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AP African American Studies Tutoring & Prep Course

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The AP African American Studies group course is live online: 50 lessons, 90 minutes each, 75 hours in all.

Group lessons are taught in classes of at most 6 students.

The current group's lessons began on 28 September 2026. The group course fee is €1,565 in one payment.

AP African American Studies tutoring across the four units, from the African diaspora to Movements and Debates, with DBQ, short-answer and project support.

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About the subject

AP African American Studies: what it covers and who it suits

AP African American Studies is an interdisciplinary course that builds historical, literary, visual and data-analysis skills together. It launched officially in 2024-25 after two years of piloting, and may satisfy some universities' Ethnic Studies requirement. For students heading towards the social sciences, history, law or international relations, it evidences both source analysis and the ability to run an independent research project.

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AP African American Studies examines the experiences of the African diaspora through direct encounters with primary and secondary sources. After pilots in 60 schools (2022-23) and nearly 700 schools (2023-24), it launched officially in the 2024-25 school year. The course runs across four units from early African kingdoms to the contemporary moment, and is built to develop historical, literary, visual and data-analysis skills together. What distinguishes the assessment is a three-week independent research project: it is scored by teachers against a College Board rubric and confirmed on exam day by a validation question, together making up 10% of the AP score. The exam is delivered entirely in the Bluebook app. Our programme drills both the DBQ and short-answer technique and the source selection, thesis construction and oral defence stages of the research project.

One-to-one AP African American Studies tutoring

Our one-to-one AP tutoring is built entirely around the student's current level and target score. Each lesson works on your specific weak topics, drills exam-format questions and teaches free-response and essay technique with the College Board's scoring guidelines in front of us. Our tutors follow every revision of the Course and Exam Description, so the work you put in matches what is rewarded in May.

AP African American Studies small-group course

Our small-group AP courses (no more than 6 students per class) give you a structured weekly programme alongside students aiming for the same score. The syllabus follows the College Board's Course and Exam Description unit by unit, and every lesson is taught live online.

Exam

AP African American Studies exam format

The College Board runs the AP African American Studies exam every May. Sections, timing and weighting:

  • Section I-A: Multiple Choice

    60%

    60 questions in 1 hour 10 minutes, as sets of 3-4 questions sharing a source.

  • Section I-B: Individual Project Exam-Day Validation

    1.5%

    1 question in 10 minutes — a written response to one of your project's oral-defence questions.

  • Section II: Free Response

    30%

    4 questions in 1 hour 25 minutes: 3 short-answer questions (40 minutes, 18%) and 1 document-based question (45 minutes, 12%) requiring a thesis, contextualisation, at least 3 sources, additional evidence and source analysis.

  • Individual Student Project

    8.5%

    A three-week independent research project with cross-disciplinary source analysis, an oral presentation and a defence, scored by teachers against a College Board rubric. With the exam-day validation question it accounts for 10% of the score.

  • Exam delivery

    Fully digital

    The whole exam runs in the Bluebook app. 2027 exam date: 6 May 2027.

How do I register for the exam?

  • Your Individual Student Project presentation and oral defense are scored by a teacher your test school assigns; without one, those points are lost. Confirm this with the school before you register.

How AP exam registration works

One-to-one AP tutoring

AP African American Studies Private Tutoring

Private AP lessons planned around you: the units you find hardest, your school's pace and the score you are aiming for. Every lesson is live and online, with a tutor who teaches this subject.

  • A lesson plan built around your target score
  • Every unit of the College Board course, in the order you need it
  • Multiple-choice and free-response technique, checked against College Board scoring guidelines
  • Lesson times that fit around your school week

How it works

  1. 1

    Tell us your goal

    We start from your school syllabus, your exam date and the result you are aiming for.

  2. 2

    Your own plan

    We map out the lessons you need, unit by unit.

  3. 3

    Live one-to-one lessons

    Meet your tutor online at times that suit your week.

  4. 4

    Regular progress checks

    Homework and a short check after each lesson show how you are getting on.

