AP English Language and Composition practice tests and lessons
Build your AP English Language and Composition study plan around a clear baseline, guided practice and useful feedback. Work through the subjects below, review your mistakes and return to a timed test when you are ready.
What to expect in AP English Language and Composition practice
Workbook-aligned original AP English Language and Composition practice: 45 multiple-choice items in five sets, three essays and a six-source synthesis packet. Editorial difficulty 4/5 and 5/5; not an official or statistically calibrated AP exam. 195 testing minutes plus a 10-minute break.
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Official AP English Language and Composition resources
AP English Language and Composition subjects and lesson topics
Lessons combine a worked example, guided exploration and checked exercises. Required steps must be completed before a lesson counts toward your progress. These are available study topics, not a guarantee of official exam coverage or a score increase.
Multiple Choice
Rhetorical situation
Explain a choice through the writer’s occasion, audience and purpose, rather than attaching an appeal label.
Audience and purpose
Choose additions and revisions that address a specified audience’s actual objection without conceding more than the evidence supports.
Claims and evidence
Evaluate the warrant connecting a specific observation to a broader claim; distinguish evidence that supports a mechanism from evidence that merely shares a topic.
Evidence and commentary
Build commentary that explains a warrant and its limits instead of paraphrasing evidence or claiming an effect it cannot establish.
Reasoning and organization
Track how successive paragraphs change the grounds of a claim, including the work performed by concessions and examples.
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Free Response
Synthesis essay
Develop your own position by bringing sources into conversation; three citations are a minimum source requirement, not a substitute for reasoning.
Rhetorical analysis essay
Analyze how particular choices advance a writer’s purpose for an audience; avoid replacing analysis with a list of devices or agreement with the position.
Argument essay
Defend a position with specific evidence and explained warrants; develop a meaningful qualification instead of substituting a list of examples for an argument.
Synthesis Skills
Source evaluation
Judge a source by what it can establish for a particular claim, considering method, incentives, expertise and corroboration together.
Data and visual rhetoric
Read what a visual measures before accepting the story suggested by its scale, denominator or framing.
Citation and integration
Integrate and attribute specific evidence while preserving the source’s degree of certainty and keeping your own inference visible.
Argument Skills
Counterargument and sophistication
Develop a counterargument that tests your warrant, then use its strongest point to refine the position rather than attaching a token concession.
Exam Strategy
Exam pacing and self-review
Use selective rereading and targeted revision to protect reasoning under the exam’s time limits.
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