Live teaching three times a week, six practice sessions, office hours on your teen’s own schoolwork, and help on any stuck problem the same day — on whatever schedule their week allows.
Taught by our team of experienced AP coaches — founded by Allen Tsao (Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley & Stanford).
| 2026 AP Physics 1 Exam Scores |
5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Students | 60% | 33% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| National Average | 19% | 24% | 25% | 15% | 17% |
AP Physics rewards a process, not memorization. For each unit — and each type of problem within it — we teach a clear, step-by-step way to work through it. So whatever shows up on the exam, students know exactly how to start. We cover all eight units from the ground up:
Start free, or pick the level of help your teen needs: can they do this on their own, do they need feedback, or do they need a person? The live classes, practice sessions and Success Coach on this page are Personal Performance Coaching.
Students who need direction. Unit Playbooks with a week-by-week plan and the video lessons for every unit, so your student knows exactly what to study and when.
Get the Free RoadmapStudents who can follow a plan on their own. Everything your student needs to know what to study and practice it independently.
Start Self-StudyStudents who need feedback, but not a tutor every week. The system finds what your student is getting wrong and tells them what to do next.
Allen-trained AI. Trained by Allen on hundreds of hours of his teaching material and problem-solving strategies, so it checks how your student attacked the problem, not just the final answer.
Get Personalized FeedbackStudents who need accountability and a person's judgment. The highest-support path, for families who want someone making sure the work gets done correctly before the exam.
See if we're a fit See everything that's included →Coaching starts with $500 for the first 30 days. If you continue after the 30 days, the remaining $3,100 covers everything through the AP exam, $3,600 in all. Nothing more is charged unless you decide to keep going.
Waiting doesn't get you a better deal. The price is the same in September and in February, so every month you wait just buys less program, and leaves more for your teen to close on their own. April is genuinely too late to start.
It comes down to one question: can your teen do this on their own, do they need feedback, or do they need a person?
Unit Playbooks (free) give direction: a week-by-week plan and the video lessons for every unit. The Exam Preparation System ($897) is for a student who studies without being reminded and mostly needs practice: every problem with a video solution, plus the real AP multiple-choice and free-response questions. The Personalized Score Accelerator ($1,597) adds AI feedback on your teen's own work, for a student who does the work but keeps losing points and can't say why. Personal Performance Coaching ($3,600) adds a person: a Success Coach, live classes and practice sessions, and an instructor reviewing their work, for a student who needs accountability. Compare all four side by side.
That's our default assumption at every level. The lessons are built for students with no physics background and teach everything from the ground up, with a step-by-step method for every unit. The only prerequisites are solid algebra and geometry.
The Exam Preparation System and the Personalized Score Accelerator are the Study Portal on its own: lessons, practice, AP questions and, in the Accelerator, AI feedback. Your teen works through it on their own schedule. Personal Performance Coaching includes all of that plus people: a Success Coach who builds the plan and checks in, live teaching lessons and practice sessions, office hours on their own schoolwork, an instructor who reviews their work, and progress updates for you. It isn't one-on-one tutoring; it's small-group live classes with individual attention where it matters.
Yes, at every level, and the price is the same whenever you start, so waiting never saves you anything. Everything is organized unit by unit, so a student who joins mid-year starts with the unit their class is on, or the one they need to rebuild. The one real deadline is April: by then there isn't enough runway left for AP Physics 1, and we'd rather say so.
The two self-study plans are one payment each, $897 or $1,597, and last through the May AP exam window (access ends May 31). They're not a subscription and nothing renews. Personal Performance Coaching is $3,600 through the AP exam and starts with $500 for the first 30 days; nothing more is charged unless you choose to continue. There are no payment plans at any level. Coaching's full terms are on the Personal Performance Coaching page.
Yes. Not sure which level is right? Start with the one that fits today. If your teen needs more support within 30 days, we'll credit 100% of what you paid toward the next level, so you only pay the difference.
It isn't a general-purpose chatbot. Allen trained it on hundreds of hours of his teaching material and the problem-solving strategies he teaches for every unit, so it looks at how your teen set up and attacked the problem, not just whether the final number matched. In Personal Performance Coaching, an instructor reviews their work too.
Yes. Everything follows the official AP Physics 1 unit order, and each unit stands on its own, so your teen can work on whatever their class is covering this week. In Personal Performance Coaching, the Success Coach builds the plan around their actual class and office hours cover their own homework and tests.
That's what makes AP Physics 1 hard — and it's why the best week to start is this one. Live teaching, live practice, office hours on their own schoolwork, and help on any stuck problem the same day, from now through the AP exam.
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