scoring guidelines from 1999 to 2018, with sample responses and score distributions.

Exam Strategies

Be sure to review this before your exam. Useful tips and strategies for your free response questions and also a few tips for the multiple choice section.

More Exam Tips

Here are some additional words of advice on taking the exam. Includes a really useful list of the most common action verbs used in prior year free response questions.

Practice FRQ 1–5

Here you can find 5 sets of AP Comparative free response questions. These challenging practice questions cover a wide range of topics. Studying these and writing out answers is a great way to prepare for your exam.

Practice FRQ 6–10

Five more sets of FRQ practice. You should definitely review these as part of your test prep.