How hard is it to get a 5 on AP Studio Art exam?

<p>Hey all!
I'm currently a freshman in high school and I love art. I have won numerous state competitions and now that I qualify for more national level stuff, I am planning on submitting more pieces to those as well. However, I would like to take AP Studio Art Drawing or 2D Design as a Junior (no time Soph year) but I'm still unsure of the "exam". Since the AP Art exam isn't your typical sit down exam, can someone tell me how hard it is to get a 5? If you have a portfolio I can look through, please PM me. I also have some sample pieces I have done in the past year or so, and I can show those to whoever wants to assess my artistic abilities. I really do love art and will be taking this course, but would really love some feedback from a more experienced person. Thanks in advance</p>

<p>Bump! Please?</p>

<p>Talk to your teacher and find out what students have scored on the AP exam for the last couple of years. That will be the real information you need. Also look on College Board for their AP exams… they have test questions and prep info.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t say that I’m super experienced, but I am taking AP 2-D Design this year and am practically done with my portfolio, so if you have any questions, feel free to mail me or ask here. I know relatively nothing about AP Drawing, though.
First of all, you’ll have to start by picking between Drawing and 2-D (you can take both, but I wouldn’t recommend doing so in the same year; also, you can’t overlap pieces between the two portfolios anyway). While some rare pieces of art may qualify for either test, they’re both looking for entirely different things. 2-D, in general, does not require drawing ability in the slightest but encourages photoshop skills, and deals with a wider range of mediums (though it’s pretty flexible in the sense that your portfolio could be all digital media or have no digital pieces at all).
Both have concentration, breadth, and quality categories. There should be 12 art pieces in concentration (it’s like a themed exposition), 12 different pieces in breadth (breadth in subject matter, approach, and possibly medium), and 5 quality pieces (which can overlap with your breadth/concentration pieces) for a total of 24-29 pieces.
As for how easy it is to get a 5, it obviously depends on your works. If you have decent aesthetic intuition and resources, it’s not difficult at all, but it’ll still be time-intensive (depending on how many works you have done already). I think AP Drawing’s viewed as more time intensive than AP 2-D Design; one can come up with a great design piece in an hour, but it’s harder to do that with a painting.</p>

<p>[Collegeboard</a> samples for 2-D Design](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board)
[Collegeboard</a> samples for Drawing](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board)</p>

<p>Thanks for the input! I didn’t realize the rubric was from 0-6 instead of 0-5.</p>

<p>I got a 5 on my portfolio for Studio Art AP 2D design and I have not taken any outside art classes since I was in elementary school. Also, I basically had no experience with Illustrator or Photoshop until I took Graphic Design in summer school the summer before sophomore year (I took Studio Art junior year and had to basically relearn everything). So I would say that it’s relatively easy to get a 5 since I have no art background and my portfolio sucked.</p>

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