iScore5: Mobile AP Test Prep App
Role: User Experience Design Contractor
overview
My teacher from high school approached me with an idea to make studying for the AP Human Geography Exam fun, easy, and accessible. He partnered with two other geography teachers and hired me as a designer to help build iScore5, a gamified AP test prep app for students. I spent one year working with a developer on version 1.0 of the app for iOS that was released to the Apple Store in March 2015. This app functions as a trivia game split into five levels, to replicate the score-values on AP exams. Each level offers students authentic exam questions, written by Human Geo teachers, for points, whose scores can be compared with others who are playing.
After 7,000 downloads and a significant amount of positive feedback, iScore5 has now expanded to include a version for AP Psychology and is also available for Android on Google Play. I have continued to work with the team to redesign and rebrand their promotional website.
“After using the iScore5 app, I saw a full 10 point rise on what my student had been getting (and what I had projected her at) to what she actually got.”
