AP English Language Free Response Questions

AP English Language Free Response

There are some amazing online resources for the AP English Language free response questions. Be sure to check out these guides and videos.

AP Thesis Statement Basics

This video from Coach Hall Writes covers some helpful tips on writing strong thesis statements for your essays. She first discusses what a defensible thesis is, then covers examples of evidence-based and reason-based theses.

AP Synthesis Essay Basics

These 5 short videos from Marco Learning will definitely help you when writing the synthesis essay on your AP Lang exam. They go over the 5 most important steps to follow when writing this type of essay.

AP Rhetorical Analysis Essay Basics

This short series of videos from Marco Learning covers the 5 essential steps for approaching the Rhetorical Analysis essay. Be sure to check these out, as they will definitely help you during the exam!

AP Argument Essay Basics

Finally, in another quick 5 video series, Marco Learning describes the steps you need to follow to write a great argumentative essay. You should definitely check these videos out!

Prior Year Free Response Questions

These AP English Language free response questions were released by the College Board to help students prepare for this portion of the test. All questions from 2023 to 2025, along with sample responses and scoring guidelines.

Fiveable Essay Tips

This is an amazing article from Fiveable that covers how to approach rhetorical essays to score well. Included in the article there are helpful videos embedded.This is a great place to start before doing some practice essays!

How to Write an Argument Essay

This is a great article from College Transitions to review before writing your argumentative essay. It goes over some useful tips on how to provide quality evidence and commentary to score high. It also covers how the essay is graded.

Argumentation Cheat Sheet

Great tips and strategies for the argument essay boiled down to a 2 page review sheet. Covers topic sentences and lays out 5 basic approaches that you can take with this type of essay.

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