Full Practice and Exam-Week Plan

Goal: put the whole exam together. You will check the facts and dates that matter, build a week-by-week review plan from today to the exam, run a full practice at home, score it, and turn the results into your next week's plan. You will also get a plan for the last 72 hours, a checklist for exam day, and plain steps for handling test anxiety.

Time: three sittings of about 35 to 40 minutes, one 15-minute return day, and then the full practice itself. A full practice takes about 3 hours and 15 minutes, plus about 2 hours to score. You can split it into two days.

Help: you can do this on your own or with family. You do not need a tutor. The Forms score your answers, and the answer key explains every choice. A family member is very useful for a full practice, because they can keep the clock and take your phone.

How it works: start at the top and work down in order. When you reach a line that says Stop here, you are done for that day.

Get these ready:

• Your tracker. Use the same copy you used in Modules 1 to 10. It has a Full Practice tab for this module.
• The answer key for Module 11. Keep it closed until a step tells you to open it.
• Modules 5, 7, and 8. Each has a table for scoring an essay.
• A timer or clock you can see, and a watch that is not a smartwatch.
• Paper and a pencil.
• Your College Board account email and password.

Why it is built this way: a major review of study methods rated practice testing and spacing your study over time as the two most useful methods. A full practice is practice testing on the real clock. It also shows how long you can keep your focus for 3 hours and 15 minutes, which short sets cannot show. Then you plan the next weeks from the results and space the work out. Rest is part of the plan too.

Original practice only: every question in the Forms and games was written for this kit. The full practice uses the kit's own timed sets from Modules 9 and 10, and College Board's own released essay prompts and sample questions. You read College Board's material on College Board's site. Do not paste it into AI tools, because College Board does not allow its content to be used with them.

If you get stuck

Do these in order:

1. Read the explanation in your Form results or the answer key.
2. Open the tools table below and find the step you are stuck on.
3. Add the question to the My Mistakes tab, keep going, and try again at your next sitting.
4. Still stuck? Post your question in the Community Stream in the Student Hub. Start your post with Q: so tutors and other students can answer it. Ask about one specific question or step.

Doing this with your family

A family member does not need to know AP English. For a full practice they can take your phone, call out the time at each checkpoint in Part 4, and keep the room quiet. They can also help with the checklists in Part 6. They can ask you one question each week: "What are your two things for this week, and when will you do them?"

Your exam-week tools

Try first (about 5 minutes)

Open the Try First Check. Answer all 5 questions before you read anything below. Mark how sure you are on each one. It is fine to miss some, because trying first helps you remember the answers later.

When you submit, choose View score and read why each answer is right or wrong. Write your score on the My Scores tab of your tracker.

Got 5 out of 5? Skip Part 1 and go to Part 2.

Part 1: The facts and dates that matter (about 15 minutes)

These facts come from College Board's own pages. Each row shows where it came from and the date it was checked. College Board can change a date or a fee. Check the pages again in March 2027 and in the week before the exam. If a page and this table disagree, trust the page.

The exam

The total of 3 hours 15 minutes is the sum of the two sections. College Board's pages do not say how long any break is. Ask your AP coordinator about breaks and about when to arrive.

Ordering the exam, the deadline, and the fees

Bluebook and your device

What to do for your situation

Your exam setup

Fill this in on a piece of paper or in your own copy of this doc. If you cannot fill in a row, that row is your next task.

Part 2: Your review plan from today to the exam (about 15 minutes)

A plan has to do five jobs. It has to teach the skills, test them on the real clock, fix what the tests show, space the work out so you do not forget it, and leave you rested. This part gives you a plan by weeks left, and a way to pick each week's work from your tracker.

The plan by weeks left

The dates below assume that you start the week of November 9, 2026, with 26 weeks left. Weeks run Monday to Sunday. If you start later, find the row that matches the weeks you have left, and begin there.

If you have fewer weeks

How to pick each week's work from your tracker

Once a week, in a 20-minute check-in, look at four tabs of your tracker. Each one tells you something different.

