AP Environmental Science
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Advanced Placement Environmental Science (AP Environmental Science, AP Enviro, AP Environmental, AP EnviSci, or APES) 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. The class is noted to be one of the "easier" AP classes offered in highschool; however, the percentage of students scoring a grade of "5" was only 10.4% in the 2009 testing administration. It remains one of the lowest "5" scoring AP Exams to this date right under AP Art History.
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
In the 2009 administration, 73,576 students took the AP environmental science exam worldwide. The mean score was a 2.6.
The grade distribution for 2009 was:[1]
| Score | Percent |
|---|---|
| 5 | 10.4% |
| 4 | 20.7% |
| 3 | 18.9% |
| 2 | 18.5% |
| 1 | 31.5% |
| 3 or Higher | 50% |
| Mean Grade | 2.6 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.38 |