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The 2027 exam is on Monday 3 May 2027. It has two sections of equal weight.
| Unit | Weighting | Class periods |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Thinking Geographically | 8–10% | ~9–10 |
| 2. Population and Migration Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
| 3. Cultural Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
| 4. Political Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
| 5. Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
| 6. Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
| 7. Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes | 12–17% | ~19–20 |
Source: College Board, AP Human Geography Course and Exam Description and AP Central exam page.
Use this as a checklist. Each unit page has the full topic list, key ideas, common mistakes and its practice test.
Unit 1 gives you the tools for the rest of the course: reading maps and their distortions, judging where geographic data comes from, describing patterns with spatial concepts, and choosing the right scale and region for a question.
Focus on: every map distorts something; data has sources and limits; spatial concepts describe patterns; scale changes the story.
Unit 2 explains where people live, how populations grow and age, and why people move. You will read population pyramids and data, use the demographic transition model, judge Malthusian arguments and explain push and pull factors.
Focus on: density has three measures; growth comes from births, deaths and migration; the dtm links development and population; migration has push and pull factors.
Unit 3 is about how culture shapes places and how it spreads. You will read cultural landscapes, tell the types of diffusion apart, explain how religions and languages spread, and weigh the effects of globalization on local cultures.
Focus on: culture leaves marks on the landscape; diffusion has distinct types; religions spread in different ways; diffusion changes cultures.
Unit 4 explains how territory is divided and controlled. You will tell states, nations and nation-states apart, classify boundaries, explain gerrymandering and redistricting, compare federal and unitary states, and judge the forces that hold states together or pull them apart.
Focus on: states, nations and nation-states differ; boundaries are drawn and changed; internal boundaries shape power; centripetal and centrifugal forces.
Unit 5 covers how and where food is produced. You will connect farming types to climate and markets, trace the three agricultural revolutions, apply the von Thünen model, read rural settlement and survey patterns, and weigh the consequences of modern agriculture.
Focus on: intensive and extensive farming; three agricultural revolutions; von thünen's rings; a global food system.
Unit 6 explains why cities grow where they do and how they are organised inside. You will use site and situation, the rank-size rule and central place theory, compare urban models from different world regions, and analyse gentrification, sprawl and sustainability.
Focus on: site and situation; city size follows patterns; urban models; changing cities.
Unit 7 explains why some places are richer than others and how the world economy connects them. You will trace industrialisation, use economic sectors and measures such as GDP, HDI and the Gender Inequality Index, and compare development theories, trade and sustainable development.
Focus on: industry spread from britain; economic sectors shift with development; development is measured many ways; theories explain uneven development.
Yes. Every unit test, the full practice exam and the FRQ prompts with scoring guides are free and need no account. After you submit, you see the correct answer to every question, why it is right, and why each wrong option is tempting.
The exam is 2 hours 15 minutes. Section I has 60 multiple-choice questions in 1 hour; Section II has 3 free-response questions in 1 hour 15 minutes. Each section is worth 50% of the score.
Three. Question 1 has no source, question 2 has one source (data, an image or a map) and question 3 has two. Each is worth 7 points. Our FRQ practice page has original questions in the same format.
The College Board has scheduled it for Monday 3 May 2027, in the morning session. It is a fully digital exam taken in the Bluebook app. Check with your school for your exact start time.
No. StudyCoach wrote every question for this site and mapped each one to a topic in the College Board's AP Human Geography Course and Exam Description. For official past free-response questions, see the College Board's AP Central website.
Not at the moment. The tests are interactive so they can score your answers, explain each one and show which topics need work. You can retake any test as often as you like.
Take a unit test, read the explanations for every question you missed, review that unit's key ideas, then retake it. Close to the exam, take the full practice exam under the 60-minute timer and practise writing FRQ answers that do exactly what the task verb asks.
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