Sample Questions & Scoring Guidelines
The AP Chemistry Exam covers a full-year introductory college course in chemistry with laboratory. The multiple-choice questions in Section I cover the breadth of the curriculum. Section II, the free-response part of the exam, includes two quantitative problems, one question on writing chemical reactions and predicting products, and three essays.
You can find additional free-response questions and scoring guidelines on AP Central, along with grade distributions and examples of actual students' responses and commentary that explains why the responses received the scores they did.
Multiple-Choice Questions
For sample multiple-choice questions, refer to the Course Description
AP Chemistry Course Description (.pdf/2.3M)
Free-Response Questions
- 2012 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/625K)
- 2011 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/818K)
- 2011 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/721K)
- 2010 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/634K)
- 2010 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/713K)
- 2009 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/900K)
- 2009 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/1.15MB)
- 2008 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/421K)
- 2008 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/469K)
- 2007 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/331K)
- 2007 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/332K)
- 2006 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/305K)
- 2006 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/294K)
- 2005 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/318K)
- 2005 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/380K)
- 2004 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/252K)
- 2004 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/322K)
- 2003 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/239K)
- 2003 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/341K)
- 2002 Free-Response Questions (.pdf/198K)
- 2002 Form B Free-Response Questions (.pdf/217K)
Scoring Guidelines
2011 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/213K)
2011 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/187K)
2010 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/280K)
2010 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/212K)
2009 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/136K)
2009 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/206K)
2008 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/190K)
2008 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/296K)
2007 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/146K)
2007 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/217K)
2006 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/171K)
2006 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/172K)
2005 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/270K)
2005 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/306K)
2004 Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/755K)
2004 Form B Scoring Guidelines (.pdf/759K)
