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Since 2008, TestPrep Europe has taught AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism through one-to-one tutoring and small-group courses on its own online learning platform. The programme combines the AP syllabus with subject teaching, problem solving and past-paper practice.

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AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism: what it covers and who it suits

AP Physics C: E&M tutoring at TestPrep Europe covers electrostatics, conductors and capacitors, electric circuits, magnetic fields and electromagnetism in the calculus-based form expected by the College Board. The exam relies on integration of vector fields and on Gauss's, Ampère's and Faraday's laws — the rubric rewards explicit setup more than the final number.

  • Calculus-based treatment from Coulomb's law to Maxwell's equations
  • Gauss's and Ampère's laws practised as symmetry-driven techniques
  • Faraday's law and Lenz's law drilled with sign conventions explicit
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AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism (E&M) is the calculus-based electromagnetism course, normally taken alongside Physics C: Mechanics. It covers the foundations of Maxwell's equations: electric fields and potential, Gauss's law, circuits, magnetism and Faraday's law of induction. For students applying to electrical engineering or physics, this exam is a meaningful credential.

AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism is the standard university-level electromagnetism course taught at the high-school level. Students start with charge and electric fields, prove and apply Gauss's law to symmetric problems, analyse capacitors and dielectrics, and then move to DC and RC circuits. The second half of the course covers magnetism: the Biot–Savart law, Ampère's law, Faraday induction and inductors. Single-variable calculus is used continuously; symmetry keeps every integral one-dimensional. Our students typically take E&M and Mechanics in the same exam window; we structure the year so the two exam preps reinforce each other, with shared calculus reviews, joint problem sets and weekly FRQ analysis from released exams.

One-to-one AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exam format

The College Board runs the AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exam every May. Sections, timing and weighting:

  • Section I: Multiple Choice

    50%

    42 questions in 1 hour 25 minutes. Updated effective with the May 2027 exam. Calculators permitted.

  • Section II: Free Response

    50%

    4 questions in 1 hour 35 minutes of calculus-based electromagnetism problem solving.

  • Exam delivery

    Hybrid digital

    Multiple choice is answered in Bluebook; free-response answers are handwritten.

How do I register for the exam?
  • You can take AP Exams without taking the AP course at your school, but you can't register on your own.
  • Find a school that runs AP Exams and ask its AP coordinator to place you in an "exam only" section; enter the join code in My AP as soon as you get it. In some countries, College Board also lists authorized AP test centers you can register with directly.
  • Schools place their exam orders by mid-November; late additions, up to about mid-March, cost extra. Contact schools by the end of October at the latest.
  • College Board's AP Course Ledger lists the schools that offer AP; search it by country and city.

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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

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    Tell us your goal

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

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    Your own plan

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

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AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Group Course Calendar

50 lessons in total (40 topic lessons + 10 past-paper lessons). Topic lessons on Saturday and Sunday, 12:00–13:30; past-paper lessons on Sunday, 12:00–13:30 (Türkiye time). Lessons are taught in English.

2026-27 intake

Full

First lesson

10 October 2026

Last lesson

2 May 2027

Enrolment deadline

7 October 2026

AP exam

5 May 2027

Course fee

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  • 50 lessons in total
  • 40 topic lessons
  • 10 past-paper lessons
  • Lesson recordings available for 14 days

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Lesson-by-lesson calendar

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Lesson-by-lesson calendar
DateTopic
10 Oct 2026Sat · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (1/9)
11 Oct 2026Sun · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (2/9)
17 Oct 2026Sat · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (3/9)
18 Oct 2026Sun · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (4/9)
24 Oct 2026Sat · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (5/9)
25 Oct 2026Sun · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (6/9)
31 Oct 2026Sat · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (7/9)
1 Nov 2026Sun · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (8/9)
7 Nov 2026Sat · 12:00–13:30Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (9/9)
8 Nov 2026Sun · 12:00–13:30Unit 9: Electric Potential (1/6)

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  • 50 lessons in total: 40 teaching lessons and 10 exam walkthroughs.
  • Teaching phase: two lessons a week (Saturday and Sunday), 12:00–13:30.
  • Walkthrough phase: one lesson a week (Sunday), 12:00–13:30.
  • Lessons per unit follow the College Board's multiple-choice unit weights: Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law (15–25%) gets 9 lessons and Unit 11: Electric Circuits (15–25%) 8; Units 9, 12 and 13 (10–20%) get 6 each and Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors (10–15%) gets 5.
  • Past exams are worked through from 2026 back to 2017. The 2020 exam was a shortened, free-response-only online exam, so a TestPrep practice test takes its place.