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Group course calendar

AP African American Studies Group Course Calendar

50 lessons in total (40 topic lessons + 10 practice-exam walkthroughs). Topic lessons on Monday and Wednesday, 19:00–20:30; practice-exam walkthroughs on Monday, 19:00–20:30 (Türkiye time). Lessons are taught in English.

2027-28 classes

First lesson

27 September 2027

Last lesson

24 April 2028

Enrolment deadline

24 September 2027

AP exam

4 May 2028 (estimated)

Course fee

€1,565single payment

or 3 instalments of €522

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  • 50 lessons in total
  • 40 topic lessons
  • 10 practice-exam walkthroughs
  • Lesson recordings available for 14 days

Lesson-by-lesson calendar

Topic lessonPractice-exam walkthrough
Lesson-by-lesson calendar
DateTopic
27 Sep 2027Mon19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (1/9)
29 Sep 2027Wed19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (2/9)
4 Oct 2027Mon19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (3/9)
6 Oct 2027Wed19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (4/9)
11 Oct 2027Mon19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (5/9)
13 Oct 2027Wed19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (6/9)
18 Oct 2027Mon19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (7/9)
20 Oct 2027Wed19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (8/9)
25 Oct 2027Mon19:00–20:30Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (9/9)
27 Oct 2027Wed19:00–20:30Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance (1/13)

Good to know

  • College Board has not yet published the May 2028 AP exam schedule, so the exam date is estimated from the 2027 schedule. Once it is confirmed, we will adjust the programme to match.

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Syllabus

AP African American Studies topics

Unit and topic names are the College Board's own. Percentages are each unit's share of the exam score, as the College Board publishes them.

1

Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (~900 BCE–16th century)

20–25%
  • What Is African American Studies?
  • Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity
  • Africa's Ancient Societies
  • Indigenous Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism
  • Global Africans
2

Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance (16th century–1865)

30–35%
  • African Explorers in the Americas
  • Departure Zones in Africa and the Slave Trade to the United States
  • Creating African American Culture
  • Gender and Resistance in Slave Narratives
  • Freedom Days: Commemorating the Ongoing Struggle for Freedom
3

Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom (1865–1940s)

20–25%
  • The Reconstruction Amendments
  • Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow Laws
  • Lifting as We Climb: Uplift Ideologies and Black Women's Rights and Leadership
  • The New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance
  • The Great Migration
4

Unit 4: Movements and Debates (1940s–2000s)

20–25%
  • Anticolonialism and Black Political Thought
  • Major Civil Rights Organizations
  • The Black Arts Movement
  • The Evolution of African American Music: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop
  • Black Studies, Black Futures, and Afrofuturism

Advice

AP African American Studies: common mistakes and study tips

Study tips

  • Start the individual research project early: it and the exam-day validation question are 10% of the score, and it is not a last-week job.
  • Treat the DBQ's minimum-three-sources rule as a mechanical checklist — thesis, contextualisation, source analysis and additional evidence each earn separate points.
  • This is not only history: poems, visual works and data tables all appear as sources. Develop a reading method for each type.
  • Unit 2 is the heaviest part of the exam at 30-35%; weight your revision time accordingly.

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FAQ

AP African American Studies Prep — Frequently Asked Questions

The questions students ask most about AP African American Studies preparation.

Yes. The content centres on American history but AP exams can be sat worldwide. The individual research project requires teacher scoring, so it needs coordination with your school's AP coordinator — we plan that step into the preparation.

Your teacher scores the individual research project against a College Board rubric; AP readers score the exam-day validation question. Together they are 10% of the score.

No, there is no prerequisite. The two complement each other — APUSH supplies the chronological spine, this course the diaspora perspective and interdisciplinary source analysis.

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You can cancel a lesson package at any time. Lessons already given are charged at the single-lesson price and the rest is refunded. The first-lesson guarantee applies on top.

Lessons cancelled less than 3 hours before the start count as taken and are not refunded. A lesson that has not been paid for 3 hours before it starts is cancelled automatically.

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