<p>I'm sure that there are a lot of people are getting ready for this exam and nervous about it because most juniors who take it are. Here's the best advice I can give you guys:</p>
<p>1) Focus your studying on improving the multiple choice raw score. You just need to practice the timed essays once or twice in order to make sure you are writing fast enough to write the essay, most of you have had timed essays in class so you shouldn't have to practice it. If you know everything for the multiple choice you will know everything you need to know to write well on the DBQ and essays. </p>
<p>2) The documents in the DBQ can almost always be organized into three categories: social, political, and economic change. If you have a hard time writing introductions write: "The ______________ affected America politically, economically, and socially." For instance, last year the topic was Republican Motherhood. I had no idea wth Republican Motherhood was and just wrote something along the lines of: "Republican Motherhood greatly affected America politically, economically, and socially," and jumped straight into explaining how what was being depicted in the documents affected America either politically, economically, or socially.</p>
<p>A lot of the essays can follow the whole political, economic, and social thesis statement as well. When in doubt or coming up with a blank write it as your thesis and just support it...</p>
<p>3) Just remember that the AP graders do not take off points for wrong facts in your essays, they only give you points for the right stuff. So, it's always better to put something that you THINK might be right than not putting anything at all.</p>
<p>That's all I can think of right now... pretty basic stuff, hope I helped. :)</p>