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A.P. World History Exam

 

Exam Format​- 3 hours and 15 minutes.  The AP Exam questions measure students' knowledge of World History and their ability to think historically.  Questions are based on learning objectives, key concepts, course themes, and AP history disciplinary practices and reasoning skills.

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Section 1A: Multiple Choice 

55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of Exam Score

  • Questions usually appear in sets of 3–4 questions.

  • Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.

  • Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.

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Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Resources

          -How to answer the Stimulus Based MC questions video?

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Section 1B: Short Answer

3 Questions | 40 Minutes | 20% of Exam Score

  • Students analyze historians’ interpretations, historical sources, and propositions about history.

  • Questions provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know best.

  • Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps.

  • Students choose between 2 options for the final required short-answer question, each one focusing on a different time period:

    • Question 1 is required, includes 1 secondary source, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1200 and 2001.

    • Question 2 is required, includes 1 primary source, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1200 and 2001.

    • Students choose between Question 3 (which focuses on historical developments or between the years 1200 and 1750) and Question 4 (which focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1750 and 2001) for the last question. No sources are included for either Question 3 or Question 4.

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Short Answer Resources

          -How to write the Short Answer questions video?

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Section 2A: Document-Based Question 

1 Question | 1 Hour (includes 15-minute reading period) | 25% of Exam Score

  • Students are presented with 7 documents offering various perspectives on a historical development or process.

  • Students assess these written, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence.

  • Students develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.

  • The document-based question focuses on topics from 1450–2001.

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DBQ Resources

          -Instruction/Point handout

          -Thesis/POV or Not

          -POV or Not

          -How to write a DBQ video?

          -Plan of Action

          -Power words for writing

          -DBQ grading rubric

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Section 2B: Long Essay 

1 Question | 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score

  • Students explain and analyze significant issues in world history.

  • Students develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.

  • The question choices focus on the same skills and the same reasoning process (e.g., comparison, causation, or continuity and change), but students choose from 3 options, each focusing primarily on historical developments and processes in different time periods—either 1200–1750 (option 1), 1450–1900 (option 2), or 1750–2001 (option 3).

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Long Essay Resources

          -How to write the Long Essay video?

          -LEQ Rubric

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