<p>I am planning on taking APUSH sophomore year at my new school, but they makes us take a DBQ exam to get in to APUSH and I have never done DBQs before. Does anyone know what I can do (online websites, tips, etc.) to learn and write DBQs?</p>
<p>DBQ’s For Dummies? There must be one for that…when you write a DBQ, you want to use the majority, if not all, of the documents supplied. I would assume that for APUSH you will get a past DBQ question from a test. Go onto apcentral and check out past tests, then look for examples of answers and see what others did. Last year, when I took the APUSH test, I think I used all but one of the documents (got a 5)…also, on AP DBQs they leave out a major event or topic, which you can hopefully bring in as outside info. </p>
<p>If the DBQ they give you IS from a past APUSH exam, you won’t have much time to think, organize and write. When going through the documents, take notes on what they relate to and basically annotate. In your paragraphs (4 of them would be good), don’t use the same method of citing every time. For example:</p>
<p>1.) As Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburgh Address…
2.) World War 1 led to a period of isolationism in America (Document A). </p>
<p>Finally, don’t get nervous!!! If you feel yourself getting shaky, just drop your pencil and breath. </p>
<p>@BPearlman97 I was actually thinking about dbq for dummies but couldn’t find one before posting this thread. At the library I checked out a AP World history exam prep book to see if it could help me learn DBQs and it’s helped me understand DBQs better. There were no APUSH exam prep books to study DBQs off of so I am wondering what the difference between APUSH and AP World DBQs are including guidelines and what’s needed.</p>
<p>We had to do those in 9th grade for Modern World History.
We knew we had one (it gives you an essay question and then about 10 quotes/documents to use as evidence) in our final, but he wouldn’t give us the essay question until the final.
So someone just back searched the document on google… and then told us what the essay prompt was and we were all prepared by the time we took it. </p>
<p>To answer your question, remember you don’t have to use quotes from every document, and outlines REALLY help!!</p>
<p>@geekybro check out some past exams:</p>
<p><a href=“AP United States History Exam – AP Students | College Board”>Get the Most Out of AP – AP Students | College Board;
<p>Before the actual APUSH test in May, I went through like 10 or so past exams and thought/wrote down about what I could use to answer the DBQ and FRQ essays. I took the WHAP test too, I guess they were pretty similar in requirements and all. WHAP is just 1000 times more general bc, well, it’s the world and not the US…</p>