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For reporters, editors, and podcast producers covering AP® exams, AI in grading, and how students learn to write. You may quote anything on this page with attribution to Fiveable.
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Last reviewed October 15, 2026.
About Fiveable
Fiveable is an AP®-only learning platform built by former AP teachers. Teachers use it to score their students' free-response answers on the official AP rubric with AI, then review and approve every score before students see it. Students use it to study and practice all 42 AP subjects. Schools get rostered accounts and signed data privacy agreements. Fiveable was founded in 2018 by former AP teacher and AP Reader Amanda DoAmaral and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fiveable is not affiliated with or endorsed by the College Board.
Founder
Amanda DoAmaral is the founder of Fiveable, an AP-only learning platform built by former AP teachers. She taught AP World History and AP Human Geography in Oakland, California, and has scored AP World History exams as an AP Reader. She started Fiveable in Milwaukee in 2018 to give every AP student the same quality of preparation.
Today teachers use Fiveable to score students' free-response answers on the official AP rubric with AI, reviewing and approving every score themselves. Fiveable publishes original data on AP writing, including which rubric points students miss most.
Short bio
Amanda DoAmaral is the founder of Fiveable. She taught AP World History and AP Human Geography in Oakland, California, and has scored AP World History exams as an AP Reader.
What Amanda can speak to
- How AP free-response questions are scored, and what AP Readers look for
- Which AP rubric points students miss most, and how teachers teach them
- AI in grading and feedback: where it helps, where teachers stay in charge
- AP exam changes, including digital testing in Bluebook and new courses
- AP score releases and what scores mean for college credit
- How AP teachers and students prepare in the months before the May exams
- Building an education company as a former teacher, from Milwaukee
Data you can cite
Each dataset page explains its method and limits and has a citation line. Two include a CSV.
The AP® FRQ Rubric Points Students Miss Most
Across 68,476 scored AP free-response answers in 18 subjects, the most-missed rubric point was AP English Literature Prose Analysis Essay, Sophistication: students earned 5% of the points available.
Fiveable users, not a random sample of AP students. Rubric-based practice and classroom scores, not AP exam scores. Updated October 15, 2026; method and CSV on the page.
AI FRQ scoring quality
96.2% of AP® FRQ responses that teachers reviewed one at a time kept Fiveable's score exactly as given.
This is what teachers decided in real classrooms, not an independent accuracy study, and it is not a comparison with College Board scoring.
AP score survey results
In our 2026 voluntary survey, 96.5% of reported AP scores were a 3 or higher.
A voluntary, self-reported survey of Fiveable users. It is not a national pass rate or a measure of Fiveable's effect.
Logos
Keep the wordmark and the 5 inside the speech bubble, and don't recolor or stretch them. PNGs have transparent backgrounds.
Product screenshots
A teacher reviews an AI-scored essay
Each rubric point shows the score and the reason. The teacher can override any point, then approves the score before the student sees it.
A class set, scored and approved
Scores for a class's AP World History DBQ, with each response's approval status. Student names are fictional.
A student practices an AP free-response question
Timed practice on an AP World History long essay question, typed or handwritten.
Earlier coverage
- TechCrunch, 2021: Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’
- TechCrunch, 2021: Fiveable makes first acquisition: A virtual study tool built by a 16-year-old
- Radio Milwaukee, 2020: Milwaukee’s Fiveable secures $2.3 million to build the future of remote learning
- EdSurge, 2020: Fiveable Raises $615K Seed Round to Expand Livestream Tutoring Platform
- EdSurge, 2019: A Former Oakland Unified Teacher Now Helps Even More Students Pass AP Tests
Older articles describe services that have since changed, including live streams and earlier plans. See Fiveable facts for what’s current.
Describing Fiveable accurately
- Write the name as "Fiveable" (one word, capital F).
- Fiveable is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with the College Board. AP® is a trademark of the College Board.
- Fiveable's FRQ scores are rubric-based estimates for practice and classwork, not official AP scores.
- In classrooms, the teacher reviews and approves each AI score before students see it. The teacher owns the grade.
- Livestreams ended in 2024. Plans and prices are on the facts page; older articles may describe plans that no longer exist.