<p>Dates can be sort of hard for me to memorize, so should I spend a lot of time on them?</p>
<p>world is much more analytical, while euro is very fact based. You will probably see many more dates in euro, but for things other then timelines you really wont need to know them cold.</p>
<p>WHAP: not important. Just need time periods and things for stuff like the essays.</p>
<p>Dunno about euro.</p>
<p>Don’t know about WHAP, but the AP Euro Test wasn’t big on dates at all this year.</p>
<p>If you know the general century an event occurred in, for the essays, you should be fine.</p>
<p>if i remember correctly, euro will give you a general time period. just as long as you know what happened where and generally when, you’ll be fine. but honestly, there is so much history there, i think you really just need to know what happened in 1517, when the wars are (the big ones, 30 years, french revolution stages, WW1/2, english civil war etc). I am horrible with dates, but I got a five anyways.</p>
<p>Never will the AP Exams ask you about specific dates. Just know the timeline and eras.</p>
<p>I took world history last year, and euro history this year, neither one will ask for specific dates, but you would have to know what century what took place in.</p>
<p>Memorize the timelines, and the significants and impacts of major events and treaties. Be able to connect the dots (as in be able to bs essays with a limited knowledge base, but interpolate more information based on your existing knowledge of the situation and the historical context)</p>
<p>Yeah… basically being able to bs the essays WELL is what will ultimately get you a 5. Ofcourse, reading over both of the ap books helps too.</p>
<p>For world, knowing the general dates is good, but not required. I knew what century most of the important things happened in, and got a 4. The MC won’t require it at all, but the essays kinda do.</p>
<p>And even if they DO ask you for specific dates in World History AP you can easily figure out the answer by just knowing the general stuff (time periods, centuries, CE or BCE etc)and using elimination…we had questions that asked about specific dates in our unit tests but i don’t remember coming across one when I took the actual exam</p>
<p>^ same as us</p>
<p>WHAP – almost NO date memorization needed, what’s more important is to learn the order of dynastys/empires/etc etc, for example, learning the order of the Chinese dynasties and one or two of their dates helps to put everything in perspective. Not knowing the difference between the Qin and Qing dynasties would be bad, but not knowing the exact day Archduke Ferdinand was shot won’t kill you (It’s June 28, 1914 btw 
).</p>
<p>So generally just need to know the century/general time period things happen in. Also need to know what caused what (e.g. Ferdinand’s assass. –> WWI)</p>
<p>world- not much dates. but with so many dynasties and empires, you have to know their time period, and that alone will give you enough trouble</p>
<p>i got a 5 on the euro test and it is much more important to know time periods than specific dates. what you really need to know are “hub dates” which are the big years in Euro history so that way you can give yourself a reference frame for questions that involve time spans.</p>
<p>Not very important. The MC never specifically asks a date, and in the essays you should be okay if you know approximately the years, such as the centuries</p>
<p>I got a 5 on WHAP this year, there were no dates at all on the exam. Essentially, you should know when something happened in relation to something else, or the era it happened in. More specifically, you should probably know the century it happened in (19th century Meiji Restoration, although it was specifically 1868).</p>
<p>I used some dates in the essays for evidence, but you don´t have to. Just know that the event you are using falls within the time period you are writing about, and if you split your essay´s time period into smaller periods, know that.</p>
<p>For example, this year one of the essays had a time frame of 1450 to present day. I chose to write about the beginning (1450-1700), middle (1700-late 1800s), and end (1900-1980s). </p>
<p>What is great about the essays is that everything you do, as long as it falls within the “shell” (essay point checklist), is entirely your choice.</p>