Accuracy
95%
of our grades within 1 point
of a real AP score
For AP teachers
More practice essays, without the Sunday‑night stack.
- Free for single essays
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“After I’ve read a batch of essays, I run them through your service because it will occasionally highlight things I myself overlooked.”
why teachers use it
2 hoursto grade one class set of 30 essays at four minutes each
So most AP classes write fewer timed essays than students need, because feedback can only come back as fast as one person can read. FRQuick takes the drafts you were never going to get to.
Drafts
Let students burn their first draft on the machine
The draft you get is their second one. Students submit, read the rubric-row breakdown, and revise first, so your comments can go to argument and evidence instead of a missing thesis.
Volume
Assign more practice than you could grade
There's no per-essay cost to you, and each essay comes back in about 15 seconds. How often students practice stops depending on your evenings.
Rubrics
Show students what a rubric row rewards
Every score comes with its reasoning and quoted lines from the student's own essay, so they can see why their evidence got two points instead of three.
Catch-up
Cover make-up work and independent study
A student who missed the timed write, or wants extra reps before May, still gets rubric feedback. Nothing new lands on your desk.
try it yourself
Paste one of your prompts and a student essay. Pick one you've already scored and you can hold our marks up against yours. No account needed.
After I’ve read a batch of essays, I run them through your service because it will occasionally highlight things I myself overlooked. I sometimes find myself boosting a grade based on FRQuick’s score if it convinces me I was too harsh in my application of the rubric.
I really like how consistent the scoring is. I’ve tried other AI programs and their application of the rubric varies widely (I’ve seen Grok, GPT, and Claude all give the same essay different scores and score another essay of similar strength widely differently). … I especially appreciate how, unlike the previously mentioned platforms, FRQuick doesn’t flippantly award the sophistication point for a sentence or two that’s added as an afterthought and not integrated into the student’s argument.
FRQuick Classroom
grade a whole class set
For the essays you'd grade anyway. Save the prompt once and paste the whole set. Before you plan tomorrow's lesson, you'll know which rubric rows most of the class missed.
- Step 1
Save the assignment once
Prompt, passage or documents, and the rubric. Reuse it for every period.
- Step 2
Paste the whole class set
One box, a line of three dashes between essays. Names come out before grading.
- Step 3
See what to reteach
Every essay scored row by row, plus the rubric rows most of the class missed.
Up to 60 essays in one paste. Grading keeps going if you close the tab.
Names removed before grading. Names, periods, and dates at the top of each essay are stripped first, and you see what came out.
See what to reteach. A class summary of the rubric rows most students missed, next to every essay's row-by-row score.
Know which essays to read closely. Essays that land near a score boundary are marked Check first.
Reuse assignments across periods. Save the prompt, passage or documents, and rubric once, then duplicate it for the next section.
Export to your gradebook. Download every score as a CSV. Class essays stay private to your account.
A sample class, as you'd see it
AP Lang, Period 3: Unit 2 Rhetorical Analysis: commencement address
Class summary
Most of the class wrote a defensible thesis and chose relevant evidence from the address. The gap is in commentary: many essays quote well but stop before explaining how a choice serves the speaker's purpose. Only a handful looked at the speech as a whole, which is where sophistication comes from.
Where points were lost
Evidence & Commentary
21 of 25 essays lost points here
Quotations are followed by a device label or a paraphrase instead of an explanation of the effect on the audience.
Sophistication
22 of 25 essays lost points here
Essays analyze each choice in isolation and never step back to the speech's larger move from celebration to warning.
Thesis
3 of 25 essays lost points here
A few openings restate the prompt without making a claim about the speaker's choices.
| What to work on | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 1 | 1/1 | 3/4 | 0/1 | 4/6 | Sophistication: Explain why these appeals would land with new nurses at a graduation, given what they are about to face. |
| Essay 2 | 1/1 | 2/4 | 0/1 | 3/6 | Evidence & Commentary: After each quotation, explain how that word choice moves the graduates toward the speaker's purpose. |
| Essay 3 | 0/1 | 1/4 | 0/1 | 1/6 | Thesis: Your opening restates the prompt. Add a claim about what the speaker wants the graduates to do and how she moves them there. |
| Essay 4 | 1/1 | 3/4 | 0/1 | 4/6 | Sophistication: Trace how the tone shifts from celebration to warning, and explain why the speaker saves the warning for the end. |
| Essay 5 | 1/1 | 4/4 | 1/1 | 6/6 | Full marks |
Set up my classroom
Grading single essays is free. The classroom is a paid add-on, and you'll see pricing before you pay.
no nonsense numbers
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Agreement
0.88
average QWK*
across 141 human-graded essays
Precision
0.50
average MAE**
points off vs human scores
across 141 human-graded essays
Volume
essays graded
and counting
Across 141 human-graded AP essays in FRQuick’s published June 2026 benchmark, scores landed within one point of a trained reader 95% of the time (average QWK 0.88, mean absolute error 0.50 points).
* QWK (Quadratic Weighted Kappa) measures how closely our scores match human AP graders. Our average QWK is 0.88 across 141 human-graded AP essays. Learnosity classifies 0.80+ as almost perfect agreement. Read more about our benchmarks.
** MAE (Mean Absolute Error) is the average number of points our total score differs from a human AP score. Our average MAE is 0.50 points across 141 human-graded AP essays. Lower is better.