Transcript Taking_the_APWH_Exam[1] - MR. FLORES` AP WORLD HISTORY

APWH
Taking the
AP World History Exam
Breakdown of the Exam
Section
Multiple
Choice
Free-Response (Essay)
Weight
50% of exam 50% of Exam
16.7% of Exam
16.7% of Exam
16.7% of Exam
Continuity and
Change over Time
Compare and
contrast
# of Questions
70
DBQ: DocumentBased Question
Time Allowed
55 minutes
10 minutes mandated for reading DBQ documents;
120 self-budgeted minutes to write 3 essays
Suggested Pace
Approx. 45
seconds per
question
40 minutes to write 40 minutes to plan
and write
40 minutes to plan
and write
STRATEGIES FOR THE
MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION
• Guessing penalty: If you cannot narrow down the
answers at all, it is against the odds to guess, so leave
the answer sheet blank. However, if you can narrow
down the answers by eliminating even one response, it
is advantageous to guess. If you skip a question, be
careful to skip down that line on the answer sheet.
• Read the question carefully, especially in EXCEPT or
NOT questions.
• Eliminate any answer you know is wrong.
• Read all of the possible answers, then choose the most
accurate response.
• Avoid absolute responses, such as answers that include
the words “always” or “never.”
• Mark and skip tough questions.
AP World Themes
1. Patterns and impacts or interaction among
major societies: trade, war, diplomacy, and
international organizations
2. The relationship of change and continuity
across the world history periods covered in this
course.
3. Impact of technology and demography on
people and the environment (population
growth and decline, disease, manufacturing,
migrations, agriculture, weaponry).
Themes continued
4. Systems of social structure and gender
structure (comparing major features within and
among societies and assessing change).
5. Cultural and intellectual developments and
interactions among and within societies.
6. Changes in functions and structures of states
and in attitudes toward stat4es and political
identities (political culture), including the
emergence of the nation-state (types of
political organization).
Habits of Mind
Habits of Mind are…
• The tools you need to unlock the meaning
from the content;
• Not restricted to writing;
• The tools you use in the classroom every
day to think critically about the content of
the course.
Habits of Mind
As a student in any rigorous history course, you should be
able to do the following:
• Construct and evaluate arguments: use evidence to
make plausible arguments;
• Use documents and other primary data: develop the
skills necessary to analyze POV and context, and to
understand and interpret information;
• Assess continuity and change over time and over
different world regions;
• Understand diversity of interpretations through analysis
of context, POV, and frame of reference.
Habits of Mind
As a world history student, you should also do the
following:
• See global patterns and processes over time and space
while connecting local developments to global ones;
• Compare within and among societies, including
comparing societies’ reactions to global processes;
• Consider human commonalities and differences;
• Explore claims of universal standards in relation to
culturally diverse ideas;
• Explore the persistent relevance of world history to
contemporary developments.
APWH Time Periods
•
•
•
•
•
Foundations (ca. 8000 BCE-600 CE)
600-1450
1450-1750
1750-1914
1914-Present
APWH
GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
• Be able to recognize and name the
various regions of the world.
• In using the AP time periods, have a
general understanding of what countries
existed in the various regions.