From these four, pick two things for the week. Write them with a day and a time. Two things done is better than six things planned. Here is the order to pick in: first the thing that is both a top sticking point and a low essay row; then a skill you have lost; then the section where time ran out.

A normal week

Spacing: retake an Exit Check about 2 weeks after you finish a module, again about 6 weeks later, and again about 12 weeks later. Put these dates on your calendar when you finish each module. The numbers are a plan, not a rule from research.

Replay Game 1 and try to beat your score.

Part 3: Run a full practice at home (about 15 minutes)

A full practice is the whole exam, in the order the exam uses, on the real clock, in one place, with no help. You score it afterward. It tells you three things the short sets cannot: how you use your time, how you feel in hour three, and which parts of your plan work.

What College Board offers, and what it does not

College Board does not offer a free full-length AP Lang test in Bluebook. Its full-length practice tests in Bluebook are for the SAT and PSAT. For AP, it offers test previews, which are short, untimed, and unscored. Students in a class section or an exam-only section can also use AP Classroom. What you can open there depends on your section, so ask your AP coordinator. College Board posts released essay questions, scoring guidelines, and sample responses on its site. So at home you build the full practice from three sources.

How big your Section 1 is

The two kit sets are 20 questions in 26 minutes. A real Section 1 is 45 questions in 60 minutes. To make a full-size section, add College Board's sample questions at about 80 seconds each. If you cannot find enough, do the 20 questions on the 26-minute clock and note "20 questions" on your score sheet. The Full Practice tab works with any number of questions.

You did the Module 9 and Module 10 timed sets once already. By the time of a full practice you may remember some answers. Count the score, but put a star by any answer you remember. Use that part of the practice for pace and for your miss log, not to judge your skill.

The rules of a full practice

1. Pick a morning and start at the time the exam starts, 8 a.m. if you can. Use the same room and the same device you will use on the exam, if you can.
2. Put your phone in another room. Ask a family member to keep the clock and call out the checkpoints from Part 4.
3. Have only what the exam allows: your device, a charger, a watch, and a pencil or pen for notes on paper. Do not use your tool cards or the modules.
4. Type your essays in a blank document with no AI helper and no writing suggestions. Use a different document for each essay.
5. Do the sections in the exam's order: Section 1, then Section 2 (the reading period, Question 1, Question 2, Question 3).
6. Do not pause the clock. If the room is interrupted, note the minute and the number of minutes lost.
7. Do not score anything until the whole practice is finished.

Which essays to use

Here are the released free-response sets on College Board's site. All of them are free. Read the prompts on College Board's site only.

Question 1 is the synthesis question, Question 2 is the rhetorical analysis question, and Question 3 is the argument question. Here is a plan that uses a fresh prompt in each place where it can.

If you worked on a Question 2 earlier, you may remember it. If you can, use a different one. If not, wait at least 6 weeks, and compare your two essays. That is useful too. The 2026 questions have no sample responses on College Board's page yet, so for that one you will score with the scoring guidelines only.

One sitting or two

College Board's pages do not say how long a break is on exam day, so ask your AP coordinator. In practice, take a break of about 10 minutes and do not look at your phone.

Part 4: Pacing tables (about 10 minutes)

A pacing table gives you checkpoints. At each one, ask yourself if you are ahead, on pace, or behind. Then use the move. If you do not know where you are, you cannot fix it.

Section 1: 45 questions in 60 minutes

That is about 80 seconds for each question on average, and the time you spend reading each passage counts. Reading questions take longer than writing questions. In Module 9 you used about 80 seconds for each reading question. In Module 10 you used about 70 seconds for each writing question. If 24 questions are reading and 21 are writing, that is about 32 minutes plus 25 minutes, and a few minutes are left for checking. Use the table as a guide.

You are on pace if you are within 2 questions of the checkpoint. If you are on question 8 at minute 15, you are behind. If you are on question 38 at minute 45, you are ahead.

Section 2: 2 hours 15 minutes for three essays

Check how Bluebook lets you move between questions in Section 2, in the test preview or with your AP coordinator. Use the reading period for Question 1's sources, because they are the longest to read.

