AP Exam Review - Fri May 10, 2024
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Format of Exam
Exam Format
The AP European History Exam has consistent question types, weighting, and scoring guidelines every year, so you and your students know what to expect on exam day.
Section I, Part A: 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.
Section I, Part B: 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 1–2 secondary sources, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1600 and 2001.
- Question 2 is required, includes 1 primary source, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1600 and 2001.
- Students choose between Question 3 (which focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1450 and 1815) and Question 4 (which focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1815 and 2001). No sources are included for either Question 3 or Question 4.
Section II: Document-Based Question and Long Essay
2 questions | 1 Hour, 40 minutes | 40% of Exam Score
Document-Based Question (DBQ)
Recommended time: 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 1600 to 2001.
Long Essay
Recommended time: 40 minutes | 15% of Exam Score
- Students explain and analyze significant issues in European 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 on historical developments and processes from a different range of time periods—either 1450–1700 (option 1), 1648–1914 (option 2), or 1815–2001 (option 3).
Period Reviews
Additional Help
Timeline
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_b1jDbaUuz8dR2ltQzpKjmrpZ8ALaVuGYK7eVWaOplY/edit?usp=sharing
Dates - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cfm3PokAJgllyoKnGMRYq6SD10PJnnJnEKaAhwDsIIw
Essential Vocab by Period https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tnpxhwNEiUMpNu0NfI4tU4egYgfdlYOEKb4mFMfaNwI
AP European History Rescue Pack Review 2018 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UhN64A2v9H2z7fzUyKafFYJjKf02mDwMaUqq6KEJ8cg/edit?usp=sharing
Crash Course Videos
The Renaissance –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufba_ZcoR0&index=22&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
The Atlantic Slave Trade –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=24
The French Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=29
The Industrial Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c&index=32&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
World War I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPZQ0LAlR4&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=36
World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE&index=38&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
The Cold War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=39
Decolonization and Nationalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sGTspaF4Y&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=40
Population, Sustainability, and Malthus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkW_i0bDpQ&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M&index=15
Luther and the Protestant Reformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8oIELbNxE&index=18&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M
Exam Tips - Writing - Multiple Choice
Practice Tests
https://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-european-history/
Rubrics by Tom Richey
May 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLwzMZ0YUDA&feature=youtu.be
EDpuzzle How to Write....
Join the class. Class code er0yx2
DBQ I https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/57dc25771f864f3024987912/watch
DBQ II https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/57dc25fb8fbcd1172d810154/watch
DBQ III https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/57dc283904b5aa9028b9c25d/watch
The DBQ prompt https://drive.google.com/a/phm.k12.in.us/file/d/0B62BDwguC9o6MV9KZlNIdmQ1dzhLbnZ2SUlKamxlbjhacFNV/view?usp=sharing
Thesis Statement Recipe
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xmmBH4sWylYa6OaS1gQiPpAvNDUdhWlDZiyV4J6Afvc/
LEQ Student Examples
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B62BDwguC9o6M3pqZkpMS1QycWs
European MC help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8dLfXGBlhg&feature=youtu.be
Short Answer tips/rubric - http://www.tomrichey.net/uploads/3/2/1/0/32100773/_saq_guide_-_ap_history.pdf
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Group Work Periods 1-9
1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8Hl7nHtLOCJpTvxtP_naxnccbY_R7QnekN82FIbE5w/edit?usp=sharing
2
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVTW9W_JdzK5hM69TsfJqUI-8suMsZrxZ15PAQdQDos/edit?ts=5af1edb2#
3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FzNc47pYDp5kfG7ObBDqW2UxYqpAkAItUP5RphCse9Q/edit?usp=sharing
4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/145BY1qJgsg_4Qi_2rz0OfFzZ6K2xhPLwtLAgKlkBuso/edit#
4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/145BY1qJgsg_4Qi_2rz0OfFzZ6K2xhPLwtLAgKlkBuso/edit?ts=5af1edee
5
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15vFSJuKUkLuW2SVnM6-hxTm3GI-lhjy6Y9E3Bc6h2zU/edit?usp=sharing
6
https://docs.google.com/document/d/194J20ZNSuy_0YJyvLFiNm6tHUBrnVzFncZSjfUOgNKY/edit#
8
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q3Tgog4-LEP4MLo1h_XoOEjzrwBTpyqe1spuFoo9I00/edit?usp=sharing
9
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovh3uk54VXWt1JNl_4mO-vBNThUTYLg8I9lOKI23MOo/edit?usp=sharing
9
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovh3uk54VXWt1JNl_4mO-vBNThUTYLg8I9lOKI23MOo/edit