<p>DBQ I made 4 groups:
Attitudes:
Positive
Negative
Motivations:
Economic gain
Nationalism/Prestige</p>
<p>I just went by countries, lol. seemed easier.</p>
<p>pretty much germany was the only one against it! worked that into my thesis well ;)</p>
<p>^ So true an easy four groups: Britain, France, Belgium and Germany. Plus. it used all the documents, even Cecil Rhodes’ :D</p>
<p>BTW, my teacher told us that we only needed 2 documents to be considered a group.</p>
<p>In my school everyone thought the mc was incredibly easy. Same with the DBQ and second FRQ. But NOBODY knew how to answer the first FRQ. I chose 4 and 6. I wish I chose 7 but I was having a total blank and I couldn’t remember ANYTHING about Decartes. ughhh… oh well i think I did pretty well on the MC so I should be ok. but definitely no 5. :(</p>
<p>UVAhopeful, you’re wrong about Bismarck because Bismarck never wanted to colonize. Germany only wanted to colonize AFTER he overthrown by Wilhelm II. But that shouldn’t be that much of a biggie.</p>
<p>That’s what I said. I explained how I screwed that up in my post. If you misinterpret a doc, does your outside info not count lol?</p>
<p>That’s a good question…I have no clue.</p>
<p>Bismarck changed his mind about colonisation, or so I thought, in the late 1870’s. Given that the document was from 1888, the year in fact that he had to start pleasing his new emperor, Wilhelm II, I think it would have been safe if one identified the excerpt as favourable to colonisation. Although if you did say that you know for a fact that Bismarck was opposed to it and showed how to interpret those admittedly vague lines to that effect, you will get points for thinking. My teacher went to a conference where she heard the AP people say that for the DBQ, they are interested in thinking, whether the result is right or wrong. Apparently, they give marks if one identifies as nobility a French writer with a “de” in his name, which is not necessarily accurate at all. I was going to do that for de Vogüé, but decided that the time period was too late for it to be relevant.</p>
<p>I really hope they give credit if you say Bismarck favored colonization to show military strength. I went into detail about Germany’s great military and Bismarck’s “iron and blood” belief. I explained his reasons perfectly, except for the fact that the document had nothing to do with anything I was saying at all.</p>
<p>anyone who knows ap euro grading regulations PLEASE. help me:
i just remembered i might have done something wrong on the writing section.
After I finished my DBQ, since I knew I’d write the last essay of the second group best, I skipped the first group entirely and wrote essay number 7 entirely. At the top, I indicated that it was Part C essay number 7. After finishing this FRQ, I went back to the first FRQ group and I chose essay number 4, indicating the group and number at the top. Is this allowed, jumping ahead even if I indicated which group and number it was?
Please someone help me! I studied so much for that exam and I am SO worried this screwed me entirely.</p>
<p>For FRQs, I did 4 and 6 and broke it down like this:</p>
<p>4:
- Defined Enlightenment ideals and gave examples like religious toleration, the general will, legal reform, separation of powers, checks and balances, etc.
- Both monarchs ruled with Enlightenment ideals in mind in political, religious, and social ways, but extent to which these reforms were Enlightened was limited
- political: Frederick the Great oversaw the codification of Prussian law, established new agencies like the bureau of commerce, abolished the use of torture in legal proceedings (mentioned Cesare Beccaria in particular), he was a micromanager and rarely liked to delegate tasks so separation of powers and checks and balances were non-existent; Joseph continued his mother’s policy of stripping the regional assemblies of their powers - while this was un-Enlightened, because it meant he was making himself even more of an absolute ruler, this allowed him to pursue his Enlightened reforms without opposition from the nobility who dominated the regional assemblies
- religious: Frederick the Great allowed Catholics and people of other denominations to settle in predominantly Lutheran areas and also tolerated the Catholic majority of Silesia, which he had annexed from Austria, laws still in favor of the Lutheran majority; Joseph removed many of the restrictions against people of all Christian denominations and even Jews, continued mother’s policy of bringing the Catholic Church under the control of the state and the clergy became employees of the government, laws still in favor of the Catholic majority
- social: Joseph emancipated the serfs, replacing forced labor with a tax (drawback) - but most of the tax revenue went to the state and not to the landowners, this reform didn’t outlast him; Frederick didn’t go so far as to emancipate the serfs due to the longstanding alliance between the Junkers and the Prussian monarch ever since the days of Frederick William the Great Elector (this is my mistake - I hope I don’t get marked down a lot - because he did free the serfs on the royal lands, but not on private lands), he did institute agricultural reform like draining canals for more available land and promoting the growth of new crops like turnips that made lives for the serfs easier; these social reforms reflected Enlightenment ideals since the Enlightenment espoused the idea that monarchs should rule in the best interest of their people and based on the “general will”</p>
<p>6:
- Thirty Years’ War was a turning point in political, religious, and economic ways
- political: destroyed any remaining political power of the Holy Roman Empire as a unit, led to the rise of France as a dominant power, gave new states like the Netherlands and Switzerland independence
- religious: gave Calvinism legal recognition in the German states, states began to act in their political interest over their religious interest (like France helping Sweden and the Protestant states rather than the Catholic Hapsburgs)
- economic: destruction of the HRE as an economic power, agriculture and commerce in Central Europe suffered significantly, France was able to prosper economically after suffering no decisive defeats</p>
<p>DBQ (4 groups):
- attitudes: condemnation, seen as a necessity
- motivations: national prestige, economic security and expansion</p>
<p>Don’t worry, you’re allowed to skip around. As long as you marked the question number at the top of each page, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Thank you SO much!