A 40-minute essay on Question 2 or Question 3

The times add up to 40 minutes. The checkpoints by minute are: plan and introduction done by minute 7, body paragraph 1 by minute 16, body paragraph 2 by minute 25, body paragraph 3 by minute 34, and the ending by minute 36.

A 40-minute essay on Question 1

When you are behind

Practice these moves in your timed work before the exam. You will not use them well for the first time under stress.

Practice Set (about 10 minutes)

These are original practice questions, not College Board questions. Open the Practice Set and answer them there. Each one gives a short case, like the results you will have on your own tracker. The Form asks how sure you are on each question, scores your answers, and explains every choice. The same questions are printed below. If you prefer paper, answer them below, mark each one 1 (guess), 2 (maybe), or 3 (sure), and check them in the answer key.

Question 1. Your tracker shows these facts. Exit Checks: Module 3, 5 out of 5. Module 4, 2 out of 5. Module 5, 4 out of 5. Next Step tab, top sticking point: Commentary. Your three latest essays average Thesis 1, Evidence and Commentary 2, Sophistication 0. You have 10 weeks left. Which plan fits this week?

A) Replay the Module 4 games, retake the Module 4 Exit Check, and rewrite one body paragraph with the CHAIN steps

B) Reread Module 3 because it comes first

C) Write three new essays and do not score them

D) Take a full practice today

Question 2. At 30 minutes into Section 1 you are on Question 17. The pace table puts you at about Question 22 at that point. What should you do?

A) Nothing, because you are on pace

B) Go back and recheck your first 17 answers

C) Speed up: guess on any question that is not clear after about 2 minutes, mark it, and move on

D) Stop guessing and answer only the questions you are sure of

Question 3. You are writing a 40-minute essay. At minute 20 you have finished your introduction and only the first body paragraph. What is the best move?

A) Keep writing and skip the ending

B) Plan two body paragraphs instead of three, write a short ending, and keep the last 3 or 4 minutes to check

C) Start over with a new thesis

D) Stop the essay and begin the next question early

Question 4. A student scores 4, 3, and 5 out of 6 on the three essays, and gets 28 out of 45 on multiple choice. Using only the exam weights, which unofficial percent is closest?

A) About 62 percent

B) About 75 percent

C) About 12 percent

D) About 65 percent

Question 5. After a full practice, a student has multiple-choice reading 14 out of 24, multiple-choice writing 19 out of 21, and essays 5, 5, and 2. The third essay stopped after the introduction because time ran out. What is the first fix?

A) Practice the 40-minute essay clock on Question 3 type prompts, using two short drills of plan, introduction, and one body paragraph

B) Replay the writing multiple-choice games

C) Rewrite the thesis frame from Module 3

D) Wait and see, because one low score is not a pattern

Question 6. About how far apart should your full practices be?

A) Every day

B) Two to three weeks, with targeted work in between

C) Only once, in the last week

D) Every six months

Question 7. A student starts the kit with 4 weeks left before the exam. Which modules does the Start Here page tell this student to do first?

A) All eleven modules, one each day

B) Only Module 11

C) Module 1, then Modules 4, 5, and 9, plus one more chosen from the tracker

D) Modules 2 and 3 only

Question 8. After a full practice, which result should drive next week's plan?

A) The question you liked least

B) The first essay you wrote

C) Always the multiple-choice section, because it is quicker to practice

D) The essay row, trap, or question type that cost you the most points across your misses

Read the explanation for every choice, including the questions you got right. Write your score on the My Scores tab of your tracker. Add a row to My Mistakes for each question you missed or rated 1 or 2. Use the sticking point named in the explanation.

Replay Game 2 and try to beat your score.

Part 5: Score your full practice and plan the next week (about 15 minutes to read)

You will use these steps after every full practice. Read them now so you know what you will do. The scoring takes about 2 hours for a full practice, so do it in a second sitting, not right after the practice.

