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AP® European History Score Calculator
Put in how many multiple choice questions you got right (or think you would) and your points on each free-response question. You'll see your weighted composite, an estimated 1 to 5 for the May 2027 exam, and what it would take to reach a 3, 4 or 5.
The 1 to 5 here is a rough estimate. College Board doesn't publish the cutoffs, and there's no released conversion chart for this exam in its current form, so treat the score as a ballpark and the composite as the solid number. How we estimate
Your estimate
- Weighted composite
- 59 / 100
- Rough AP score
- 4
You're close to a cutoff, so this could be a 3 to 4.
An estimate, not a prediction. College Board sets the real cutoffs each year and doesn't publish them. See how we estimate below.
What you'd need
Based on our estimated cutoffs. Aim a few points higher to be safe.
| For a | Multiple choice right, with your free response | Free-response points, with your multiple choice |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 8 of 55 | About 29% of the points (7 of 22) |
| 4 | 30 of 55 | About 56% of the points (13 of 22) |
| 5 | 45 of 55 | About 74% of the points (17 of 22) |
How the European History exam is scored
Your multiple choice score is the number you get right, with nothing taken off for wrong answers. Each free-response question is scored with a rubric, point by point. College Board weights each part and adds them into one composite score, then turns that into a 1 to 5. Multiple choice is 40% of the European History composite, and free response is 60%.
| Part | Most you can earn | Share of your score | Each question or point adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple choice (55 questions) | 55 questions | 40% | 0.73 of 100 |
| Short answers (3 questions, 3 points each) | 9 points | 20% | 2.2 of 100 |
| Document-based question (DBQ) | 7 points | 25% | 3.6 of 100 |
| Long essay (LEQ) | 6 points | 15% | 2.5 of 100 |
College Board gives each part its own share: multiple choice 40%, the three short answers 20% together, the DBQ 25% and the long essay 15%. Each short answer is scored out of 3.
One multiple choice question adds 0.73 to your composite out of 100. A free-response point adds between 2.2 and 3.6, depending on the question. So one point on document-based question is worth about 4.9 multiple choice questions, and every point you can get on a written answer counts.
How we estimate your score
First we add up your composite score out of 100. Each part of the exam gets the share of your score that College Board gives it for the 2027 exam, and within a part, each point counts the same unless College Board weights the questions differently.
Then we turn the composite into a 1 to 5. College Board sets the real cutoffs each year after the exams are scored, and it doesn't publish them. The only official cutoffs anyone can see are in conversion charts College Board printed with some older exams it released in full. Each chart shows where the cutoffs fell on that exam, in that year. We turn each chart's cutoffs into a share of its total and average them.
For European History, College Board printed charts with its 2004 and 2009 released exams; it has since taken them down, so we link to archived copies of its own files. Those exams had 80 multiple choice questions worth half the score and no short answers. In 2024 College Board reset the European History score standards, and more students have earned a 3 or higher since, so the real cutoffs may be lower than these.
Because of that, the 1 to 5 here is a rough estimate. Your weighted composite is the more solid number: it uses College Board's own weights for the 2027 exam.
| Chart | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 released exam (archived copy) | 70%126 of 180 | 59%106 of 180 | 43%77 of 180 | 33%60 of 180 |
| 2009 released exam (archived copy) | 66%119 of 180 | 56%100 of 180 | 39%71 of 180 | 33%60 of 180 |
| Our cutoff (the average) | 68 | 57 | 41 | 33 |
Within 6 points of a cutoff, the calculator shows a range instead of one score, because the real cutoff could fall on either side of you.