AP® Chemistry Beta

Score calculator

Enter how many multiple-choice questions you got right and your points on each free-response question, from a practice exam or a released one you scored with its rubric. You get an estimated score from 1 to 5.

How the estimate works

The exam has two sections worth half the score each: 60 multiple-choice questions, and 7 free-response questions worth 46 points (three long questions at 10 points, four short at 4). So the calculator turns each section into a score out of 50 and adds them:

composite = 50 × (multiple-choice right ÷ 60) + 50 × (free-response points ÷ 46)

A composite of 72 or more is shown as a 5, 58 or more as a 4, 42 or more as a 3, 27 or more as a 2, and anything lower as a 1. There is no penalty for a wrong multiple-choice answer, so a blank and a wrong answer count the same.

This is an estimate, not a predicted score. The College Board sets the real cut-offs after each exam, from how that year's students did, and does not publish them for recent years. These are the cut-offs reported for the 2014 exam, the first in today's format and also weighted half and half out of 100; most score calculators use the same numbers. Recent exams have given more 5s (about 15-18% of students) than 2014 did (about 10%), so the real line for a 5 may now be a little lower. Use the estimate to see which section has the most room to grow.

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