AP Statistics New Syllabus - For the School Year -2026-2027
What’s Changing in AP Statistics for the \(26\!\!-\!\!27\) School Year?
The College Board has released a revised course framework for AP Statistics, streamlining the course and reshaping the exam beginning in May \(2027\). The draft reduces the number of units from \(9\) to \(5\), rearranges the order of topics, replaces “course skills” with “statistical practices,” removes several topics, and adds a new learning objective centered on formulating an investigative question.
How is the AP Exam Changing?
Multiple-Choice
- \(42\) questions (instead of \(40\)).
- \(4\) answer choices per question (down from \(5\)).
Free-Response (\(4\) questions)
- One FRQ focused on Practice \(1\): Formulate Questions and Practice \(2\): Collect Data.
- One FRQ focused on Practice \(3\): Analyze Data and Practice \(4\): Interpret Results.
- One FRQ focused on inference skills associated with Practices \(2\!\!-\!\!4\).
- One FRQ integrating Practices \(2\!\!-\!\!4\) across multiple content areas.
Each FRQ is worth \(10\) points.
What is in the Revised Course Framework?
| New Proposed Framework (Units \(1\!\!-\!\!5\)) | Current CED Mapping |
|---|---|
| Unit \(1\): Exploring One-Variable Data & Collecting Data | Unit \(1\): Exploring One-Variable Data; Unit \(3\): Collecting Data |
| Unit \(2\): Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions | Unit \(2\): Two-Variable Data; Unit \(4\): Probability, Random Variables & Distributions; Unit \(5\): Sampling Distributions |
| Unit \(3\): Inference for Categorical Data — Proportions | Unit \(5\): Sampling Distributions; Unit \(6\): Inference for Categorical Data — Proportions; Unit \(8\): Inference for Categorical Data — Chi-Square |
| Unit \(4\): Inference for Quantitative Data — Means | Unit \(5\): Sampling Distributions; Unit \(7\): Inference for Quantitative Data — Means |
| Unit \(5\): Regression Analysis | Unit \(2\): Two-Variable Data |
| Not included as a separate unit in the revision: Inference for Quantitative Data — Slopes | Unit \(9\): Inference for Quantitative Data — Slopes |
Course Skills → Statistical Practices
The traditional “course skills” categories are being replaced by four Statistical Practices adapted from GAISE:
- Formulate Questions
- Collect Data
- Analyze Data
- Interpret Results
What Content Has Been Removed?
- Outliers, high-leverage points, and influential points
- Analyzing departures from linearity
- Geometric distributions
- Combining random variables
- Chi-square goodness-of-fit test
- Inference for slope
What Content Has Been Added?
- New learning objective: determine an investigative question within a statistical study \((1.1.B)\).
How IITian Academy Will Support You
IITian Academy will track all AP Statistics updates and align lessons, homework, assessments, and question banks to the \(26\!\!-\!\!27\) framework and the May \(2027\) exam format. As the official details evolve, we’ll keep this page updated and curate practice sets that reflect the new emphasis on the four Statistical Practices.