AP Environmental Science

Advanced Placement Environmental Science (AP Environmental Science, APES, AP Enviro, AP Environmental, AP Environment, or AP Envi. Sci.) is a course offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program to high school students interested in the environmental and natural sciences. This course is designed to provide students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies necessary to comprehend the relationships abundant within the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems, to evaluate relative risks associated with these identified problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing similar problems facing the global environment.[1] The percentage of students scoring a grade of "5" was only 7.4% in the 2016 testing administration. It remains one of the lowest "5" scoring AP Exams to this date right under AP Art History, AP English Literature & Composition, AP English Language & Composition, and AP World History. The AP Environmental Science exam was first administered in 1998.

Topics covered

Topics covered in AP Environmental Science include:

Topic Percent
Earth Systems and Resources 10–15%
The Living World 10–15%
Population 10–15%
Land and Water use 10–15%
Energy Resources and Consumption 10–15%
Pollution 25–30%
Global Change 10–15%

The exam

  • Section I: Multiple Choice (100 questions, 90 minutes).
  • Section II: Free-Response (one data-set question, one document-based question, and two synthesis and evaluation questions, 90 minutes).

Grade distribution

The exam was first held in 1998. Grade distributions since 2009 were:

Year Score percentages
54321MeanNumber of Students
2009[2]10.4%20.7%18.9%18.5%31.5%2.673,575
2010[3]10.4%22.6%17.0%18.1%32.0%2.6186,650
2011[4]8.9%24.8%15.6%24.9%25.8%2.6698,959
2012[5]8.9%24.9%16.6%24.3%25.3%2.68108,839
2013[6]8.0%23.4%16.8%25.4%26.5%2.61118,288
2014[7]8.3%23.6%15.3%25.5%27.2%2.6130,321
2015[8]7.5%24.1%15.2%25.5%27.7%2.59138,703
2016[9]7.6%23.2%14.8%25.8%28.6%2.55149,096
2017[10]9.5%24.5%15.4%24.5%26.2%2.67159,578
2018[11] 8.5% 23.9% 15.1% 26.1% 26.4%

References

  1. ↑ Barlaz, Dora; Freudenrich, Craig; Gardner, Jane (2011). AP Environmental Science 2011. New York, New York: Kaplan Publishing. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_EnvSci_GradeDistributions.pdf 2009 Grade Distribution
  3. ↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2010_EnvSci_Score_Dist.pdf 2010 Grade Distribution
  4. ↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2011_Env_Sci_Score_Dist.pdf 2011 Grade Distribution
  5. ↑ The College Board. "AP Environmental Science Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  6. ↑ http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_enviro_sci_ScoringDist.pdf 2013 Grade Distribution
  7. ↑ http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2014/STUDENT-SCORE-DISTRIBUTIONS-2014.pdf 2014 Student Score Distributions
  8. ↑ https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2015/Program-Summary-Report-2015.pdf
  9. ↑ "Student Score Distributions AP Exams - May 2016".
  10. ↑ "AP Student Score Distributions – The College Board". apscore.collegeboard.org.
  11. ↑ Total Registration. "2018 AP Exam Score Distributions". Retrieved 2018-06-12.
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