AP Environmental Science

This article is part of the Advanced Placement series.
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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 grade distributions since 2009 were:

Year	Score percentages
Year	5	4	3	2	1	Mean	Number of Students
2009^[2]	10.4%	20.7%	18.9%	18.5%	31.5%	2.6	73,575
2010^[3]	10.4%	22.6%	17.0%	18.1%	32.0%	2.61	86,650
2011^[4]	8.9%	24.8%	15.6%	24.9%	25.8%	2.66	98,959
2012^[5]	8.9%	24.9%	16.6%	24.3%	25.3%	2.68	108,839
2013^[6]	8.0%	23.4%	16.8%	25.4%	26.5%	2.61	118,288
2014^[7]	8.3%	23.6%	15.3%	25.5%	27.2%	2.6	130,321
2015^[8]	7.5%	24.1%	15.2%	25.5%	27.7%	2.59	138,703
2016^[9]	7.4%	23%	14.8%	26%	28.8%	2.55	149,096
2017^[10]	9.4%	24.5%	15.5%	24.6%	26%

References

↑ Barlaz, Dora; Freudenrich, Craig; Gardner, Jane (2011). AP Environmental Science 2011. New York, New York: Kaplan Publishing. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_EnvSci_GradeDistributions.pdf 2009 Grade Distribution
↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2010_EnvSci_Score_Dist.pdf 2010 Grade Distribution
↑ http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2011_Env_Sci_Score_Dist.pdf 2011 Grade Distribution
↑ The College Board. "AP Environmental Science Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved 7 May 2013.
↑ http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_enviro_sci_ScoringDist.pdf 2013 Grade Distribution
↑ http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2014/STUDENT-SCORE-DISTRIBUTIONS-2014.pdf 2014 Student Score Distributions
↑ https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2015/Program-Summary-Report-2015.pdf
↑ (PDF) https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2016/Student-Score-Distributions-2016.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ https://apscore.collegeboard.org/scores/about-ap-scores/score-distributions//. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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