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The 2025 AP US History Exam scores:
5: 14%; 4: 36%; 3: 23%; 2: 19%; 1: 8%.
Congrats to this year’s cohort of AP US History teachers and students; common item equating shows that this year’s students developed stronger content knowledge and skills than last year’s, raising the percentage of 4s and 5s by 4%. In parallel, APUSH teachers provided 25,000 more students than in 2024 with this opportunity to learn at an advanced level, making AP US History the course with the largest increase in performance and participation of any subject so far this year.
Multiple-Choice Questions:
AP US History students, as is often the case, developed a strong understanding of Period 2, 1607-1754; 36% of students answered all questions about this historical period accurately.
The lowest mean score in the multiple-choice section was on Period 9 questions (1980 to present). 10% of students answered each such question correctly.
Short Answer Questions:
https://t.co/sODZgnQbzx
This commentary will focus on the Set 1 questions, since that was the version taken by most students.
The most challenging of all this year’s AP US History free-response questions was the first short answer question, the comparison of secondary sources about early American democracy. 15% of students earned all points possible on it.
Students scored highest on the third short answer question, about British North America and the Seven Years’ War. 33% of students earned all points possible here.
Document-Based Question:
The DBQ on the US economy from 1932 to 1980: 79% of students earned the thesis point; 62% earned the contextualization point; 39% earned 1 evidence point and 47% earned 2 evidence points; 47% earned the evidence-beyond-the-documents point; 39% earned the analysis and reasoning: sourcing point, and 15% earned the analysis and reasoning: complex understanding point.
Long Essay Questions:
Q2: Native American societies’ adaptations from 1500-1754. 10% of students earned all 6 points possible.
Q3: Reform movements’ responses to industrialization from 1820-1900. 12% of students earned all 6 points possible.
Q4: US foreign policy from 1890-1930. 22% of students earned all 6 points possible.
All subjects’ AP score distributions for 2025 will be posted here when available: https://t.co/xZ0bZPEbT7
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The single lowest scoring component of this year’s APUSH exam (Set 1) was Short Answer #1 (origins of the 19th century women’s rights movement); avg score was 44%. SAQs that ask students to compare two different historians’ views are often the most challenging.
AP US History MC questions: such impressive scores here, the strongest I’ve seen in any subject this year so far, but esp on questions re: 1754-1800 (Unit 3), in which 39% of APUSH students answered every question right, & on questions on content from 1945 - present (Units 8-9).
AP US History Long Essays: Some very good essays on each of these three topics. Out of 6 points possible: 22% earned 5+ points on Q2; 34% earned 5+ points on Q3; and 38% earned 5+ points on Q4. https://t.co/c7wZIn3LJR