About FRQuick
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.
What is FRQuick?
FRQuick is a free AI-powered grading tool for AP Free Response Question (FRQ) practice. It is not an official College Board grader. Students get unlimited free grading: paste an essay, pick a subject and question type, and receive rubric-aligned scores and feedback in about 15 seconds with no signup required. Supported formats include AP English Language, AP English Literature, AP US History, AP European History, and AP World History (DBQ and LEQ), plus a generic essay mode. Feedback breaks down published rubric rows such as thesis, evidence, commentary, source use, and sophistication where the rubric applies, with inline highlights on the essay. Students can revise and re-grade in a tight practice loop. An optional free account adds essay history, progress tracking, and focus practice. FRQuick publishes internal accuracy benchmarks on its About page. Scores are practice estimates, not exam results.
Who builds FRQuick
FRQuick was built by Alexander Ting and Jack Schmidt, two high school seniors who have taken a combined 29 AP exams.
Alexander Ting Co-founder, FRQuick
Alexander Ting is a co-founder of FRQuick, working on growing the site and improving its core rubric-aligned grading for AP Lang, AP Lit, and AP History students to succeed.
Jack Schmidt Co-founder, FRQuick
Jack Schmidt is a co-founder of FRQuick, working on growing the site and improving its core rubric-aligned grading for AP Lang, AP Lit, and AP History students to succeed.
We publish how scoring works and our accuracy benchmarks so you can check the grader against real human-scored essays rather than take our word for it.
What's included with FRQuick
- Unlimited free grading, with scores in 15 seconds.
- Inline highlights on your essay tied to thesis, evidence, commentary, and more
- Revision loop: fix the draft, re-grade, and compare what changed
- Optional account for essay history, progress, and focus practice
→ AP Lang, Lit, US / Euro / World History, plus a generic essay mode
See the same feature overview on the homepage.
See our debut
FRQuick launched publicly in r/APStudents with a mod-approved post about a no-nonsense AP essay grader. It grades against the published rubric. A generic chatbot won't do that.
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 that already carried a human score, graded again by FRQuick with the same published rubrics.
What “human-graded” means here
Every essay in this benchmark arrived already scored, and we compare FRQuick's score to the human score that came with it. We did not recruit, train, or pay a rater panel of our own, and we did not re-score the essays ourselves. We do not publish who assigned those original scores, what training they had, or how many people read each essay, so read "human score" here as "the score the essay already carried", not as a certified inter-rater study.
Our headline stats across 141 human-graded essays: average QWK 0.88, 95% within ±1 point, and mean absolute error 0.50 points. QWK 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.
AP English Language Argument
- Essays
- 18
- QWK
- 0.94
- Within ±1 pt
- 100%
- Avg error
- 0.22 pt
No essays off by 2+ points
AP English Language Synthesis
- Essays
- 19
- QWK
- 0.85
- Within ±1 pt
- 94.7%
- Avg error
- 0.53 pt
1 essay off by 2+ points
AP English Literature Literary Argument
- Essays
- 26
- QWK
- 0.83
- Within ±1 pt
- 100%
- Avg error
- 0.52 pt
No essays off by 2+ points
AP History Long Essay (LEQ)
- Essays
- 30
- QWK
- 0.89
- Within ±1 pt
- 93.3%
- Avg error
- 0.47 pt
2 essays off by 2+ points
AP History Document-Based Question (DBQ)
- Essays
- 48
- QWK
- 0.89
- Within ±1 pt
- 91.7%
- Avg error
- 0.60 pt
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. AP-style analytic rubrics are a harder case than generic holistic grading, since they combine short scales, multiple traits, and small validation sets. 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 instead of 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, and FRQuick does not train models on it. Grading runs through our AI provider, DeepSeek. 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.
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Questions, rubric requests, or bugs? team@frquick.com