AP World History

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AP World History

• Multiple Choice Exam

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General Facts

• The Advanced Placement World History exam
  consists of two equally weighted sections.
• Section one is the Multiple Choice section with
  70 questions that must be completed in 55
  minutes.
• Section Two is a Free Response or essay section
  consisting of three essays that must be written
  in 120 minutes after a 10 minute reading period.
• There is one Document Based Question (DBQ), one
  Change over Time (COT) and one Comparative essay
  (COMP).

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Facts

• Multiple choice is 50 of the total score
• 70 questions in 55 minutes
• 1 point if correct, .25 off if incorrect
• Each year the College Board uses a sliding scale
  and changes the number of correct questions and
  overall score needed to make each of the 5 broad
  marks.
• Set a goal to get 35 points
• This will probably get you a 3 or higher

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Coverage

• The multiple choice questions will cover the
  curriculum as outlined in the course description
• Unit 1 Foundations (8000 BCE 600 CE) (19-20)
• Unit 2 Post Classical (600 1450) (22)
• Unit 3 World Network (1450 1750) (19-20)
• Unit 4 Industrialization (1750 1914) (19-20)
• Unit 5 Modern Era (1914 Present)(19-20)
• Questions will go in chronological order from
  1 35, then repeat for 36-70.
• Many questions will be also be cross period and
  compare different civilizations, or how they
  changed over time.

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Strategies

• In order to receive a score high enough to earn
  college credit, you do not have to answer all the
  questions correctly.
• Some questions are designed for most students to
  miss. They range from 10 90 correct
• Many students dont show what they know because
  they dont know how to work the questions
• Get rid of bad answers
• Find correct answer in short period of time.

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How to Show What you Know

• Remember
• Do not spend to much time on any one question.
• Finishing is not the goal accuracy is.
• 4 out of 5 answers you read are wrong.
• If you do not know the answer right away, or if
  the question looks too difficult, skip it and
  come back to it later.

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Guessing

• Loose ¼ point for wrong answer
• Smart guesses can increase your score
• Try to eliminate at least two incorrect answers.
• If you can, the odds are in your favor.

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Skipping

• Skipping saves you time
• 70 questions in 55 minutes
• Use the whole time, more time for harder
  questions
• Look for the easy questions first
• Dont spend too long deliberating
• Dont answer harder questions first time through
• Skip to get to the questions you know
• Come back later to make a good guess or leave
  blank

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Finishing is the goal

• Find the pace you work efficiently without
  sacrificing accuracy
• Dont dawdle or zip through
• You set the pace
• 70 questions in 55 minutes is a good pace if you
  can maintain accuracy.
• Remember you will go back to check the questions
  you skip later.

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Four out of Five are Bad

• AP Exam writers first formulate the question,
  then craft the correct answer.
• Still must come up with 4 incorrect answers
• They try to come up with distracters
• Closely related facts, partly correct
• Instead of looking for correct answer 1st, assume
  each answer is wrong and cross it off, use the
  process of elimination.

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Step by Step Process

• 1. Read the Question
• 2. Ask When? Who? What?
• 3. Process of Elimination
• 4. Answer or skip to next question
• 5. Use all 55 minutes to go over questions, you
  may go over the questions 3 or 4 times.

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Read the Question

• What are they asking?
• Rephrase the question in your own words
• Sometimes other questions can help you find the
  answer on another question.

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When? Who? What?

• What time period are you in?
• Who is involved?
• What is going on?
• Do this before you look at the answers
• Call up any relevant history that you know
• If you know a lot, focus on correct answer
• If not, still try and get rid of wrong answers

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Process of Elimination

• Look for what makes an answer wrong
• Cross off the choices you know are wrong
• Leave the ones you think are right or the ones
  you are uncertain

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Skip and Go

• Narrow down the choices as far as you can go
• Can you identify the correct answer?
• If yes pick it
• If not skip and go
• Dont spend too long trying to figure out which
  choice is right
• Remember question number 70 could be the easiest
  question on the test and one you know the answer
  for.