Which of AP World History and AP European History do you think is the
Meh, I think European History is definitely more interesting than World. I want to take it next year instead of World, but the teacher doesn’t teach at all. Is it easy to self-study for a 5? Or shall I just settle with AP World next year (good teacher, mostly 4’s and 5’s)?</p>
I didn’t take WH, I took Euro so I can’t say for sure any of your questions. My Euro class was really tough, but I ended up getting a 4. Based on the AP Euro test, 1. WH (Euro has a lot of facts that you have to know about EVERYTHING). 2. Euro definately. I’ve seen my friends regular WH textbook and it’s boring compared to Euro. 3. Based on my class, I don’t know how a person could self study Euro (my teacher was amazing), but it might be manageable. 4. I don’t know about WH, but I believe Euro has a generous curve. I could be wrong. 5. Again, I don’t know about WH, but I thought the exam for Euro was pretty easy. We were reviewing a month before the exam date, but I felt like I wasn’t getting enough. I bought the PR review book a week and a half before the exam. It helped A LOT. I would say self study for Euro.</p>
What TB should I get</p>
if your going to self study euro, buy rea not princenton review. also euro is managable to self study, but you need to have previous knowledge in european history.</p>
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<li>AP European History. You only have to know from Renaissance (1400 C.E.) to present.</li>
<li>AP European History, to me, is more interesting than AP World History.</li>
<li>Less content means easier and more flexible self-studying.</li>
<li>The leniency for both exams are approximately the same.</li>
<li>I find AP World History easier since MC is hella easy if you read the textbook and the rubrics for the essay show that you can get the easy 8 or 9 points. However, the drawback is that the FRQ does not have essay options per question like in the AP Euro and AP USH exams. So, you’re expected to know everything of AP WH to receive a 5. However, AP European History should be easier than AP World History in general since MC is easy if you read the textbook and DBQ is weighted more than the other two essays in the FR. You can get a 5 on that exam by doing well on the MC (50+/80) and receiving an 8 or 9 on the DBQ, which is extremely easy to do since the rubric has very specific guidelines like for the DBQ on the AP WH exam. All you have to do for the other two essays is to receive 4/5s on them.</li>
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Textbook Recommendation
World History: The Earth and Its People: A Global History by Bulliet
European History: A History of Western Society by McKay</p>
Prep Books Recommendation
World History: Princeton Review (but I have a distaste toward it)
European History: AP Achiever + Crash Course</p>
European History is definitely “easier”, in terms of it isn’t as broad and general as World. You don’t have the Change over Time and Compare and Contrast essay (which I personally hated because I hate being constricted in my writing that way). As far as I could tell, if you paid attention in class, you could get by with a 3 easy enough… a lot of it is common sense if you have at least minimal knowledge of the time period. Not to mention, the multiple choice section is in chronological order, which helped me.</p>
P.S.- get Princeton, not Barron’s!!</p>
How much do World and Euro overlap? That is, will taking/studying one help you with the other one in some way (besides generally improving your writing skills, etc.)?</p>
Let’s see. There are overlaps in Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. However, European History is more specific than World History. World History only cover those topics more broadly.</p>
What did you get on the exams jerry?</p>
Both 5’s. AP History exams (excluding AP Art History since I have not and will not take it) to me are easy. I benefit a lot from reading textbooks.</p>
I took Euro from a great teacher this year, but I also self studied for World History. There was some overlap, but I had to learn a lot from the kaplan prep-book. 5 in Euro, 4 in World FWIW. </p>
Textbook for Euro: A History of the Modern World by R.R. Palmer.</p>
^^ whoaaa…all i can say is…BEAST</p>
^Thank you, but I do not consider receiving two 5’s on those exams as BEAST.</p>
I took AP Euro this past year with an excellent teacher. I’m yet to receive my scores but I think a 4 is realistic. </p>
I found the class to really get interesting when we started the politics behind WWI, and that era (I was never one for monarchs and promiscuous popes). As for the study books, my teacher gave us all The Barron’s AP European books to use for the semester, I never really opened mine, and in the days/weeks before the test I relied a lot on European History For Dummies. Euro for Dummies gave a lot of insight to things not covered in the textbooks, and gave some other details to tack onto the DBQs or FRQs. I didn’t think the test was that bad, I had prepared during other classes A LOT and before/after school sessions leading up to May 7 helped a lot. Also see if the teacher has those copies of the “retired” tests, they came in handy a bunch in studying.</p>
My experience will probably differ a lot as I was in a class of about 12, though. Good luck. I’d recommend AP European History to anyone.</p>
^^ but you self-studied them all on your own and, well, it’s history which is long and boooring :P</p>
^Boo. History is awesome.</p>
^Nah, math is more awesome d^^</p>
Oh yeah & is “A History of Western Society” by McKay the one on the Collegeboard list and the one that almost everyone uses?</p>
AP World History I had as a class and AP European History I had as a self-study.</p>
Some CCer’s has used the textbook and found it preferable.</p>