It was only my second AP exam (I’m a sophomore) so I freaked after the test when I realized what I did was abnormal.</p>
<p>2 and 7. 2 was total BS, 7 was solid. GET AT ME</p>
<p>Did you have to put like Part C or what not because I just put the number, like 1, 4, 7. Nothing else. Oh no, what if 50% of my test is invalidated now?</p>
<p>I didn’t put the part at the top, just the number. That’s what my proctor told all of us to do and she’s been proctoring for years.</p>
<p>M/C I found it to be moderately difficult, but basically what i prepared for. I rushed through the 1st half because this was my first ap test ever(I’m a sophomore, and in my school this is a junior/senior class), but actually finished 10 minutes early and got to go back and check. I feel fairly confident that i got at least 60 right.
DBQ was very easy, I loved my essay, 4 and a half pages! I spent the whole 15 minutes panning it out though, and went over the recommended time a bit. Can’t really remember what I did, but definitely am thinking it is over a 6, possibly a 7 or 8, not a 9…i only used 9 of the 12 documents. Didn’t really take the time to understand 1 of the documents that confused me. And didn’t have enough time to put in my 5th grouping.
Part B- Murder me, i didn’t know too much about these countries. I mainly studied Russia, england, France, Germany and such. The whole time I just sat there thinking, why couldn’t there be an essay about Russia! Plus I only had 20 minutes for this one. I ended up skipping it and coming back to it
Part C- Like most people, I chose 7. I was a bit vague, but did include some interesting info. I couldn’t remember who Descartes was, even having read his work, my brain just blanked out. I guessed he was a philosopher, and was right!. So i wrote about how philosophers such as himself with their thoughts on humanism and individualism opened up the gate for the scientific revolution, then proceeded to talk about newton and Galileo, which i spelled gailileo at least twice 
I think I got a 4 on this one.
back to Part B- I ended up choosing 4. I remembered what century Fredrick and Jospeh ruled in, and thought about what was going on in the world. Luckily i had a great teacher, who really taught us the ins and outs of ap testing. So i just kept telling myself, answer the question(knowing that simply doing this could get me a 3). I basically BS the whole thing, I was guessing on everything, but i went home and found out that somehow almost everything i wrote was correct, so I’m thinking I got a 5 on this one.
I did the calculations, and to get a 5 one has to get 62 m/c right and a 5 on each essay. I think that I might average out to at least a 5 on each essay, so I’m hoping for a 5, but would be happy with a 4.
Over all it wasn’t as bad as I had expected
Now to study for AP World…</p>
<p>Like Yellowsuby, I thought that the test was sort of difficult. But I knew a lot of questions- im crossing my fingers that most of my guessing ended up right!</p>
<p>The DBQ was pretty easy- it was a nice break from the stress of the rest of the test.</p>
<p>The essays: i chose 4 and 6.
I did not really study the problems of post WWII nations other than those who had the major agreements, so i just chose 4…which i just made up half of because i forgot about frederick the great.
Number 6 was a breeze. thirty years war was one of my fortes.</p>
<p>In terms of the DBQ, I truly hoped to separate my documents into two separate subtopics, but I recollected my teacher explaining that three groups would result in a better score. So, I decided to use the subtopics of economic motivations, political incentives(gaining power in the world), and, less compelling, the impetus of imposing new ideas on other less-fortunate peoples of the world. Unfortunately, I only utilized two documents to support my third area of discussion, but in total, I employed 10 of the 12 sources to my benefit. Out of 9 points, I am hoping to touch a 6, although I’m not sure anything short of a 9 will improve my score.</p>
<p>The multiple choice was fairly moderate. I didn’t think it was too hard, but some questions i just didn’t know. </p>
<p>I thought the dbq went well, but of course, most poeple did.</p>
<p>My most feared:
My ESSAYS. I chose essays 2 and 7. Much of our class focused on the 18th and 19th century which probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do. Number 2 I basically just wrote down everything i learned that morning. Thank God I crammed (surprisingly). 7 was iffy, but not too bad. </p>
<p>I’m really hoping for a 4
but of course disappointment always comes.</p>