Score calculator
Enter your multiple-choice and free-response results to get an estimated score from 1 to 5.
How the estimate works
Use the questions you got right and the points on each free-response question from a practice exam, or from a released one you scored with its rubric.
The exam has two sections worth half the score each: 42 multiple-choice questions, and 4 free-response questions worth 40 points (Mathematical Routines 10, Translation Between Representations 12, Experimental Design and Analysis 10, Qualitative/Quantitative Translation 8). So the calculator turns each section into a score out of 50 and adds them:
composite = 50 × (multiple-choice right ÷ 42) + 50 × (free-response points ÷ 40)
A composite of 70 or more is shown as a 5, 55 or more as a 4, 41 or more as a 3, 31 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.
These cut-offs are estimates, not official. The College Board sets the real cut-offs after each exam, from how that year's students did, and has published none for the current physics exam. We chose ours so that, with the average free-response scores the College Board published for 2025, they give about the share of 5s (19 to 20%), 4s or better (about 44%) and 3s or better (about 68%) reported for 2025 and 2026. Treat a result within about 5 points of a cut-off as either score. Use the estimate to see which section has the most room to grow.
Raise your score
- Full practice exams in the real format, with this estimate at the end.
- The justification trainer for the claim-and-reasoning points free response is built on.
- The equations sheet, explained, and free unit practice tests.