Hey all! I recently finished taking 14 APs and have gotten all 4s and 5s and I wanted to come and rank everything I used to teach myself the content. I’ve seen a ton of posts about mcq tools but I think writing is just as important and way harder to teach yourself without the proper help. 

S tier:
Chief reader reports - They’re posted for free on Collegeboard’s AP mainpage and they break down every FRQ each year with common mistakes which is super useful for studying with old tests and knowing how the AP graders view your responses.

FRQuick.com - It’s the only fully free website i found from a reddit post on here that grades essays. It has support for every AP English and history class and it provides a ton of feedback for each essay which makes it super useful. I made an account so I could save my results over time, but you don’t have to make one either.

A tier:
APfrqs.com - The best way to study is just to do a ton of practice, and this website has every past AP FRQ for the last ten years which makes it super easy to find and do practice FRQs
(it also has the chief reader reports).

(Not my site or promotion, just free tools I've found helpful)

D tier:
GradewithAI and COgrader - I tried to use both of these but they seemed much more teacher-centered compared to the other study methods I used like FRQuick which are actually made for students to use. They also were super pushy about getting paid versions which was just annoying.

F tier:
Not studying - A lot of my friends wouldn’t do practice or would only do practice FRQs when our teachers assigned it to them and they were definitely less prepared than I was going into the actual test.

All in all it’s just most important to do practice regularly in order to really feel comfortable on test day. Please let me know if you have any questions about the ones I listed above or other tools, I tried a lot more and I’d love to answer questions!