Step 1: Score the multiple choice

1. Count the questions you got right in the reading part and in the writing part. Use the answer keys: Module 9 key, Module 10 key, and College Board's answer key for any sample questions you used.
2. Write both counts on the Full Practice tab, with the number of questions in each part.
3. For each miss, and each star, add a row to My Mistakes: Module 11, the question (Full Practice 1 and its number), the sticking point (What the question asks, Proving a choice in the text, or Writing questions), the trap of the choice you picked, why you missed it, and what you will do next time. Use the trap names from Modules 9 and 10.
4. Note the minute you finished the section, and the minute at each checkpoint.

Step 2: Score the three essays

1. Score each essay on the three rows, using the tables in Module 5 (rhetorical analysis), Module 7 (argument), and Module 8 (synthesis). Thesis is 0 or 1. Evidence and Commentary is 0 to 4. Sophistication is 0 or 1. The total is out of 6. The wording is the same as in Module 1.
2. Score each row before you open any College Board sample. Write down why you gave each score, with words from your essay.
3. Then open the scoring guidelines and the sample responses for the same question on College Board's page. Read them there only. Compare your essay with a sample at the score you gave it, and adjust your score if you were wrong. Do not paste any of it into AI tools.
4. Add one row for each essay to the My Essays tab. Use Module 11 in the Module column, and write the minutes you used.
5. Note which essays you did not finish.

Step 3: Fill in the Full Practice tab

Open the Full Practice tab of your tracker. Fill in one row. The tab adds up your multiple choice and your essays and works out an unofficial percent.

The unofficial percent: multiple-choice questions right, divided by the number of questions, times 45. Plus essay points out of 18, divided by 18, times 55. These are the weights of the two sections. For example, 33 of 45 questions and 12 of 18 essay points is 33 plus 36.7, which is about 70 percent. This is practice feedback only. College Board sets the 1 to 5 score after each exam, and you cannot work it out from this number. Use the percent to compare your own full practices with each other.

Step 4: Turn the results into next week's plan

1. Count your misses by trap, by question type, and by essay row.
2. Find the three signals from Part 2: the top sticking point, the lowest essay row, and any skill you have lost.
3. Pick two things. Use the if-then table below.
4. Write them on your calendar with a day and a time.
5. Set the date of your next full practice, or the date you will stop doing full practices.

An example

A student's Full Practice 1: 15 of 24 reading questions right, 18 of 21 writing questions right. Question 1 scored 4 (Thesis 1, Evidence and Commentary 3, Sophistication 0). Question 2 scored 5 (1, 4, 0). Question 3 scored 3 (1, 2, 0). That is 33 of 45 on multiple choice and 12 of 18 on the essays, so the unofficial percent is about 70. The lowest rows are Evidence and Commentary on Question 3 and Sophistication on all three. The student picks two things: Module 4 and Module 7 for Evidence and Commentary on Question 3, and the Module 9 games, because reading is 15 of 24. Sophistication waits until the other rows are steady. Check your thinking against the answer key.

Next full practice: 3 weeks later.

Part 6: The last 72 hours, exam day, and test anxiety (about 15 minutes)

The last 72 hours

The exam is at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, May 12 for most schools. The last 72 hours start at 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 9. The aim is to get ready, not to learn more.

Exam-day checklist

This list comes from College Board's page, What to Bring on AP Exam Day, checked November 10, 2026. Check the page again in the week before the exam. Your school may have more rules.

Ask your AP coordinator these questions before the exam: What time do I report? Where do I put my bag? Is a device provided? What is the rule about breaks and drinks? What do I do if my device has a problem?

On exam day

Test anxiety: plain steps

Some nerves are normal. They are a sign that the exam matters. These steps help most students keep nerves from getting in the way.

