@sdw8253 Yeah, I’d say so
@sdw8253 even though @unwound thinks hes average that average may seem in achievable to you I’d say READ THE TEXTBOOK it’s really helpful unless you’re someone that has gotten over 97% in history classes without studying then just watch the videos and youll be fine
@BucketsUCSC Based on your earlier posts on this thread, I’d assume that you’re currently taking the class. If you had read my post, you would see that I advocate you read the textbook for the class itself but rely on getafive for the AP. The AP exam covers world history in far less than detail than your class/textbook does. For instance, although your teacher gave a geography quiz in class, the AP exam doesn’t require you to know in-depth geography at all, just a general sense of where everything was in the past.
I’m doing whatever was listed above, but to be honest my average is meh (94). My teacher grades everything based off the AP curve (and I mean everything, even the homework!!). A lot of people in my class have either 95-99; 90-94; or 89 or below and it’s really annoying that he doesn’t give out 100s for full credit (rather it’s 90). The Barron’s book is pretty annoying to use because for the past few tests, I tried looking at the sections that we were learning for information but it wasn’t there. HOWEVER, if you go like 5 chaps ahead, then that information that should have been in the time period was discussed in some futuristic problem of sorts (like smh). It’s more like I’m taking another English class rather than in a history class (everything is classwork, worksheets galore, read some random book about world civilizations, be clueless as &^% because you have no notes whatsoever, and the textbook pffft, 20-50 pages worth of reading to just solve one question or write a “grammatically” correct essay much fun very life). I’m sorry but I got into this class with a 99 in World History I and what I learned in that class, we only covered that thing in 3 DAYS (Neolithic Revolution to Communist China) and the funny thing is that half of the class itself (not including my own) was in Human Geography and didn’t learn nothing. I did this because history is an interesting course but here all we do is look at worksheets about this robot who went to China to see Buddhism.
I apologize but I wanted to get that off from my chest.
Tips from a person who scored a 5 last year:
Practice writing your essays - Standard five paragraph & with a complex-split thesis (look that up if you do not know)
Transition from writing one essay a week to 2 essays a week and then finally to 40 minute timed essays.
I had the World Civilizations: The Global Experience textbook. I didn’t read a couple of chapters.
Buy the Barron’s APWH book and go mad on notes and highlight everything important you see.
Pointers for the actual exam:
If you relate a completely irrelevent event in world history to another event on the essays, you’ll probably score high.
For example, I somehow connected the Enlightenment in Europe during the early 19th century or something to the slaves in America.
Never. Stop. Writing. A long essay will score higher than a short one.
Always remember your thesis statement and relate everything that you write back to that thesis… even if you have to fake something to do it. These AP readers are not going to dig through every historical fact that they see.
@roxy365
@human997
@Thatuser
@unwound
Hey guys,
I just wanted to know the relative difficulty of the exam since the tests I get in class are impossible-hard >_>
Is the 2007 AP world history multiple choice exam harder or easier than the actual test? Thanks!
My teacher grades the exams based on the AP curve itself. So far, the students in his classes are getting 90+ (98 being the most common) with a 42 multiple choice exam. He told us that majority of them get around 6-10 questions wrong, which is not bad. This is the same with the essays but the DBQ killed me with a 1 :\ . Honestly, I noticed that the questions on the exam (he claims he gets them from previous ap exams) are mostly logical thinking then memorization. Never, past these few months, was I asked to pinpoint the exact location or events of a certain time period.
I got a 5 last year in APWH and the best advice I can give you guys is to create a essay template for CCOT C&C and DBQ and use PR for content review. Also use MC from released exams.
Also look over previous years FRQ’s because I saw a previous FRQ as the CCOT and destroyed it.
@Manohar123
@roxy365
@human997
@Thatuser
@unwound
Hey for those who took the AP World history exam, how hard is the MC
I’m looking at the sample questions from the collegeboard and I’m getting basically all of them right. I’m so surprised how they are so easy.
https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/course/ap-world-history-2011-course-exam-description.pdf
Is the actual exam just as easy as the sample questions from collegeboard?
The sample questions start from page 98 by the way. Thanks!
@YoLolololol
I did those problems, and I found them very
simple. I got all 30 right, which is a great confidence booster as I wasn’t sure if I was going to sign up for the test or not. I am very into world history, but my teacher hasn’t really taught us much, which is why I was hesitant towards signing up for AP World.
Have any of you used Learnerator for AP WH? If so, are the questions similar to those on the real AP?
@kimjiwonjenny I have heard of learnerator, and it seems a little too good to be true. ( they guarantee a 4 or 5 if you meet their conditions)
Although they require you do every single practice problem, Official FRQ, redo every single question you get wrong, go through all the lessons/outlines ,and that you have 100 unique visits, PER SUBJECT, so its really getting a four or five out of sheer practice. If world is it for you, I would get it as it’s only $25.
@Ahmeda14960 Thanks!
How far are all of you guys in the content? My class is on Ch. 36/38 in my textbook(Traditions and Encounters) right now. Have your classes started to work on the essays at all? My class has only started the DBQ, and the exam is only about a month away.
@TP2000 We are learning about the Cold War and we have practiced all the essay. Our class will start reviewing in two weeks.
@TP2000 My class hasnt even started WWI yet…
@Ahmeda14960
Same
We only practiced the DBQ and C&C atm and just started on CCOT today :C
We’re doing Italian and Spanish fascism (as of yesterday).
If there are any survivors of this exam out there, how did you manage the exam and how did you study prior to it? What scores did you receive?
Does anyone know the raw score required to get a 5? I know it’s out of 150 and that multiple choice is 50% and each essay is about 17%, by what percentage do I need to get a five?