About us
AP essays are HARD (and stressful)! Improvement can be subjective and slow, so we made FRQuick to give you the best grading possible, 100% free!
Pick a subject and question type, paste your prompt and essay, and add a passage, poem, or sources when the rubric calls for them. Most drafts come back in about 30 seconds with scores, quoted highlights, and notes on what to fix.
What we grade
Each question type maps to a published AP-style rubric. More formats are on the way; email us if you need one that is not listed yet.
AP English Literature
- Prose Analysis
- Poetry Analysis
- Literary Argument
AP English Language
- Synthesis
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Argumentative
AP History (US, Euro, World)
- DBQ
- LEQ
Generic (non-AP classes)
- Argumentative
- Persuasive
- Analytical
How scoring works
After you submit, we grade your essay with a class-specific rubric and specific tips on how to grade for that class so the score stays fair and consistent. We always use the rubric that matches the subject and essay type you picked, so a history DBQ is not graded the same way as an English rhetorical analysis.
You get a breakdown by rubric category, feedback tied to quotes in your essay, and suggestions for the next draft.
How we measure accuracy
The numbers on our homepage come from an internal benchmark: real AP-style essays scored by humans, then graded again by FRQuick with the same published rubrics.
Our headline stat is average QWK (0.88 across 141 human-graded essays on validated rubrics). QWK (Quadratic Weighted Kappa) measures how closely two graders agree, adjusting for chance. Learnosity's guide classifies 0.80+ as almost perfect agreement and 0.61–0.80 as substantial agreement. We also track how often our total lands within one point of the human score and the average point difference.
- AP English Language — Argument — 18 human-graded essays; QWK 0.94; 100% within ±1 point; 0.22 pt average error.
- AP English Language — Synthesis — 19 human-graded essays; QWK 0.85; 94.7% within ±1 point; 0.53 pt average error; 1 essays off by 2+ points.
- AP English Literature — Literary Argument — 26 human-graded essays; QWK 0.83; 100% within ±1 point; 0.52 pt average error.
- AP History — Long Essay (LEQ) — 30 human-graded essays; QWK 0.89; 91.7% within ±1 point; 0.47 pt average error; 2 essays off by 2+ points.
- AP History — Document-Based Question (DBQ) — 48 human-graded essays; QWK 0.89; 91.7% within ±1 point; 0.60 pt average error; 4 essays off by 2+ points.
These are practice-calibration checks on our internal dev set, not independent validation or official College Board certification. Sample sizes vary by essay type, and we only publish numbers for rubrics we have benchmarked thoroughly. Other question types are graded with the same rubrics but are still being evaluated.
What published research on automated essay scoring shows
Automated essay scoring has been studied for decades, but AP-style analytic rubrics — short scales, multiple traits, small validation sets — are a harder case than generic holistic grading. Three ideas show up repeatedly in the field literature:
- Stahl et al. (BEA 2024): Automated essay scoring research finds that asking a model to produce rubric-grounded rationale before committing to a score improves agreement with human raters compared with score-first prompting.
- Doewes et al. (EDM 2023): Quadratic Weighted Kappa (QWK) is the standard metric for ordinal essay scores, but it is sensitive to score distribution and sample size — small validation sets need adjacent-agreement and error rates reported alongside kappa.
- College Board AP FRQ rubrics: AP Lang, Lit, and History free-response questions use published analytic rubrics (thesis, evidence/commentary, sophistication for English; thesis, contextualization, evidence, reasoning for History) scored by trained readers each June.
FRQuick publishes its own calibration benchmark on this page so students can judge practice feedback against human-graded AP essays — not against marketing claims alone.
Common questions
Important info
- FRQuick is not affiliated with the College Board or Advanced Placement. AP is a registered trademark of the College Board.
- Scores here are practice estimates. They follow published rubrics, but they are not official AP exam results. Your teacher still has the last word.
- We store submissions so you can reopen results and browse history. We do not sell essay text or use it to train models. See the privacy policy for details.
- The grader reads pasted text only. You can describe a chart or image in words, but we do not accept image uploads yet.
- We follow the College Board's terms of service and do not use College Board materials to train AI. If the College Board raises a concern, we will work with them to fix it.
Questions, rubric requests, or bugs? team@frquick.com