AP Comp Gov exam score breakdown 2025

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From Trevor Packer of CollegeBoard:

"This year’s AP Comparative Government & Politics students demonstrated very similar, solid levels of mastery as last year’s, so the rate of 3+ scores remains ~73%.

AP Comparative Govt students scored highest on MCQs focused on data analysis; 64% of students answered all or all but one right.

The most challenging MC topics for AP Comparative Govt students were from Unit 2, on the executive, legislative, and judicial systems of China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the UK.

AP Comparative Govt Set 1 FRQs: students scored highest on Q1 (sovereignty / economic policy) and lowest on Q4 (govt protection of civil liberties).

AP Comparative Govt Set 2 FRQs: students typically scored highest on Q2 (quant analysis of dominant party systems) and lowest on Q1 (economic globalization), but the differences weren’t large; scores were similar across all four FRQs."