

As a reminder, the most recent research on AP Human Geography students who earn a 2 on the exam found that these students proceeded to earn higher grades when taking the course in college than students with the same high school GPA, SAT score, race, and gender.

It’s also important to honor the efforts of students who don’t earn a score of 3+ on the AP Human Geography Exam, but who nonetheless developed basic understandings and skills in the course. Common item equating enables researchers to compare learning this year to years prior to the pandemic, finding that this year’s students developed a significantly stronger understanding of the course content and skills than students in the years immediately prior to the pandemic, a remarkable outcome for AP Human Geography teachers and students. While in most AP subjects the disruptions of this past year are evident in lower-than-usual scores, AP Human Geography is a rare exception to that pattern. The following table enables comparisons of student performance in 2021 to student performance on the comparable full-length exam prior to the covid-19 pandemic. Data from students who tested in June are not yet available.ĪP Human Geography score distributions, 2019 vs.

The following data reflect the 193,660 students worldwide who took either the paper or the digital AP Human Geography Exam in May.
