Advanced Placement US History
2022 APUSH Exam scores
2022 APUSH Exam scores
Five students got a 5 and nearly 50% of Spring students passed
Congratulations to the FIVE students who achieved a score of "5" out of "5" (Extremely Well Qualified, highest score): Muhammad A., Ella B., John G., Ben H., and Diego M., on the College Board APUSH Exam. That ties our record for the number of 5s in a year!
Congratulations to the nine students who for scored a "4" out of "5" (Very Well Qualified): Phonnary C., Katie H., Mia J., Kristina L., Anastasia L., Martin R., Gio P., Ben T., and Marryam Z. Congratulations to the seven students who passed with a score of "3" (Qualified): Connor C., Daniel K., Breshna K., Jacob R., Marjaan S., Wesley W., and Abdul Y.
Spring students fared better on the exam
Our goal for the class was 35 passing scores (one more than our best year), and we had 21. Our pass rate of 34% was below our historical average of 37% but better than last year’s 28% pass rate. Consistent with most years, spring students had higher scores. Fall students had a pass rate of 28%; Spring students had a pass rate of 49%. Nationally, the pass rate was only slightly better than last year - 48.4% of the 455,000 students taking the exam who passed with a 3 or better; historically it's been around 52%.
The breakdown for 2022 River City APUSH students:
RCHS Score - Number of Students (Percent of students)
5 - 5 (8%)
4 - 9 (15%)
3 - 7 (11%)
2 - 11 (18%)
1 - 29 (48%)
Total Students: 61 (28 students from the fall; 33 from the spring)
Percent passing with a 3 or above: 34.4%
Mean Score: 2.18 overall; 1.93 fall; 2.36 spring
National distribution of APUSH scores:
5 - 10.7%
4 - 15.6%
3 - 21.9%
2 - 23%
1 - 28.7%
Total Students: 455,482
National percent passing with a 3 or above: 48.4% (50.3% in CA)
National mean score: 2.57
Notes from College Board’s Trevor Packer, head of AP:
- 8 students, out of ~460,000 worldwide, earned all 140 of 140 points possible on this year’s AP US History exam. We’ll notify them and their schools in mid-September when all late exam scoring is complete.
- AP US History students performed very well across all units in the MC section, and once again, they were strongest on Period 6: 1865-1898; 19% of students earned perfect scores on the MC questions about that period.
- The weakest period of US History for AP students this year was Period 4: 1800-1848; 4% of students earned perfect scores on the MC questions about this period.
- In the AP US History free-response section, the highest scores were on the John Mercer Langston 1854 petition for African American suffrage; 14% of students earned all points possible on this short answer question. http://spr.ly/6015zcbOF
- For the 2nd year in a row, the lowest scores in the APUSH FR section were on the question about Native American history, so there’s a need for more focus on these essential topics, a large part of the course. 52% of the students who opted for this question earned 0 points on it.
- DBQ Breakdown (Topic: National Identity from 1800-1855):
- Thesis Point - 77%
- Contextualization point - 54%
- Evidence points - 14% earned 3 points; 32% earned 2 points; 39% earned 1 point; 15% earned 0 points
- Analysis and Reasoning - 4% earned 2 points; 24% earned 1 point; 72% earned 0 points