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    AP Psychology

    The AP Psychology exam is 2 hours 40 minutes and fully digital: 75 multiple-choice questions worth 67% of your score, and 2 free-response questions worth 33% — the Article Analysis Question (AAQ) and the Evidence-Based Question (EBQ). The redesigned course is 5 units, and both sections test research methods and data interpretation alongside the psychology itself.

    Nuros gives you the whole of AP Psychology: a note for every topic across the 5 units, and AAQ and EBQ practice marked against the rubric rows rather than for keywords — so you find out whether you actually identified the research design before the exam does.

    Free to start · No credit card · 5 units · 35 topics

    Exam overview

    The AP Psychology exam format

    Exam length

    2 hours 40 minutes

    2027 exam date

    Fri, May 14, 2027

    Course size

    5 units

    Fully digital — both sections are completed in College Board's Bluebook app.

    Section I — Multiple choice

    75 questions · 1hr 30min · 67% of score

    Applying perspectives, theories and research findings; evaluating research methods and study designs; reading tables, graphs and charts.

    Section II — Free response

    2 questions · 1hr 10min · 33% of score

    The Article Analysis Question (AAQ), based on a piece of research, and the Evidence-Based Question (EBQ), which asks you to build an argument from provided sources.

    Exam format, timings and date from College Board's official AP Psychology exam page, last checked September 17, 2026. Nuros is not affiliated with or endorsed by College Board. Always confirm exam-day details with your AP coordinator.

    Course content

    What the Nuros AP Psychology course covers

    5 units and 35 topics, each written as a structured note with practice attached — not a summary of the syllabus.

    1. Biological Bases of Behavior6 topics
    2. Cognition8 topics
    3. Development and Learning9 topics
    4. Social Psychology and Personality7 topics
    5. Mental and Physical Health5 topics
    Read the free AP Psychology notes, unit by unit
    How Nuros helps

    Study AP Psych in a loop, not a straight line

    1. Learn it

    A structured note for every topic in the course, with worked examples and diagrams rather than a wall of bullet points.

    2. Test it

    Unit quizzes and full-length practice exams in the real paper format, with written answers marked against the rubric rows rather than checked for a keyword.

    3. See the gaps

    Every attempt updates a mastery score per concept, so the feedback names the concept costing you marks instead of handing you a percentage.

    4. Close them

    ARC — the Adaptive Review Cycle — re-explains the weak concepts and brings them back on a spaced schedule, with fresh questions, until they hold.

    Common questions

    AP Psychology questions students ask

    The two free-response questions on the redesigned exam. The Article Analysis Question gives you a research study to evaluate; the Evidence-Based Question gives you sources and asks you to argue a position from them. Together they are 33% of your score.

    Five: Biological Bases of Behavior, Cognition, Development and Learning, Social Psychology and Personality, and Mental and Physical Health.

    It is one of the shorter courses, but the redesigned exam is heavier on research methods and data than students expect — a large share of questions ask you to evaluate a study design or read a graph rather than recall a definition.

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