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Syllabus

AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism topics

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

1

Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law

15–25%
  • Coulomb's Law
  • Electric fields due to point charges or combinations of charges
  • Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
  • Electric fields of charge distributions
2

Unit 9: Electric Potential

10–20%
  • Electric potential
  • Electric potential due to point charges and uniform fields
  • Electric potential due to configurations of charge
  • Energy conservation when electric charges interact with each other or electric fields
3

Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors

10–15%
  • Electrostatics with conductors
  • Capacitors
  • Dielectrics
4

Unit 11: Electric Circuits

15–25%
  • Current and resistance
  • Current, resistance, and power
  • Steady-state direct-current circuits with batteries and resistors only
  • Gauss's Law
5

Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism

10–20%
  • Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields
  • Forces on current carrying wires in magnetic fields
  • Fields of long current carrying wires
  • The Biot-Savart Law and Ampère's Law
6

Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction

10–20%
  • Electromagnetic induction (including Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law)
  • Inductance (including LR circuits)

Approach

How we teach AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism

Study plan

  1. 1

    Phase 1 — Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law

    Coulomb's law, fields of charge distributions, Gauss's law

    • Fields of continuous charge distributions via integration
    • Gauss's law on spherical, cylindrical and planar symmetry
  2. 2

    Phase 2 — Unit 9: Electric Potential and Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors

    Potential, conductors, capacitance, dielectrics

    • Relation V = −∫ E · dl
    • Capacitance from Gauss's law and ΔV
    • Energy stored in capacitors
  3. 3

    Phase 3 — Unit 11: Electric Circuits

    Current, resistance, power, DC circuits

    • Kirchhoff loops with multiple EMFs
    • RC charging and discharging
  4. 4

    Phase 4 — Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism and Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction + mock

    Biot-Savart, Ampère's law, Faraday's law, inductance

    • B-field of loops, solenoids and toroids
    • Motional EMF and Lenz's law sign conventions
    • LR circuits
    • Released FRQ set under timed conditions

How lessons work

  • Symmetry-first thinking

    Gauss's and Ampère's laws are only useful when symmetry collapses the integral. We teach students to identify symmetry first, then choose a surface or path that exploits it.

  • Sign conventions written down

    E = −∇V, dΦ/dt and Lenz's law all hinge on signs. We write the minus signs out every time, so they don't disappear under exam pressure.

  • Conceptual ↔ calculation pairs

    Every quantitative result is paired with its conceptual interpretation, because Physics C: E&M FRQs frequently ask for both — and the rubric awards each separately.

Advice

AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism: common mistakes and study tips

  • MistakePicking a Gaussian surface that doesn't match the symmetry.

    FixMatch the surface to the field's symmetry — sphere for point/charge sphere, cylinder for infinite line/cylinder, pillbox for infinite plane. Otherwise the integral can't be evaluated.

  • MistakeConfusing electric field direction with electric potential gradient sign.

    FixE = −∇V; remember the minus. On a sketch, field lines point from high to low potential.

  • MistakeWrong direction on induced EMF (Lenz's law).

    FixState the change in flux first, then the induced current direction that opposes the change — never start with the current.

  • MistakeMixing up B-field vs H-field formulas under time pressure.

    FixAP C: E&M sticks to B; H is not on the formula sheet. If you see a μ₀ disappear, you've copied a non-AP formula.

  • MistakeTreating a capacitor with a dielectric as the same as without.

    FixDecide first whether the battery stays connected (V fixed) or is disconnected (Q fixed); the dielectric changes different quantities in each case.

  • MistakeVague explanations on conceptual FRQs ('the field gets stronger').

    FixTie the answer to a named law — Gauss's, Ampère's, Faraday's — and the symmetry being exploited.

Study tips

  • On Gauss's law problems, the right Gaussian surface is the whole game — pick it by symmetry.
  • Master the differential equation for charging and discharging an RC circuit; it appears in some form every year.
  • Think in vectors throughout; field and force directions are where most students lose easy points.
  • Take E&M and Mechanics together if you can — the two exams reinforce each other and prep efficiently in parallel.

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AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Prep — Frequently Asked Questions

The questions students ask most about AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism preparation.

For most students yes — E&M uses more vector calculus and relies more heavily on Gauss's, Ampère's and Faraday's laws.

No. The exam stays within single-variable calculus and uses symmetry to avoid genuine multivariable integrals. Comfort with single-variable integration and basic vectors is enough.

Yes — students often tutor E&M (the harder of the two) and self-study Mechanics. We can support either configuration.

Students with a Physics C: Mechanics base usually book 35–55 hours; students taking E&M as their first calculus-based physics typically book more.

A cohort takes 24 students, taught in classes of at most 6 because the cohort is split by level. Lessons are live and online, and every lesson is recorded; each recording stays available for 14 days from the lesson date.

The money-back guarantee covers live lessons. If you are not satisfied after your first private lesson, we refund your payment in full. On a group course, the same applies to the lessons held in the first week. The question bank and practice tests are not part of it.

No. They are digital products that open the moment you buy them, so they are not refundable. The one exception is the EU right of withdrawal: within 14 days of purchase, as long as you have not started a test or opened the question bank.

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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