<p>I will be taking the ap euro exam soon and i wanted to start preparing for it. I am looking for a test preparation book i can buy to prepare for it. What are your recommendations for this?
thanks</p>
<p>can anyone help please?</p>
<p>D used the Princeton Review book, "Cracking the AP Euro History Exam", and did surprisingly well. Go to a bookstore and flip through the books to see which format you feel most comfortable with. Good luck!</p>
<p>Igglesfan</p>
<p>do you think princeton is enough?</p>
<p>get modern european history by birdsall s viault
i got a 5 by reading it, i bought the other prep books too (rea, princeton, cliffs) and it was the only one i actually finished reading. i skimmed cliffs for general info and review the day before the test.</p>
<p>i liked merriman a lot better. my teacher was an AP EURO grader and that's what he made us read so i guess it should be good. i got a 5. maybe because our teacher gave tips on the essays and DBQs.</p>
<p>8parks
can you give some tips on DBQ and essay. My son wants to know if DBQ for euro is different from US. His teacher told him that for euro DBQ you do not need any background knowledge where as for US you do need a lot. Is this true?</p>
<p>^^^ That is 100% true.</p>
<p>The DBQs do not require any outside information for AP euro. the main part of the dbq is grouping the documents correctly. If you group them correctly, use the majority of the documents, discuss the point of view in each of them, and write an acceptable thesis, youll get at least a 6.</p>
<p>a 6? I want this kid to get an 8! Look at you, settling for a 6, please, can anyone say underachiever?</p>
<p>lol, i didn't say aim for a 6, i said just do that and you got a 6 minimum, if you just use most/all the documents and identify all the povs and support your thesis, theres your 8</p>
<p>9 is the highest i believe.</p>
<p>That's what I'm talking about, that 9 on the AP exam. And can you believe it, Harvard actually lowered their standards by giving credit for 5's, please, what it this world coming to.</p>
<p>In general, you don't technically need background knowledge for ANY DBQs, though it definitely helps if you do (especially if it's something like last year's AP Euro question, though I think it would have been relatively easy to connect the documents without any background knowledge). But usually, they give you enough stuff to work off of, and you can even get a 9 if you include some of the other extra things to get extra points.</p>
<p>It helps if you keep the rubric for DBQs in mind. You have to get that core six points before you can get any extra points. Also, I have the Princeton Review book at home, and I basically worked out of that one (I had a terrible text book) and got a five, so...</p>
<p>just to sure, the scoring on the Euro essays is as follows:
1) if the student has a thesis, decent organization, and uses a sufficient number of documents, they can get up to a 6. This is called the gate.
2) If a student reaches the gate, they qualify for up to 3 more pts, depending on how well they've written, how many more documents they've used, etc. Some background knowledge can definitely help.
Thus, the total score on each essay is 9. The essay section and MC section are scaled, however, to give a final AP score from 1-5.</p>
<p>Oh, so it really was legit; I was just trying to be funny. Thanks for not telling me guys!!!</p>
<p>read Davies's Europe, A History for political info</p>
<p>read McKay's for social info.</p>
<p>i took ap euro looooong time ago and got a 3. i think i totally disliked it cuz it starts from renaissance. i hate modern history beyond french revolution. but i admire ancient history!</p>