<p>The AP Euro final is on 9 May this year. If you took AP Euro, what was your DBQ about? Can anyone provide suggestions on how to write a quality DBQ? Do you recommend any sites? I think the DBQ is my weak point so far. I am spending my spring break prepping for the exam. I have to get a 5 because then my teacher will bump my grade to an automatic A.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>How does one write a DBQ that is controversial and/or takes a diff stand that is interesting to the readers??</p>
<p>I have seen this advise all over the web but I don't see how it is done. EVery time I have a DBQ I come up with pretty generic, simple answers to the prompt. I want to come up with something original!</p>
<p>Oh and it is worthwhile to spend time providing attribution?</p>
<p>ex: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Italian humanist...</p>
<p>I think my teacher recommended not doing it, but I have heard it is good...</p>
<p>Just make sure your groupings are solid. Obviously make sure you hit all the basic points in the DBQ rubric, and then bring in some extras for more points (like additional information not given in the prompt). Try and use all the docs if you can. Don't forget bias/point of view.</p>
<p>Your teacher should have given you the point rubric for DBQ's. It tells you everything you need to write about to get the most points possible (I know it was also in the PR prep book).</p>
<p>I took the AP Euro exam two years ago in 2006, and the DBQ was over the emergence of organized sports in Europe right after the Industrial Revolution. It was the weirdest topic I'd had to write about but not the hardest. </p>
<p>I always thought my DBQ was my weakest point, too. I always forgot to pull out bias/point of view, until I realized that all that means is that I have to relate the author of the document to his or her historical context. Just make sure you can organize your documents into three strong groups, and you'll be fine. Good luck!</p>
<p>Focus on getting the 6 core points first before you do anything else.</p>
<p>heyy im so nervous too! this is my first ap...and it just occurred to me that the HUGE test is so soon! thanks for reminding me ...lol...better start prepping too! </p>
<p>Hopefully we will both do well!</p>
<p>rbug- " I always forgot to pull out bias/point of view, until I realized that all that means is that I have to relate the author of the document to his or her historical context."...Why..you are extacly right! What a revelation. Hhahaha</p>
<p>and yes, good luck to us hardworker! It is my first and ony AP this year. (sophomore) I am uber worried but feel quite better now after reading most of Viault. My teacher reccomends reading it "cover to cover" this week.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore, and ap euro is my first and only ap this year too. i bought a princeton review book, but is there another company/book thats better?</p>
<p>I truly recommend "Modern European History" by Birdsall Viault. It is about 600 pages and covers everything! Plus, its tiny. I'm reading it now. </p>
<p>Also: "AP Achiever"</p>
<p>Last year my DBQ was on the evolution of how children are treated between (IDK) somewhere around 1600-1700.</p>
<p>I remember taking the AP Euro test with the sports DBQ - talk about strange. The next year in APUSH we had one on farming, which was so exciting. I think a good way to prepare is to learn how to write extemp speeches (yes, I know, it sounds strange), because they basically have the same format as the DBQ.</p>
<p>Yeah, the sports DBQ was definitely exotic, lol.</p>
<p>The farming DBQ was the only essay I did on apush. I'd already clinched a 5 by then so I just...put my head down and slept for 90 minutes.</p>
<p>I'd say just make sure you analyze the bias in 3-4 of the documents, and make sure you use nearly all of them (at least a simple majority). Groupings are implicit in that the graders try harder looking for for them than you try writing youressay.</p>