Question 1
The writer wants to replace "For example" at the beginning of sentence 14 with a transition that shows how the fourth paragraph relates to the paragraphs before it. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
AP English Language study planner for May 2027
Claims and Evidence and Reasoning and Organization each carry 24–30% of the multiple choice; Rhetorical Situation and Style 22–28%. Tell the planner how sure you are of each and it spends your multiple-choice time where the points are; write one timed essay a week beside it.
30 weeks to the exam on May 12, 2027
Start with Claims and Evidence
Claims and Evidence: 29.1 of your 120 hours. It carries 24–30% of the multiple choice, about 12 of the 45 questions. Write one timed essay a week beside it.
| Big idea | Hours | About this many questions |
|---|---|---|
| Claims and Evidence | 29.1 | 12 of 45 |
| Reasoning and Organization | 29.1 | 12 of 45 |
| Rhetorical Situation | 26.9 | 11 of 45 |
| Style | 26.9 | 11 of 45 |
Week by week
- Week 1 · Oct 13Claims and Evidence
- Week 2 · Oct 20Claims and Evidence
- Week 3 · Oct 27Claims and Evidence
- Week 4 · Nov 3Claims and Evidence
- Week 5 · Nov 10Claims and Evidence
- Week 6 · Nov 17Claims and Evidence
- Week 7 · Nov 24Claims and Evidence
- Week 8 · Dec 1Claims and Evidence, Reasoning and Organization
- Week 9 · Dec 8Reasoning and Organization
- Week 10 · Dec 15Reasoning and Organization
- Week 11 · Dec 22Reasoning and Organization
- Week 12 · Dec 29Reasoning and Organization
- Week 13 · Jan 5Reasoning and Organization
- Week 14 · Jan 12Reasoning and Organization
- Week 15 · Jan 19Reasoning and Organization, Rhetorical Situation
- Week 16 · Jan 26Rhetorical Situation
- Week 17 · Feb 2Rhetorical Situation
- Week 18 · Feb 9Rhetorical Situation
- Week 19 · Feb 16Rhetorical Situation
- Week 20 · Feb 23Rhetorical Situation
- Week 21 · Mar 2Rhetorical Situation
- Week 22 · Mar 9Rhetorical Situation, Style
- Week 23 · Mar 16Style
- Week 24 · Mar 23Style
- Week 25 · Mar 30Style
- Week 26 · Apr 6Style
- Week 27 · Apr 13Style
- Week 28 · Apr 20Style
- Week 29 · Apr 27Timed practice exam, then review every miss
- Week 30 · May 4Timed practice exam, then review every miss
| Exam | Wednesday, May 12, 2027 |
|---|---|
| Claims and Evidence | 24–30% of the multiple choice |
| Reasoning and Organization | 24–30% |
| Essays | 55% of the score |
How the plan is made
- Each big idea starts from the middle of its published weight range (the sum of its reading and writing skill categories).
- A big idea you have not started gets about one and a half times its share; a solid one gets under half.
- The final one or two weeks are timed practice exams with review of every miss.
Making the hours count
- Write one timed essay a week, taking synthesis, rhetorical analysis and argument in turn, and revise it from feedback.
- Read nonfiction from different centuries: essays, speeches and letters. The reading questions reward range.
- After every practice set, sort your misses by skill category, not by passage.
Try 2 questions
The following is a draft of a post a student intern is writing for the blog of a museum of farm life, introducing a new exhibit on windmills and weather vanes. It may need revision.
(1) Before power lines reached the Great Plains, many farm families depended on the wind for two things: water and warnings about the weather. (2) Some of the machines they used still stand on the farms where they were built, and a few of them still work. (3) Our new exhibit, "Reading the Wind," opens on April 5 and shows how those families put the wind to use.
(4) The tall steel windmills that still dot the Plains were not built to make electricity. (5) As the wind turned the blades, a reciprocating sucker rod actuated a cylinder pump submerged in the well casing. (6) They pumped water. (7) Every ranch in the West had at least three windmills. (8) A single windmill could keep a stock tank full through a dry summer, as long as the wind kept blowing.
(9) Weather vanes did a different job. (10) A farmer who saw the vane swing around to the northwest on a warm afternoon knew that colder air, and perhaps a storm, could be on its way. (11) Vanes were also really pretty. (12) Each was made to be read from far across a field, so its shape had to be simple and bold. (13) The exhibit includes a fish, a running horse, and a copper rooster from a barn in Kansas, along with a dozen other vanes lent by local families.
(14) For example, the wind turbines rising across the Plains look nothing like the old farm windmills, but they rely on the same idea: the wind does the work so that people do not have to. (15) The exhibit ends with a turbine blade forty feet long, on loan from a wind farm in western Kansas and so large that it fills the length of the gallery.
(16) The museum is open every day except Monday, and children under twelve are admitted free with an adult. (17) We hope you will visit.
Question 2
The writer wants to replace sentence 17 with a closing sentence that invites readers to visit by recalling the exhibit's theme. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Next step
College Board's AP English Language and Composition course and exam description
Questions people ask
Which skills are weighted most on the AP English Language multiple choice?
Claims and evidence (reading) and reasoning and organization (reading), at 13–16% each. The other six skill categories carry 11–14% each.
How long should I study for AP English Language?
It depends on where you start. Steady weekly practice, with one timed essay a week, works better than a final cram.
When should I start studying for the 2027 AP English Language exam?
Now is best: steady weekly study leaves the final weeks for full practice exams before May 12, 2027.