The AP Physics curriculum and exam formats are undergoing significant changes for the upcoming academic year, aiming for greater alignment across different physics courses and reduced time pressure on exams.
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all right I've been wanting to make this
video for a while for you guys um I just
want to get through all the AP Physics
exams this past year just because if I
if I talked about the changes for next
year it might confuse you guys who were
prepping for this this past Year's exam
so there are some big changes to the
entire AP Physics curriculum and exam
format for next year and I'm want to go
through that line by line and just
explain because it's like a it's it's a
pretty big deal it's a lot of prep
changes the exam format changes for a as
a quick summary for AP Physics 1 and 2 a
bit of content change and a medium
pretty decent size um AP exam format
change and then for AP Physics C it's
primarily a huge AP exam format change
right the content itself isn't really
changing so um let's kind of just kind
of dive right into it here so um the
first thing um let's talk about AP
Physics 1 and we're going to go through
one class at a time so first off they're
adding fluid this is probably like a
huge portion right here they are adding
in fluids into um the this was usually
previous part of AP Physics 2 but
they're adding fluids it would now be
unit a um this is a little bit confusing
they're changing the it they're re
they're also renumbering some
units so there is some renumbering
that's going on here it's not simply
this they're getting rid of unit three
unit three two and three are being
combined and this this is more in line
uh oops jeez combined um for forces so
unit 3 was circular motion and gravity
it's being combined into here and then um
um
units okay so it is correct the number
of units but there are some changes uh
in that structure and this makes sense
it was really tough to make rotation a
lot of people I think it under I think
people underestimate how much work
rotation was by calling it one unit
rotation is really you learning all of
it all of the linear motion you just
apply the rotation motions so you got to
learn like four units of stuff into one
unit I my curriculum had already split
this up I always split it into like
rotation and Dynamics and then energy
and momentum and college board's doing
the similar thing here so that's
probably like but ultimately it's one
additional unit in fluids um they're
going to be doing some stuff with power
that's pretty minor they didn't really
talk about power much before or require
it so it's like a one it's just like a
three minute explanation on something
like that and then the equations for
motions for a simple harmonic motion the
equations were given there on the
equation sheet but very rarely used so
now we're actually going to be using
this a lot more um and that's just to
beef up the simple harmonic motion so
those are pretty minor changes uh a
little bit in here and this is just
saying like they can add in more styles
of questions for multiple choice and
objective so um overall like so the big
thing I would say take away is really
the addition of
of fluids the addition of fluids is
going to be kind of a big deal um the
the the bigger deal for a lot of you are
going to be the exam format I think some
of you who have taken AP Physics one
might feel like oh man this is way so
much better first of all there's um
we're going down to 40 multiple choice
instead of 50 multiple choice okay and
then removing the two select questions I
think that's really good that was a very
confusing one I think some people didn't
quite understand it there was only like
five of those on an exam every year um
that was a little bit tricky
so we are decreasing the time from 90 to
80 minutes so you're you're decreasing
it to uh 10 multiple choice you decrease
to 10 minutes you're getting more uh
time per
question which is always nice uh I think
the McQ is always a bit of a rush so
this reduction is actually pretty good
you get about 2 minutes whereas you had
about 1.8 minutes per qu McQ on average
before now you have 2 minutes per McQ
that's a that's a nice little make it a
little bit less time pressured um you're
also going to go down to four F frqs and
then notice the time you're going to get
100 minutes on those four F frqs so this
is going to make the F frqs much less
time pressure now don't don't get me
wrong the the frqs are going to be a
little bit longer and I'm going to
probably dig into the frq Styles in a
separate video but um the frqs will
probably get a little bit longer overall
but um overall you'll feel less time
pressure because part of the hard part
of five f varus is you're trying to
understand the scenario you're trying to
break down the situation and that's that
takes time no matter how short the frq
is right so now you have less scenarios
to kind of read um you're given more
time the big thing here is these two in
terms of the F frqs these two are are
are kind of new um previously you had short
short
answer and then the dreaded paragraph
answer paragraph answer which is a short
answer they are getting rid of the
paragraph answer there is no more
paragraph frqs So any of you who've
studied or prepped for paragraph F frqs
or any of you teachers who pre them you
don't need to do a paragraph answer
anymore mathematical routines is going
to both of these I would say are very
similar to um just what they were kind
of CED in in the short answer short
answer mathematical routines is going to
be a kind of a derivation related one
and like I said I'm going to dig into
that in a separate video uh the details
on each of the frq Styles and I'm going
to be adding that my curriculum to the
free curriculum to explain what are the
different frq styles and how to prep for
them um in the translation between
representations this is one where you're
going to be doing a lot of graphing as
well as equations like you're making
sure you understand the equation the
graphing sketches that kind of thing
that's what they mean by translation
between representations there so