1. Practice on the real clock. Full practices are the best fix, because the exam stops being a surprise.
2. Know your first two minutes. The plan above gives you something to do when you sit down.
3. Breathe out longer than in. Breathe in for a count of 4 and out for a count of 6, five times. You can do this at your desk.
4. Write the worry and the next step. Write one sentence about the worry, and one sentence about what you will do if it happens. For example: "I may run out of time in Question 3. If it is minute 95, I will write two body paragraphs."
5. If you blank, write. Write the words from your plan: who, to whom, wants, feels. Then write the next sentence. Starting is the hard part.
6. Move on from a bad section. A hard section is over when it is over. The next one counts as much.
7. Sleep and eat. A normal dinner and a normal breakfast are part of the plan.
8. Ask for help early. If nerves keep getting in the way of your work, talk to a school counselor or a doctor. College Board also offers accommodations to students with documented disabilities. These are set up through the school well before exam day, so ask your coordinator.

Exit Check (about 5 minutes)

Open the Exit Check. Answer all 5 questions without your notes. When you submit, choose View score and read why each answer is right or wrong. Write your score on the My Scores tab of your tracker. Add any question you missed to the My Mistakes tab.

4 or 5 right: you are ready for your return day. 3 or fewer right: replay Game 2 and Game 3, and reread Part 4 and Part 6, before your return day.

Set your return date. Pick a date one to two weeks from today. Write it on the Next Step tab of your tracker and on your calendar.

1. Replay the game that felt hardest.
2. Retake the Exit Check without your notes.
3. Write your score on the My Scores tab and compare it with your first try.

4 or 5 right: go to Part 7. 3 or fewer right: open the help for the questions you missed, then retake the Exit Check in a few days.

Run this when your plan in Part 2 says so, or sooner if you have finished Modules 5, 8, 9, and 10. Plan 3 hours and 15 minutes for the practice, plus a second sitting of about 2 hours to score it. Use the same steps for Full Practice 2 and 3 with the sets in Part 3. Do not open the answer key until Step 6.

Before the day

1. Choose the day and time. Tell a family member who will keep the clock.
2. Print or open the pace tables in Part 4, and keep them for the family member. You will not use them during the practice. They are for the person who calls the checkpoints.
3. Open the Module 9 timed set, the Module 10 timed set, and the College Board essay sets you chose, but do not read the prompts. Close them again. Check that you can open the files.
4. Charge your device. Check that you can sign in to Bluebook, and open the test preview if you have not yet.

The practice

The family member calls out the checkpoints from Part 4 and writes down the question or the paragraph you were on at each one. They do not say anything about whether you are right.

Your answer sheet: multiple choice

Questions 1 to 10 are the Module 9 reading set and questions 11 to 20 are the Module 10 writing set. If you add College Board sample questions, number them 21 and up on a separate sheet. Reading right: ____ out of ____ Writing right: ____ out of ____ Minutes used: ____

Your answer sheet: checkpoints

Your answer sheet: essays

Essay points: ____ out of 18 Unofficial percent: ____ My most common trap: ____________ My lowest essay row: ____________

This score is practice feedback. It is not an official AP score, and it does not predict your exam score.

After the practice

1. Do not look at anything. Stop and eat.
2. Score it in a second sitting, using the steps in Part 5.
3. Open the answer key for Part 7 only after your scoring is done.
4. Fill in the Full Practice tab, the My Essays tab, and the My Mistakes tab.
5. Write next week's plan and your next full practice date on the Next Step tab.

Try College Board's own sample questions (optional)

College Board publishes sample multiple-choice questions for this course in its Course and Exam Description. Read them on College Board's site only. Do not paste official questions or passages into AI tools, because College Board does not allow its content to be used with them.

1. Open College Board's AP English Language and Composition course page and find the Course and Exam Description. You can also open the Course and Exam Description PDF directly.
2. Find the sample multiple-choice questions. Try them at about 80 seconds each. Reading questions take a little longer and writing questions a little less.
3. Check your answers with the key that College Board gives. Log each miss on the My Mistakes tab and name the trap by looking at the choice you picked.

If you want more official practice, College Board's past exam questions page may list more sample material.

Next step: open the Next Step tab of your tracker. Follow your plan for the week. Your kit work after this is the weekly plan from Part 2, with a full practice at the weeks shown, until May 12, 2027.

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