<p>I know you have to use half plus one of the documents, but do you get more points for using more documents correctly?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Of course you do. The more the better, but just don't rely too much on documents. If you can write like 4 pages I would think you should use like 3/4 of the documents if you can find enough to support your essay. But it's perfectly possible to get a 9 with a shorter essay that has only half+1 of the documents</p>
<p>Also if you use any of the sources incorrectly they don't count those, and then you don't even qualify for the one half + 1, so you should have some extras just in case</p>
<p>how do you use them correctly? Directly cite them or implicatively?</p>
<p>Say document A was about a man talking to a women about ducks fifty years ago. Then your document usage would be something like this:
"...Even in the mid 20th century, men discussed ducks avidly wityh their wives and other female companions (Doc A)."</p>
<p>And half+1 document, I was a told, is a regents rule (which is a new york standardized test that non-AP students concern themselves with (and I tried to make that as not-elitist as possible). My teacher said to try to use all, because it would be more feasible to get a 9 that way (I believe one of the criterion is document usage).</p>
<p>yea, I used all of my documents last year..</p>
<p>Do you guys recommend writing only 5 paragraphs, or as much paragraphs as needed? In the tests in school I just usually write as much paragraphs as I need, no real steady or rounded structure, and I manage to usually get an 8-9. Would you guys recommend to follow a 5 paragraph structure, or just stick with whatever has been working? Also, how much space do we get to write in?</p>
<p>does anyone have a link to the dbq scoring guidelines? i remember in world history you needed to bring up missing voices and stuff like that, but do you need to do that for the APUSH dbq?</p>
<p>no, you dont have to do that for apush.</p>
<p>how long are your dbqs normally? or what is a good number</p>
<p>our teacher tells us to use all the documents minus 2.</p>
<p>try to use all of the documents if you can</p>
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<p>Yep....6/8 or 8/10 for a good score.</p>
<p>Wow I think I only cited like 3 documents today. My APUSH teacher told me that the AP doesn't tell it's graders to look for document count.</p>
<p>Not to be a downer or anything, but my APUSH teacher is an actual reader for the AP, and he has always told us to use half + one, more if we can.</p>
<p>it's a "document based question"...you have to use the documents...of course they are going to take in consideration that you used less than half</p>