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AP Psychology · 2024 CED

Pacing calculator

Type in the instructional days on your county's calendar. The calculator sets aside review and buffer days, then splits the rest across these units in proportion to the 2024 Course and Exam Description's unit weightings.

How the numbers are made
  1. Teaching days are your instructional days minus review and buffer days.
  2. Research Methods comes off the top. The 2024 CED folded research methods and statistics into the Science Practices, which are assessed inside every unit, so Unit 1 gets a flat share of teaching days instead of an exam-weighted slice.
  3. The rest splits by CED unit. All five CED units carry a 15–25% exam weighting. Each one's days are divided evenly across its topics, and each site unit collects the days for the topics it teaches. That's how a mixed unit like Sensation & Perception (CED 1.6 and 2.1) draws from two CED units.
  4. Split topics. Psychoactive drugs sit inside CED 1.3, so a quarter of 1.3 goes to U2B and the rest to U2A. Language (3.5) rides with Thinking in U5B.
  5. Whole days. Totals are rounded so they add up exactly to your instructional days, so nothing is lost to rounding. Each unit's days include its test day.
  6. Self-guided U7. Its days go back to every other unit in proportion, so CED 4 and 5 fall under their 15% floor in class time and the assignment has to carry that weight.
  7. Social Psychology (CED 4.1–4.3) has no unit on this site yet, but it's on the exam, so it keeps its share here.

Source: AP Psychology Course and Exam Description, effective Fall 2024. Hover a row's CED codes for the topic titles.

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CED unit weightings

The CED gives every unit a 15–25% band of the multiple-choice section, so the default is an even 20% each. Lean a unit up or down within its band; the calculator rescales so the five always total 100%.

Suggested days per unit

The bar is each unit's slice of teaching days, in %. Together they fill the Σ row's bar. The days are the same numbers, rounded to whole days.

  1. U1Research Methods & Statistical AnalysisScience Practices · every unitdays
  2. U2AThe Biological Basis of BehaviorCED 1.1 · 1.2 · 1.3 (part) · 1.4 · 13 lessonsdays
  3. U2BStates of Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, and DrugsCED 1.3 (part) · 1.5 · 2 lessonsdays
  4. U3Sensation & PerceptionCED 1.6 · 2.1 · 9 lessonsdays
  5. U4Learning TheoryCED 3.7–3.9 · 8 lessonsdays
  6. U5AMemoryCED 2.3–2.7 · 8 lessonsdays
  7. U5BThinking and LanguageCED 2.2 · 3.5 · 10 lessonsdays
  8. U5CIntelligence and TestingCED 2.8 · 3 lessonsdays
  9. U6Developmental PsychologyCED 3.1–3.4 · 3.6 · 9 lessonsdays
  10. U7Motivation, Emotion, Stress & Health / PersonalityCED 4.4–4.7 · 5.1 · 5.2 · 0 lessonsdays
  11. –Social PsychologyCED 4.1–4.3These days stay in the plan. There is no unit on this site yet, so place them yourself.days
  12. U8Clinical Psychology (Abnormal & Treatment)CED 5.3–5.5 · 8 lessonsdays
  13. ΣTeaching days, all units abovedays
  14. +AP reviewdays
  15. +Bufferdays
  16. =Instructional daysdays
Class time by CED unit
  • CED 1Biological Bases of Behavior
  • CED 2Cognition
  • CED 3Development and Learning
  • CED 4Social Psychology and Personality
  • CED 5Mental and Physical Health
Put it on your calendar
Meets onPick 1, 3, 5 for an A/B block schedule.

Subscribes to one event per class day, linked to the public unit pages. Buffer days stay blank. Changes reach Google Calendar within a day. If Google does not add it, use Copy link, then Settings, Add calendar, From URL.

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