The AP Physics exams: content, depth, and sample test items.*

Teams of experts drawn from physics education research, college faculty, and master high school faculty spent many hundreds of person-hours developing curriculum frameworks with learning objectives for AP Physics 1 and 2, and crafting aligned AP exams. In this talk, exam development and construction will be described with an emphasis on the differences between AP Physics 1, 2, C – Mechanics, and C- Electricity & Magnetism. Participants will be provided with examples of AP exam questions to review. Differences in question type and style will be examined.   Results of student performance on some of the novel free response questions on the AP Physics 1 and 2 exams (laboratory design, qualitative/quantitative translation and paragraph-length response) will be shared and discussed.