How many AP subjects should I take?

Three or four done properly beats six done thinly, for admissions and for scores. The binding constraint is free-response practice time, not content coverage.

Which subjects do you teach?

Calculus AB and BC, Physics 1 and the Physics C papers, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, Micro and Macroeconomics, US and World History, Psychology, and the language exams. If yours is not listed, ask — the answer depends on the teacher's availability rather than on policy.

Can one package cover several subjects?

Yes, and it usually should. A prepaid twenty-lesson package can be split across subjects — seven to Calculus, six to Chemistry, seven to Microeconomics — and rebalanced as the year goes on.

Do AP scores actually give credit?

At many universities, yes, though what a 3, 4 or 5 is worth varies by institution and subject, and some give placement rather than credit. Check your shortlist's published policy; the differences are larger than people expect.

Is a group course available?

Yes: 75 hours per subject in classes of at most six, through the full CED and then past papers. The 2026–27 groups are full, so a place booked now is for 2027–28. Most AP students still take one-to-one, because they need two or three subjects rather than one.

September, alongside the school course, is when the help is cheapest and most effective. Starting in February is common and works, but it turns preparation into triage.

AP exam preparation, live online

AP exams are graded 1 to 5 against a published course and exam description, and the free-response sections are marked to a rubric that says exactly where each point comes from. Students who have read that rubric write differently. Preparation here works from the current CED for your subject rather than from a general study guide, and free-response practice is marked the way the College Board marks it.

Discuss AP preparation View lesson prices

Exam format

What the AP actually looks like

The structure, the timing and the scoring, stated plainly — before anything about a course.

Length: Typically 2 to 3 hours per subject exam
Questions: Multiple choice plus free response, weighting varying by subject
Scored: 1–5, with 3 usually the threshold for credit

Section I — multiple choice

Machine-marked, and increasingly built around a stimulus: a source, a graph, an experiment. The questions test whether you can use the material, not whether you can recall the unit it came from.

Section II — free response

Marked by trained readers against published scoring guidelines that state exactly where each point comes from. Students who have read those guidelines write visibly differently from students who have not.

The course and exam description

Every subject has a published CED setting the units, the weightings and the skills. It is the syllabus the exam is written from, and preparation that works from a general study guide instead is preparing for an approximation.

Scores are 1 to 5. What a 3, 4 or 5 is worth differs by university and by subject, and some departments give placement rather than credit — worth checking before deciding how many to sit.
The exams are digital in Bluebook for a growing list of subjects, so the interface is part of the preparation for those.
New subjects are arriving: Business with Personal Finance and Cybersecurity from 2026–27, with Networking following.

Before you start

Is AP preparation right for you?

Who it suits. Students needing preparation in a named AP subject, using the relevant course content and exam requirements.

When to check another option. An unspecified package covering every AP subject. Tell us the subject, current topics and exam date so the teaching scope can be confirmed.

Why it matters

What a AP score is for

AP scores do two things at once, and applicants often plan for only one. They are read as evidence that you have taken the hardest available course and done well in it, which matters at selective universities regardless of credit. And they convert into actual credit or placement at many institutions, which can shorten a degree or free a semester. For an international applicant they also solve a specific problem: an AP score is a number an American admissions office knows how to read, whatever your school's grading looks like.

Coverage

What the preparation covers

The ground a course goes over. A group course takes it in its published order; for one-to-one lessons, how much of it you need and in what order is what the diagnostic decides.

The current course and exam description for your subject, unit by unit
Multiple-choice technique, including the questions built around a stimulus
Free-response answers marked against the published scoring guidelines
Calculus AB and BC, Physics 1 and C, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science
Micro and Macroeconomics, US and World History, Psychology, and the language exams

Where marks go

Where candidates lose marks on the AP

Not a list of study tips. These are the specific ways this particular test takes marks off people who know the material.

Writing free response without the scoring guidelines

Each point in a free-response rubric comes from something specific — a named process, a justification, a correctly labelled axis. Students who write good prose without hitting those points score below students who write plainly and hit them.

Preparing from a study guide rather than the CED

Commercial guides lag syllabus revisions and smooth over the unit weightings. The course and exam description is published, current and specific about what is examinable — and it is free.

Skipping the stimulus

Stimulus-based multiple choice gives you a source and asks a question about it. Answering from subject knowledge without reading the source is how well-prepared students lose marks on questions they knew.

Ignoring the calculator and formula policies

They differ by subject and by section, and they change. Discovering in the exam that a section is calculator-free, or that a formula you memorised is on the sheet, is a preventable cost.