definitely a gra highly emphasize a
graphing question on this part like
sketch aaph like I said short answers
used to cover those kinds of things but
now they're going to be explicitly
separated and and identified and we're
getting rid of that paragraph answer the
experimental design and the qualitative
quantitative are largely staying the
same I think the qualitative
quantitative is going to be a shorter
frq overall this was one of the bigger F
frqs and I think they I saw in the
timings they are going to shorten that
one a little bit but like I said I'll
have a separate video to talk about the
details of each of those frq Styles so
overall I think net positive obviously I
actually do like this I think less time
pressure on the McQ less time pressure
on the frqs and I like these frqs
paragraph answered I like the idea I
like the attempt I think it was just one
of those things that a lot of students I
know it's it's good if you can write and
explain things I think one of the
challenges with a paragraph answer is
you're not entirely sure what it is
you're supposed to be putting in there I
think that's the big challenge is like
what is it that you want to see at a
like if you like for the greaters what
are they looking for explicitly I think
that's sometimes hard even for me when I
was going through through the paragraph
answers I think that was a bit of a
challenge sometimes to be like well do
that do how much detail do I have to put
in here and I'm experience so I know the
kinds of major things but for a student
to say like can you stitch together
everything that's required what is sort
of given knowledge that you don't have
to explicitly State and what are things
that you do have to explicitly State I
think getting rid of that is nice it
does help in that sense um so overall I
think this is a great uh great positive
uh increase the the addition of fluids
by the way is also nice I think is also
um very common for algebra based physics
classes in college like my my common
analogy is if you look at like at
Berkeley just CU I know the numberings
there physics 7A is the engineering
physics class the equivalent of physics
C physics 8A is the equivalent of the um
non-engineering physics class which is
kind of like supposed to be like AP
Physics one and that one they will cover
fluids they actually cover
thermodynamics in there usually but you
know at at least adding in fluids is
more common whereas in um the physics 7A
the calculus based or engineering
physics fluids is sometimes included not
necessarily always included um so I
think this is pretty common for more
alignment with with a topic this is
definitely better than when they had the
circuits and electricity back a few
years ago fluids is a more natural fit
for um for AP physical one for mechanics
class I also think the addition of
fluids will make the exam a little bit
easier you have more content to cover
but fluids is one of those that like
it's an added topic you usually don't
confuse it with a rotation problem or
any or or energy or momentum it's a
pretty like not a standalone topic but
um it will be easier to identify this is
a fluid's question so I need to apply
fluids principles when I'm doing this
problem okay AP Physics 2 um so they're
not they're getting rid of the fluids as
we just talked about um and then um
they're also renumbering him like unit 9
through sorry unit 9 through 14 or
something like that instead of starting
over at one just to just sort of say
there's some continuity with AP Physics
1 um they're bringing back waves okay
waves disappeared in AP Physics 1 in
2020 um during Co and um it disappeared
with electricity electrostatics and now
and it was kind of like whoa what
happened to waves cuz in physics 2 you
would learn electromagnetic waves but
there was no like treatment of waves
well that's being brought back in uh
full treatment of waves mechanical waves
resonance and sound Doppler effect beats
things like that um I've actually
started I've put together the curriculum
and the lessons actually for sound
already in the AP Physics 2 curriculum
if you want to check it out um so I've
already I've already added that stuff in
um they're also splitting up the geom
and physical this is just organization
still same topic still Optics and still
um electromagnetic waves but they're
just sort of like separating them out
reorganizing a little bit of
reorganizing this and um I I think this
one's interesting a more comprehensive
treatment of circuits I think a a more
detailed analysis of circuits this one
we'll kind of see how that goes I
usually give a pretty detailed treatment
of circuits um obviously as an
electrical engineer I know a lot lot lot
more circuit techniques and Analysis I
do not think you will need to know that
much more but it's just sort of like a
little bit more rigorous that then just
sort of some of the qualitative stuff
they've done before um on some of that
um and they're adding in a new topic
about black body radiation which
connects thermodynamics and modern
physics so and confident scattering so
these are pretty minor topics these are
pretty easy things to um cover they're
not like major things to include in
there and then the exam format will be
identical to the AP Physics one change
so again decrease to 40 mcqs shorten the
time so more time there and then again
the same four techniqu so there's going
to be this alignment between AP Physics
1 and 2 um in terms of the exam format
cuz you know in 2024 right for you guys
the last one who just took the exam it
was four frqs versus uh five F frqs in
AP Physics 1 a little bit inconsistent
so now it's going to be standardized
going to be very similar almost in ex
identical exam format that's probably
the biggest change that leads us into AP
Physics C is that there's no real
content changes but we are doing the
exact same things that AP phys phys 1
and 2 so now there's an alignment
between AP Physics C exams and AP
Physics 1 and 2 exams to make them more
similar um you are guys are getting a
huge change in timing in order to align
with the AP Physics 1 and two you you
went from 40 you're going to go to
you're going to go from 35 to 40 but
