AP STATISTICS

'Advanced Placement Statistics' ('AP Statistics' or 'AP Stat') is a high school mathematics course offered by the College Board that, upon successful completion, will provide college credit or higher college course placement for the student. This course is equivalent to a non-calculus-based introductory college statistics course. However, there are schools that are able to integrate AP Calculus BC into this course.
One of the College Board's more recent offerings, the first AP Statistics exam was administered in May 1997. It has set records for the fastest growing AP course.

Contents

Topics covered

The exam

Grade distributions

References

Popular textbooks

External links

Topics covered

★ Exploration and Interpretation of Data (Categorical, Quantitative, Univariate, Bivariate)

★ Graphs to represent Data (Histograms, Stemplots, Boxplots, Ogives, Scatterplots)

★ Normal Distributions

★ Sampling Methods

★ Experiments and Design

★ Simulations

★ Probability

★ Random Variables

★ Binomial and Geometric Distributions

★ Sampling Distributions

★ Statistical Inference

The exam

The AP Statistics exam is three hours long with 90 minutes on each of its two sections: Multiple Choice and Free-Response. The multiple choice portion of the exam is graded with 0 points for blank answers, -1/4 points for incorrect answers, and +1 point for correct answers. The free response section contains five questions and one investigative task. Questions typically relate two or more areas of study (such as probability and statistical inference), while the investigative task requires the integration and appliance of several statistical concepts. The multiple choice and free response sections each count equally towards the final grade. Each student is expected to bring a graphing calculator to the exam. The list of acceptable graphing calculators is available here.

Grade distributions

In the 2006 administration, 88,237 students took the exam from 4,464 schools. The mean score was a 2.86.
The grade distribution for 2006 was:

Score	Percent
5	12.6%
4	22.2%
3	25.3%
2	18.3%
1	21.6%

References

Popular textbooks

''The Practice of Statistics'' by Daniel Yates, David Moore, and George McCabe.
''Stats: Modeling the World'' by David Bock, Paul Velleman, and Richard DeVeaux.
''Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis'' by Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen, and Jay Devore.
''Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data'' by Ann Watkins, Richard Scheaffer, and George W. Cobb.

External links

★ AP Statistics at ''collegeboard.com''

★ AP Statistics Grade Distribution at ''collegeboard.com''