Taking too many subjects at once

Three well-prepared APs read better than five thin ones and cost less in May. The limit is usually the free-response practice, which is the part that takes time and the part students cut first.

Leaving the digital format until the week before

For subjects that have moved to Bluebook, the interface, the annotation tools and the way free response is entered are all things to have met before the day.

Lesson format

Group course, or one-to-one

Group · 75 hours

Fifty 90-minute lessons per subject, 75 hours: forty through the course and exam description, two a week on the subject's fixed slots, then ten on past papers, one a week. Classes hold at most six, and free-response work is marked against the scoring guidelines from the first unit rather than the last month. Every 2026–27 group is full, so a place booked now is in the 2027–28 groups for the May 2028 exams.

One-to-one

One-to-one lessons are the usual route for AP, because most students need two or three subjects rather than one. A prepaid package can be split across them — twenty lessons might go seven to Calculus, six to Chemistry and seven to Microeconomics.

Group course

How the AP group course runs

A fixed timetable, in Türkiye time (UTC+3). The dates and lessons below are the ones the classes are actually taught to.

Lessons: 90 minutes each
Days and times: Two fixed weekly slots per subject
Length: About 30 weeks · 75 hours
Class size: Up to 24 students per intake, taught by level in classes of at most 6

Week by week

Topic phase: 40 lessons of 90 minutes over 20 weeks, two a week on the subject's own fixed slots.
Past-paper phase: 10 lessons, one a week, on questions from released exams.

What the lessons cover

The course and exam description, unit by unit · 40 lessons
Past-paper lessons · 10 lessons

Each subject is its own class, with its own weekly slots — listed below.

Weekly slots for each AP subject (26)

AP group subjects and their weekly lesson slots, Türkiye time
Subject	Topic lessons	Past papers
AP African American Studies	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP Biology	Saturday 14:30–16:00 and Sunday 14:30–16:00	Sunday 14:30–16:00
AP Business with Personal Finance	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP Calculus AB	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP Calculus BC	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP Chemistry	Monday 17:30–19:00 and Wednesday 17:30–19:00	Monday 17:30–19:00
AP Comparative Government and Politics	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP Computer Science A	Monday 17:30–19:00 and Wednesday 17:30–19:00	Monday 17:30–19:00
AP Cybersecurity	Monday 19:00–20:30 and Wednesday 19:00–20:30	Monday 19:00–20:30
AP English Language and Composition	Tuesday 18:00–19:30 and Thursday 18:00–19:30	Tuesday 18:00–19:30
AP English Literature and Composition	Tuesday 18:00–19:30 and Thursday 18:00–19:30	Tuesday 18:00–19:30
AP Environmental Science	Saturday 16:00–17:30 and Sunday 16:00–17:30	Sunday 16:00–17:30
AP European History	Saturday 14:30–16:00 and Sunday 14:30–16:00	Saturday 14:30–16:00
AP Human Geography	Tuesday 17:30–19:00 and Thursday 17:30–19:00	Tuesday 17:30–19:00
AP Macroeconomics	Saturday 17:30–19:00 and Sunday 17:30–19:00	Saturday 17:30–19:00
AP Microeconomics	Saturday 16:00–17:30 and Sunday 16:00–17:30	Saturday 16:00–17:30
AP Physics 1	Saturday 16:00–17:30 and Sunday 16:00–17:30	Sunday 16:00–17:30
AP Physics 2	Saturday 10:30–12:00 and Sunday 10:30–12:00	Saturday 10:30–12:00
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism	Saturday 12:00–13:30 and Sunday 12:00–13:30	Sunday 12:00–13:30
AP Physics C: Mechanics	Saturday 14:30–16:00 and Sunday 14:30–16:00	Sunday 14:30–16:00
AP Precalculus	Saturday 17:30–19:00 and Sunday 17:30–19:00	Sunday 17:30–19:00
AP Psychology	Saturday 09:00–10:30 and Sunday 09:00–10:30	Saturday 09:00–10:30
AP Statistics	Saturday 19:00–20:30 and Sunday 19:00–20:30	Saturday 19:00–20:30
AP United States Government and Politics	Monday 17:30–19:00 and Wednesday 17:30–19:00	Monday 17:30–19:00
AP United States History	Saturday 10:30–12:00 and Sunday 10:30–12:00	Saturday 10:30–12:00
AP World History: Modern	Saturday 12:00–13:30 and Sunday 12:00–13:30	Saturday 12:00–13:30

What the course includes

10 AP practice exams for your subject
Every lesson recorded, to rewatch for 14 days
A study plan written for you by TestPrep
Homework, with your progress tracked from lesson to lesson
Questions answered within 24 hours
Regular progress reports for parents
All course materials, at no extra cost

The practice exams open on your account once they are published, and never before the first week of the course is over.