look at this you're doubling your time
here okay not doubling but like a huge
increase in time so again going up to
that 2 minutes per time you know I've
done the practice test for AP Physics C
I've gone through them honestly I think
this is a good change the AP Physics C
multiple choice and frqs tend to be
heavily heavily time pressured in the
past which is why the curve was so
generous it was so generous that like it
was very very difficult for students to
complete and have a high accuracy I I
think there's no one ever gets a perfect
score on the AP Physics C exams because
of the intense time pressure you're
under I don't think it's like a
necessarily a good thing in terms of
like you know identifying whether or not
you're good at physics I I think you
know it needs to be timed I think the
time pressure was a little intense
before so I think this is going to be
better I think what you'll see as a
result of this is that the scoring is
going to be a little bit tougher it's
not going to be that 50 60% to get a
five that you need AP Physics I think
the threshold will be higher closer to
AP Physics 1 and two in order to get
that five so for for some of you might
think the test is easier I think the the
threshold for getting a five is actually
going to be higher because more people
are going to do better because more
people are not just going to be getting
things wrong simply because of the time
pressure okay the frq Styles it used to
be three F frqs 15 minutes per frq for
45 minutes total now you'll get four F
frqs that are um good I think the other
important thing of this four F frqs is
with three f frqs it was always tough to
give you a question at every topic you
kind of missed the topic some sometimes
now with this new change of having these
frqs similar to the AP Physics 1 and 2
and then you have four of them you're
definitely going to hit a lot more of
the topic so it's not going to be as
much R RNG when it comes to like what
kind of questions and what kind of
topics you're going to be tested on this
is going to give you a more
comprehensive look at all of the topics
and be tested on everything instead of
just being like hey this year I didn't
get a rotation question woo lucky me so
there's kind of like that that kind of
um uh advance es for having the the
questions like this and then you're
going to 100 minutes for the frq so way
less time pressure on the frqs this is
the one I most familiar with on how time
pressured the AP Physics C exam used to
be just because um you were always I
mean I did all the F frqs in one sitting
and I was like look takes me about 25
minutes to do them that's an experienced
teacher good rule of thumb is that uh an
exam should take at least two to three
times longer than the it takes the
teacher to do it and that's a good rule
of thumb and there's no way for like 45
minutes was the fqs before 15 minutes
for me to do each of those fqs in about
like say seven six or seven minutes was
a little bit unrealistic okay so um I
think this is going to be a good like
good good change to the exam format I'm
actually really excited for this even if
some of you feel like well now it's a
huge longer exam I know the downside
being that you feel like you won't be
able to do it one afternoon um but it is
a better assessment you got to think
that this is a test that's supposed to
assess your entire year there's I've
never seen a physics final over a whole
semester in the entire mechanics be
simply like a 90minut exam like that is
going to cut out so much stuff so this
is going to be a better representation a
better evaluation and a better thorough
treatment of like what it is that you
guys have learned over the past um over
the past topic enm going to be primarily
the same there's a there's a few oh I
did talk about some of these things um
they were talking about um uh using
similar language as AP Physics 1 um so
basically like stronger alignment
between some of the terminology their
terminology was sometimes misaligned so
they're just going to be more consistent
so um enm is going to be very similar
with AP Physics 2 they're going to align
they're going to align some of the
curriculum um um um and then they're
going to add in a couple of minor topics
like LC circuits which is like AA very
rarely maybe on a practice test you
would have seen an LC circuit they're
going to do a more in- depth or make
make sure that you understand what an LC
circuit is uh some of you might be like
who taken AP Physics enn might be like
what the heck is LZ circuit it's a
little oscillator that happens but
sometimes we talk about um it not being
tested very heavily but that's going to
be like a more important topic now that
they have more a longer exam to evaluate
more of your understanding um so
stronger alignment and then basically
some ring of the units content wise
nothing really major in the enm it's
really about the exam format which is
identical to the physics C mechanics
changes too again all the things that I
think are really good longer exam format
um less time pressured um com
encompassing more of the topics you're
supposed to know for those things I
think those are all great things for AP
Physics C the downside being that you
won't NE NE it will be harder to
schedule both AP exams cuz they will be
full three-hour exams so that means like
you're going to have to you know pick
and choose a little bit or scheduling is
if you're if you're on a case where
you're taking both of these exams um it
could be a little bit you know more
overlap with your schedule with your
other AP exams so anyway um put in the
comments below if you have any other
follow-up questions I will be doing a
more depth uh look at what each of those
frq Styles going to be in the com months
um just to help you prep for what it is
that the exam format that uh you're
going to be looking what what it's going
to be looking like just because um and
and I you know I'm going to probably be
busy trying to
extract past questions that align with
those things but put in the comments
below if you have any other questions or
any comments or any thoughts about the
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