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The AP Calculus AB paper is a three hour 15 minute long exam and consists of 2 sections. There is a 10 minute break in between sections. The exam format is as follows:

Section I multiple choice - 45 questions | 105 minutes | worth 50% of the exam score

Part A: 30 questions, 60 minutes (non calculator)

Part B: 15 questions, 45 minutes (calculator)

Section II free response - 6 questions | 90 minutes | worth 50% of the exam score

Part A: 2 problems, 30 minutes (calculator)

Part B: 4 problems, 1 hours (non calculator)

Note: The exam has recently had small changes made to its format. Prior, Part A of the multiple-choice section had 28 questions, and Part B had 17 questions.

You must use a graphing calculator (TI-84 graphing calculator or TI-Nspire, is recommended) for Part B of the multiple-choice section and Part A of the free-response section.

Due to Covid the 2020 exam was an open book/open note online exam based entirely on free-response questions and was onty 45 minutes long. Unusually, there were no multiple choice questions.

For worksheet by topic organised by difficulty level and containing every single type of question that could come up for any particular click AP Calculus worksheets by topic. The worksheets have very detailed step by step solutions.

AB Formula SheetPDF
AB SyllabusPDF

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