Every one of our 2026–27 AP groups is full. A place booked now is in the 2027–28 groups, which prepare for the May 2028 exams; their start dates are published on 1 November, and you choose yours then.

Book an AP group place Group course prices Ask about a place

Paid by card on this site, in US dollars, through Stripe. The exact amount is shown before you pay. A group place is confirmed by e-mail once the payment goes through, and what the course includes opens on the account registered here with the student's e-mail address.

How it runs

How the teaching works

A diagnostic before one-to-one lessons are planned

One-to-one lessons start by finding out where the marks are actually going. That is not a formality: on most of these tests the gap a student describes and the gap the diagnostic shows are different, and hours spent on the described one are hours wasted. A group intake starts on its published first lesson instead.

Teaching in the order your deadline allows

A group course works through the syllabus in a fixed order because a class has to. One-to-one starts with whatever is costing you most and works outwards, which is why it suits a retake or a short runway better.

Timed work from early, not saved for the end

Untimed accuracy is a poor predictor of a timed score, and finding that out three weeks before the test is too late. Timed sections start in the first fortnight, short at first.

Review and progress checks

Review looks beyond the mark: which errors recur, whether the reasoning is clearer and how accuracy holds under time pressure. Bring earlier attempts to the discussion so the next practice has a specific purpose.

All of it runs in the browser, live, with a teacher on the other end. There are no recordings sold as a course and no premises to travel to.

Timeline

How long AP preparation takes

A rough shape rather than a promise. People arrive at different starting points and the plan is built around yours, but this is what a full run usually looks like.

1
From September — alongside the school course
AP preparation works best in parallel with the class rather than as a spring sprint. Lessons follow your school's teaching order so the help arrives while the topic is live.
2
January to March — free response from the guidelines
Past free-response questions marked against the published scoring guidelines. This is the phase that moves scores, and the phase most self-study skips because it is the least comfortable.
3
March to April — full papers under timing
Complete papers to time in each subject, with the review focused on where points were available and not taken.
4
The final weeks — the units still costing marks
Narrow and specific. No new content, and a deliberate reduction in load in the last few days before an exam block that can run to several subjects in a fortnight.

FAQ

AP questions we get asked

How many AP subjects should I take?: Three or four done properly beats six done thinly, for admissions and for scores. The binding constraint is free-response practice time, not content coverage.
Which subjects do you teach?: Calculus AB and BC, Physics 1 and the Physics C papers, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, Micro and Macroeconomics, US and World History, Psychology, and the language exams. If yours is not listed, ask — the answer depends on the teacher's availability rather than on policy.
Can one package cover several subjects?: Yes, and it usually should. A prepaid twenty-lesson package can be split across subjects — seven to Calculus, six to Chemistry, seven to Microeconomics — and rebalanced as the year goes on.
Do AP scores actually give credit?: At many universities, yes, though what a 3, 4 or 5 is worth varies by institution and subject, and some give placement rather than credit. Check your shortlist's published policy; the differences are larger than people expect.
Is a group course available?: Yes: 75 hours per subject in classes of at most six, through the full CED and then past papers. The 2026–27 groups are full, so a place booked now is for 2027–28. Most AP students still take one-to-one, because they need two or three subjects rather than one.
When should I start?: September, alongside the school course, is when the help is cheapest and most effective. Starting in February is common and works, but it turns preparation into triage.

Pricing

What AP preparation costs

Shown in US dollars. Charged in US dollars — there is no conversion at checkout to be surprised by.

One-to-one lessons

Single lesson
One 90-minute lesson, to see how it goes.
$65Book
10 lessons
Prepaid, usable across subjects where the exam has them.
$630
$63 per lesson
Book
20 lessons
The usual choice for a full preparation run.
$1,200
$60 per lesson
Book

Group course · 75 hours

Two fixed weekly slots per subject, Türkiye time. Reserve a place now and choose your start date once dates are published. Timetable and intakes

Paid in full
The whole course, one payment.
$1,755Book a place
In instalments
Per instalment: 3 monthly payments, the first when you enrol.
$585Book a place

First private lesson, or first week of a group course: if it is not what you wanted, you get your money back.

Three or more of you preparing together? We can open a private group at the group course price, with the lesson days and times agreed with the group.

See every package Ask about scheduling

Where this comes from

Everything above about the format of the AP is taken from College Board, the body that sets it. Last checked against that source on 4 September 2026. If you find something here that no longer matches it, tell us and we will correct it.