<p>I took APUS, but I was wondering how hard the DBQ for Euro was? I know you are not supposed to dicuss the contents of the FR section for 48 hrs, but a simple adjective would do.</p>
<p>Well I can't really say "hard" or "easy," it varies by person, depending on what time periods you are strongest/weakest at.
Actually, apparently you aren't EVER supposed to discuss test contect. That is what the proctor read off at least. Seems highly unrealistic/impossible though.</p>
<p>The FR DBQ will be up on the CB website in 48 hours. You can never discuss specific multiple choice qustions ever. FR is fine.</p>
<p>I thought the DBQ was easier for euro then it was for WH this year. In comparison to US it all depends on what your strengths / weaknesses are. I put the Euro DBQ into 4 categories. How many categories did everyone else use?</p>
<p>S just finished Euro and didn't think it was that bad. He thinks he got at least a 4. He had a good but hard teacher and the AP exam counts as their final (grades are kept until the exam results are in). He was worried about the test and is glad it is over. He was one of only two juniors in the class.</p>
<p>I had a hard time finding groupings for the DBQ, but DBQ's are definitely not my strong point. I guess we're not supposed to say much about it but to give you a vague idea it centered on a fairly recent 20th process that's been happening in Europe. I think some people might have had trouble with it because teachers often don't have time to cover the most recent events in history classes, and this DBQ went all the way up to 1989.</p>
<p>i just grouped teh DBQ into "for unity" and "against unity"... wouldnt that work?</p>
<p>just took US and Euro a few hours ago. For the DBQs, I would say that they were both really easy, the European unusually so (I don't know about the US since we never had a real DBQ in class). But in terms of answering it, I found the US to be slightly easier because it was more straightforward (and you don't have to look at point of view which is always nice). But I guess it depends on the timeframe (if any) that you like in history - I like early american and actually found most of European interesting except for a period between medeivil and modern.</p>
<p>well, the DBQ rubric clearly states that one must group the documents into 3 possible ways. CB has the rubric posted if you want see (its on page 26) </p>
<p>so... what did you guys think? I was the only one in my school to take it so I dont know if I dumb or if it was just hard.</p>
<p>I self-studied for World History and Euro History but I'm definitely not as confident as I was when I took World History. First, I was really weary after taking US History and I was really sleepy during Euro M/C. I left like 5 blank and I'm expecting to get approximately 20-30 wrong. My DBQ was good and my other two were good also. Does anyone want to guess at my prospect for a 5? I am sooooon nervous.</p>
<p>Anyone know the scoring and the curve?</p>
<p>Zas1987 keep your mouth shut or good luck in jail.</p>
<p>green- I'm in a similar situation. I also left 5 blank and i feel confident about the essays (above 6 on all, hopefully). But I can't comment on the possibility of getting a 5 since I don't know the curve. But I guess I can say we will definitely get a 4 or higher.</p>
<p>You guys might want to check out the link that sarorah posted. Its in context to US History but the scoring is exactly the same as Euro. The only difference is the fact that the 2 essays in US are considered as one component out of 18, while Euro' free essay score is composed of 2 9's (minor difference). Both the test have DBQ's and 80 MC's. *(i think...)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.historystuff.net/apscore.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.historystuff.net/apscore.html</a></p>
<p>This 3 groups business upsets me.</p>
<p>Does three groups necessarily mean three paragraphs? Because I only used two paragraphs in my essay, but within the paragraphs were different subgroups based on the overall paragraph.</p>
<p>I think it means that you have to group the documents in 3 different groups/ways. I don't think it means that it has to be 3 separate paragraphs.</p>
<p>Galen, I agree. But again, I highly doubt the number of subdivision matters. If AP only accepts DBQs that are divided into 3 subdivisions, it would be extremely unfair especially since they never notified us on the exam directions. I really think you'd be fine as long as you followed whatever was actually on the green booklet guideline. If 3 subdivisions was so important, I'm sure my teacher who's been teaching the subject for 10 years would have told us but she never mentioned it. If I were you, I really wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>Our teacher DID NOT prepare us for the DBQ. I asked him yesterday if we needed to address bias in at least on document and he said no. I just happened to do so on the test because I had done so on the AP World test last year. It turns out you have to identify bias in THREE documents. Luckily I just barely made it, with one statement about one document and another about two others. I got really lucky.</p>
<p>i really want to discuss some of the mc.... i predicted the DBQ's but was difficult for me to answer the last set of essays...</p>
<p>I grouped it country by country.</p>
<p>u know on apcentral.collegeboard.com if u sign up they have all the old exam essay questions till like 1999 with sample student essays, comments and stuff and like a paper for each year on what thye were looking for with each question. i used it to study, it worked pretty well.</p>