<p>my chemistry teacher just told us today that the college board uses the same multiple choice questions for the AP tests every year in 5 year intervals. so she said that for chemistry, the multiple choice questions for this year's test would be the same as all the tests all the way back to the year they last released their MC questions. is this true? and if so, wow, i can definitely see people getting around the system then.</p>
<p>From what my art history tell me, is that some questions will be the same and some won't. Like supposed they have a database of questions, and they choose from them, and so some questions might be the same from previous tests. I guess once they release an exam, they trash the questions. I guess it works something like that. Don't know if theres any truth to it</p>
<p>collegeboard: </p>
<p>"Equating relates an AP Exam from one year to an AP Exam from another year so that performance on the two exams can be compared. This is accomplished by looking at how well AP students performed on a set of multiple-choice questions that is common to both exams. These particular multiple-choice questions cover the curriculum content and represent a broad range of difficulty; they can therefore provide information about the ability level of the current group of students and indicate the current exam's level of difficulty. This same set of questions may show up on next year's AP Exam and the one after that too."</p>
<p>I believe you could find similar style of questions, but the answers would not be exactly the same.</p>
<p>Not true. I took AP Spanish this year and last year, and it was different then last year's.</p>