2024 AP Art and Design Exam Guide

Your Guide to the 2024 AP Art and Design Exam

Format of the 2024 AP Art and Design Exam

• The Selected Works consists of 5 works demonstrating 2-D skills and synthesis of materials, processes and ideas.
• Along with each work, you have to write about the ideas evident, the materials used, and the processes that were utilized (100 characters maximum per section). 
• The Sustained Investigation (SI) consists of 15 digital images demonstrating sustained investigation through practice, experimentation and revision, along with sustained investigation and synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas, and your 2-D skills.
• In writing you have to include the guiding question or inquiry for your sustained investigation and describe how your SI shows practice, experimentation, and revision that was guided by your chosen question. 
• For each image you submit, you have to include the materials and processes used along with its size. Be sure to write it as height x width x depth in inches if it’s an image of physical work!

• The Selected Works consists of 5 works that show your drawing skills and synthesis of materials, processes and ideas.
• Along with each work, you have to write about the ideas evident, the materials used, and the processes that were utilized (100 characters maximum per section).
• The Sustained Investigation is made up of 15 digital images demonstrating sustained investigation through practice, experimentation and revision, along with sustained investigation and synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas, and your drawing abilities.
• In writing you have to include the guiding question or inquiry for your sustained investigation and describe how your SI shows practice, experimentation, and revision that was guided by your chosen question. 
• For each image you submit, you have to include the materials and processes used along with its size. Be sure to write it as height x width x depth in inches if it’s an image of physical work!

• The Selected Works consists of 5 works with 2 views of each, so 10 images in total, that show your 3-D skills and synthesis of materials, processes and ideas.
• Along with each work, you have to write about the ideas evident, the materials used, and the processes that were utilized (100 characters maximum per section).
• The Sustained Investigation is made up of 15 digital images demonstrating sustained investigation through practice, experimentation and revision, along with sustained investigation and synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas, and your 3-D skills.
• In writing you have to include the guiding question or inquiry for your sustained investigation and describe how your SI shows practice, experimentation, and revision that was guided by your chosen question. 
• For each image you submit, you have to include the materials and processes used along with its size. Be sure to write it as height x width x depth in inches!

Scoring Rubric for the 2024 AP Art and Design Exam

When is the 2024 AP Art and Design Portfolio Deadline?

How Should I Prepare for the Exam?

• First, download the AP Art & Design Cheatsheet PDF - a single sheet that covers everything you need to know at a high level. Take note of your strengths and weaknesses!
• Review each rubric, and focus on the areas of your sustained investigation that need the most improvement. We've put together this plan to help you study between now and May to make sure you covered all of the bases in your portfolio!
• Study, practice, and review for test day with other students during our live cram sessions via Cram Mode. Cram live streams will teach, review, and practice important topics from AP courses, college admission tests, and college admission topics. These streams are hosted by experienced students who know what you need to succeed.

AP Art and Design 2024 Study Plan

🔖Unit 1: Course Overview

• 1.0 Overview of AP Art and Design
• 1.1 Getting Started With the Basics
• 1.2 Connections to Art Traditions

🍥 Unit 2: Portfolio Design Skills

• 2.0 Creating Art – Overview
• 2.1 Portfolio Skills and Requirements
• 2.2 Questioning Art
• 2.3 Principles of Design for AP2D and Draw
• 2.4 Principles of Design for AP3D
• 2.5 Developing Student Voice

• Revision and Ideation in the AP Art and Design Portfolios
• AP2D
• The Principles of Art, Explained
• AP3D
• The Principles of Art, Explained
• AP Draw
• The Principles of Art and Mark-Making, Explained

🤔 Unit 3: Portfolio Analysis

• 3.1 Creating a Portfolio
• 3.2 Sustained Investigations
• 3.3 Inquiries and Guiding Questions
• 3.4 Identifying Guiding Questions
• 3.5 Selected Works
• 3.6 Explanation of Artistic Processes
• 3.7 Writing for AP Art

•  Writing Your Inquiry Statement
• AP2D
• Demystifying Inquiry
• Demystifying Synthesis
• AP3D
• Demystifying Inquiry
• Demystifying Synthesis
• AP Draw
• Demystifying Inquiry
• Demystifying Synthesis

💯 Unit 4: Exam Rubrics

• 4.1 Score Makeup
• 4.2 Sustained Investigation Rubric
• 4.3 Selected Works Rubric

• AP3D Example Student Artworks and the Rubrics

💡 Unit 5: Tips and Tricks

• Things to Know When Taking AP Art and Design
• 5.1 Plagiarism vs Appropriation
• 5.2 Photographing Work for Submission
• 5.3 Things to Avoid in your Portfolio

• How to Photograph Your Art – Lights, Camera, Action!
• AP2D
• Choosing Your Selected Works
• AP3D
• Choosing Your Selected Works
• AP Draw
• Choosing Your Selected Works