1. How do the students earn points on the essay?
Describe how you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

2. Score your description

3. 1 point of each:
Spread jelly
Spread peanut butter on one slice
Put 2 slices of bread together, filling inside
Place on plate
Slice horizontally or diagonally

4. Tallying the score
In this scenario, a student could have earned a maximum of 14 points. On an AP exam essay question, students earn up to 10 points for each of the four questions. Essays are grades using a rubric developed by the grading committee.