AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Tutoring for the May Exam
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism is abstract in a way mechanics is not: fields, flux and potential cannot be seen, and the calculus has to be set up from the physical situation before it can be done. Students who integrate well in a maths class often stall here, because the hard step is choosing the surface, the path or the limits, not carrying out the integral.
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AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism is offered online, one-to-one or in a group class.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 65 per lesson; the group course runs 50 lessons of 90 minutes for USD 1,755, and a class never takes more than 6 students.
Group classes next begin on 18 September 2027.
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Your lessons are taught by Ali Ertan, who teaches AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism.
- 2 scored components, from AP Central
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
- From USD 65 per lesson
How AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism is assessed
Set and scored by College Board and reported on the 1–5 AP scale. Each university sets its own rule on which scores earn credit or placement. Component names are as College Board prints them.
College Board
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism · AP Central exam page
| Component | Share of score | Length | What it involves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Section I: Multiple Choice | 50% | 1 hour 25 min | 42 questions in 85 minutes (from May 2027; previously 40 in 80), either standalone or in sets built on a shared stimulus or data set. A four-function, scientific or graphing calculator is allowed, as is the Desmos calculator in Bluebook, and College Board’s equation tables are provided. |
| Section II: Free Response | 50% | 1 hour 35 min | 4 questions in 95 minutes (previously 100), one of each type: mathematical routines, translation between representations, experimental design and analysis, and qualitative/quantitative translation, with calculus used where the physics calls for it. Answers are handwritten in a paper booklet. |
- Hybrid exam: answers are entered in Bluebook for multiple choice and handwritten in a paper booklet for free response.
- 2027 exam date: 5 May 2027.
Checked on 8 October 2026
College Board revises individual exams between years. The exam page linked above is the authority for your sitting.
The AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism syllabus
Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper and in the mark scheme.
Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss’s Law (15–25%)
Electric Charge and Electric Force · Electric Fields · Electric Fields of Charge Distributions · Electric Flux · Gauss’s Law
Unit 9: Electric Potential (10–20%)
Electric Potential Energy · Electric Potential · Conservation of Electric Energy
Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors (10–15%)
Electrostatics with Conductors · Redistribution of Charge Between Conductors · Capacitors · Dielectrics
Unit 11: Electric Circuits (15–25%)
Electric Current · Resistance, Resistivity, and Ohm’s Law · Compound Direct Current Circuits · Kirchhoff’s Loop Rule · Kirchhoff’s Junction Rule · Resistor-Capacitor (RC) Circuits
Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism (10–20%)
Magnetic Fields · Magnetism and Moving Charges · Magnetic Fields of Current-Carrying Wires and the Biot-Savart Law · Ampère’s Law
Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction (10–20%)
Magnetic Flux · Electromagnetic Induction · Induced Currents and Magnetic Forces · Inductance · Circuits with Resistors and Inductors (LR Circuits) · Circuits with Capacitors and Inductors (LC Circuits)
Where AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism marks are usually lost
Flux integrals set up blindly
Gauss’s law questions reward choosing a sensible Gaussian surface and writing the flux integral that belongs to it. In 2025 readers saw responses that calculated the volume of the Gaussian surface instead of its area, mixed up linear, surface and volume charge densities, or left out the limits of integration. They advise physical limits rather than arbitrary ones, and integrating before substituting them, so every stage stays visible.
An emf that never oscillates
College Board’s readers advise setting aside enough time for electromagnetic induction. In 2025, in a problem about a loop rotating in a magnetic field, responses described an induced emf growing steadily with time instead of varying periodically, and some Faraday’s law derivations listed unrelated expressions from the reference information. Sketching flux and emf against time, then starting the derivation from Faraday’s law itself, avoids both errors.
Meters wired in the wrong place
The experimental question tests practical knowledge that is hard to fake. In 2025 readers noted voltmeters and ammeters placed incorrectly, a surface area used where the cross-sectional area of a resistor was needed, and measuring confused with calculating, as in using a ruler to “measure the area”. Students who have wired a real circuit, or worked carefully through a circuit simulation, recognise these traps quickly.
How we teach AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
A tutor makes sure the calculus serves the physics rather than getting in its way. Before Gauss’s law or the Biot–Savart law, the student practises setting up integrals over lines, surfaces and volumes with physical limits, and learns when symmetry makes an integral unnecessary. Each unit pairs a field picture — field lines, equipotentials, flux through a surface — with the equation that describes it, so that conductors, capacitors and dielectrics are understood rather than memorised. Circuits with resistors, capacitors and inductors are taught through the differential equations that govern them and the curves they produce, exponential or oscillating, sketched before they are solved. Induction is given sufficient time, as College Board’s readers advise. Released free-response questions are marked against the scoring guidelines, with every derivation starting from an equation on the reference information.
There is no separate diagnostic, because there is no single test that stands in for two years of a school syllabus. The first lesson is the assessment: the tutor works through your recent marked work, past-paper questions from your own specification, and the units your school has already covered, and reads current level, gaps, exam technique and where school work stands. It is a normal paid lesson and it teaches as it assesses.
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