The 2025 AP Research scores:
5: 15%; 4: 28%; 3: 46%; 2: 10%; 1: 2%
Nearly 44,000 students submitted academic papers this year, up from 36,000 last year.
Here’s the percentage of this year’s academic papers that received the various scores on the 10-point scale the faculty use to score these sustained projects:
3%: 10 points
7%: 9 points
13%: 8 points
24%: 7 points
35%: 6 points
10%: 5 points
6%: 4 points
1%: 2 points
1%: 0-1 points
Animal training, an interactive moss wall, team collaboration based on birth order -- the topics students chose for their sustained research were wide ranging and frequently very interesting to the faculty who scored the academic papers.
All subjects’ AP score distributions for 2025 will be posted here when available: https://t.co/OrkaQhPZYO
306 students, out of ~29,000 AP Research students worldwide, earned all 80 of 80 points possible across their AP Research academic paper, presentation, and oral defense.
So proud of the team effort today! Boys team finishes as sectional champions! Our second ever and first since 2006! Girls team finishes in third! This out of 16 teams. Tracking 18 swimmers qualifying on to the district meet at CSU! Go Cards!
Good luck to the Mentor ladies swimming at the State Championship Meet today! Competing are Juliana Slaninka, Erin Farmer, Annie Berrow, and Mallory Dondorfer! We are so proud of you! Let’s go Cards!