AP World History Score Calculator

Multiple choice (55 questions) is 40% of your score, the 3 short-answer questions 20%, the document-based question (DBQ) 25% and the long essay (LEQ) 15%. Your weighted total is converted to an AP score from 1 to 5.

Each short-answer question is worth 3 points (1 per part), the DBQ 7 points and the long essay 6 points. College Board says these rubrics stay the same for the 2027 exam.

From May 2027 you answer all 3 short-answer questions (one with secondary sources, one with a primary text source and one with a non-text source) and one required long essay with no choice. The DBQ covers a wider time range. The multiple-choice section, rubrics and course content are unchanged.

The weighted total uses the official section weights and rubric points. College Board sets the cut scores for each AP score every year and doesn't publish them, so the 1–5 result is an estimate.

College Board doesn't publish the exact cut scores. As a rough guide, this calculator estimates a 5 from about 70% of the weighted total. In May 2025, 13.9% of students scored a 5.