AP Environmental Science was first offered in the 1997–1998 school year.
This course is designed to provide students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies necessary to comprehend the relationships abundant within the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems, to evaluate relative risks associated with these identified problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing similar problems facing the global environment.
[1] Topics covered in AP Environmental Science[2] as of Fall 2019 include: Topics covered in AP Environmental Science prior to Fall 2019 include: The AP Environmental Science exam is divided into a multiple choice and free response section.
A four-function, scientific, or graphing calculator is allowed on both sections of the exam.
"[2] The new exam contains two sections with slight changes:[5] The percentage of students scoring a grade of "5" was only 7.0% in the 2021 testing administration.