AP Art History

Digital Practice and Testing Information

Updated April 8

Digital Practice Now Available

Starting April 8, you can try out the test-day experience, by answering sample questions in the digital testing application. See the Digital Practice page for general information about practice options.

AP Art History students will have two options to take sample questions in the digital testing application. Both provide approximately the same time limit per question as the full exam.

• Digital Practice has a shortened multiple-choice section (17 questions, 15 minutes–approximately the same time per question as the full exam), a shortened break of 5 minutes, and a full-length free-response section (6 questions, 2 hours).
• The App Demo is an even shorter subset of the questions in Digital Practice–5 multiple-choice questions, a 2-minute break, and 1 free-response question.

We highly recommend you take the Digital Practice, and strongly advise that if you can’t take the Digital Practice, at least take the App Demo. Both can be taken multiple times, and can be accessed directly in the digital testing application. You can access your answers and solution materials (MCQ answer key, FRQ scoring guidelines) for the Digital Practice. Note: Taking the App Demo after completing Digital Practice may override your answers from Digital Practice.

Taking the Digital Exam

In addition to differences in the order and type of questions as noted below, you should be aware of some aspects of testing digitally that you’ll encounter–in the Digital Practice and on exam day:

• As a reminder:
  • You will answer all multiple-choice questions and type all free-response answers directly in the digital exam application. Scratch paper is permitted for notes or planning, but you cannot handwrite or otherwise upload responses. 
  • You cannot go back to questions they’ve already answered, and cannot skip ahead. 
• Unlike on the paper and pencil exam, individual parts of free-response questions 2-6 will be shown as an ordered list. You will answer all the parts of each free-response question in a single text box, and should answer in essay form as they would on the pencil and paper exam. Students will see examples of the question format and answering interface when they answer digital practice questions in the app.
• Exam directions and section-specific directions will not be read by a proctor–they’ll appear entirely in the application. You’ll see them at the beginning of each section, and can access them at any time during the exam. Please note that the exam timer starts when the directions appear. While you should read the directions, be aware that the timer will be running while you do so. You can view the full text of the exam and section directions in advance of the exam.