| Steven M. Reff Economics Lecturer University of Arizona (2007 - 2016) The 2015 University of Arizona Five-Star Faculty Award |
On August 21, 2025, College Board removed
public access to most older FRQs and
hyperlinks to those FRQs.
When you click on an OLD FRQ hyperlink,
the user is redirected to the 3 most recent
years’ past questions available on AP Central,
with additional questions accessible to AP
teachers through AP Classroom.
According to Mytutor.com, here is the:
College Board’s Official Reasoning
At the time of the change, College Board
stated that their decision to remove the
majority of past FRQ material was based on
feedback from AP teachers.
As the internet has grown, answer keys,
sample responses, and scoring rubrics for
older exams have been widely shared online.
Teachers reported that making decades of
old exam materials publicly available in fact
limited their usefulness in the classroom.
When educators tried to use old prompts for
midterm exams or class assessments, they
found that many students had already seen
the questions and answers during their own
independent study.
By hiding the older archives and restricting
additional questions to the AP Classroom
portal (which can only be unlocked by
verified teachers), the College Board aims to
ensure that educators retain the flexibility to
use these valuable resources to build skills and
assess progress with academic integrity.
While the change protects classroom testing
security, it has sparked widespread frustration
within communities where self-studying
students relied heavily on the historical
archive for independent exam preparation.
public access to most older FRQs and
hyperlinks to those FRQs.
When you click on an OLD FRQ hyperlink,
the user is redirected to the 3 most recent
years’ past questions available on AP Central,
with additional questions accessible to AP
teachers through AP Classroom.
According to Mytutor.com, here is the:
College Board’s Official Reasoning
At the time of the change, College Board
stated that their decision to remove the
majority of past FRQ material was based on
feedback from AP teachers.
As the internet has grown, answer keys,
sample responses, and scoring rubrics for
older exams have been widely shared online.
Teachers reported that making decades of
old exam materials publicly available in fact
limited their usefulness in the classroom.
When educators tried to use old prompts for
midterm exams or class assessments, they
found that many students had already seen
the questions and answers during their own
independent study.
By hiding the older archives and restricting
additional questions to the AP Classroom
portal (which can only be unlocked by
verified teachers), the College Board aims to
ensure that educators retain the flexibility to
use these valuable resources to build skills and
assess progress with academic integrity.
While the change protects classroom testing
security, it has sparked widespread frustration
within communities where self-studying
students relied heavily on the historical
archive for independent exam preparation.