<p>european people lived in algeria.</p>
<p>YES, I got that one! I really guessed on that question. I eliminated one or two answer choices, then went with my gut (because I had this feeling that Algeria has a very strong French cultural background from its colonial past compared with other countries the French colonised).</p>
<p>What was the question about Livingstone/Berlin Conference?</p>
<p>What you guys put for that question about which african country was primarily christian?
I put ethiopia.</p>
<p>Yep, definitely Ethiopia. Ace, it's the question about what signified the start of the scramble for Africa.</p>
<p>Yeah i put Ethopia cause i remember there were lots of Black Jew tribes isolated in Ethopia so i figured.. jewish influence= christain influence doesnt make much sense but the end result was solid</p>
<p>Wendyling i dont study i just absorb information i heard when i was probably like 12 lol</p>
<p>don't take it. nuff said.</p>
<p>but if you do...read the textbook, read the textbook, look at pictures, and be a major history buff b/c the test literally covers everything! every frickin thing in this world, they should just call it : the test of life. because they cover art, religion, culture, tech, political, social, economical....what's left? crap. that's what's left. and they dont test you on crap. </p>
<p>i may be a little bitter, but this test was really hard. unless, of course you "absorb" everything, which is the exact opposite of me. i tend to filter.</p>
<p>oh yeah...im not a pro. but eh. ok i have to be more fair. what i wish i had done - read the textbook instead of watching reruns of ...cough spongebob cough.. and um looking at lots of art pictures. tips - get yourself a photographic memory...basically.</p>
<p>which prep book do you recommend? I was going to prep from Kaplan since barron seems too long,detailed and boring.</p>
<p>kaplan's, barron's, with a side dose of pr.
oh yah and dont forget every single wikipedia article! </p>
<p>yah that was sarcasm...but um just reading the prep book isnt enuff. it really isnt. your gonna have to have a vast knowledge of random things (over a time span of 5000 years great) so again...textbook.</p>
<p>i'll probably have to retake this. I know I can get an 800 ('tis really not that hard).</p>
<p>Does a raw score of 80 always = a 800?
So far I ommited 3 and according to this thread have 9 wrong.
Does anyone know the answer to that Roman ruin picture question? Was it the Roman emperor's power.</p>
<p>I agree 100% with wendyling, and a bit with surge as well. The test is actually easy if you want to settle for a score in the low 700s (which, I must strongly add, there is nothing wrong with; I may be one of these people). However, if you absolutely want an 800, the test is actually brutal. There's no way you can know everything. After I finished Kaplan, I took their practice tests and I was like, "Whoa, there's no way I can know this stuff from the book!" (It's as if there were two different people in charge of writing the book and writing the tests, even though they were published in the same volume.) I went to Wikipedia, and read as many articles as I could (I tried to cover everything from the Bantu people to the Ottoman Empire) but it wasn't enough. If I get a high 700s score, I will be very happy.</p>
<p>LN:
Yes, it is. I knew that one from playing Caesar III. :p</p>
<p>hey, who posted my posts from the other thread? and that wazzup guy's too? this is weird...i dont remember doing that! omg ghosts...</p>
<p>The mods sometimes merge threads to keep things centralised. I have replies in the Bio thread that I never made there.</p>
<p>Here's how you prepare for the AP World History, in descending order of laziness (Last is laziest):
1) Read the entire text. All of it.
2) Review the vocabulary. Mostly people, objects, policies, phrases, famous dates (Like The Fall of Constantine, Black Thursday, Pearl Harbor, V-Day, etc); the famous dates get you less confused about when things happened.
3) Get a book, take some Model Tests, check each wrong answer, rinse and repeat. You should do this no matter what, SATs are all about practice and praying.
4) Get a book, flip to the answers of a Model Test, and read the question, then the answers. Keep doing this until you feel you have a comfortable grasp of history. This is a desperation tactic.</p>
<p>As far as best book to study from, in my opinion, they are:
Princeton Review: AP World History
Barron's: SAT II World History
Princeton Review: SAT II World History
Barron's: AP World History
Kaplans: SAT II World History</p>
<p>Note that the AP World History texts are thicker, meaning more detailed, and have more practice tests of harder questions. Ever since the SAT 2 integrated society into their test, AP World texts have been compatible. </p>
<p>Barron's is by far the text with the hardest tests. They provide minimal information in a nice organizational structure. Good for people who've taken AP World History and just want to damn SAT 2 done and over with.</p>
<p>Princeton is for those who forgot everything or have never taken any World History test. It has decently hard tests, but that is not the PR's greatest asset. The greatest asset is the presence of comphrensive answer explanations that show you how the question was tackled and why each answer was wrong. Also, the text is the longest of the three, meaning more detail. The information is also provided in laymen's terms which might annoy smarter people but can be very helpful to errr... morons.</p>
<p>I don't like Kaplan. At all. Their books aren't nearly as organized as Princeton or Barron's, and their tests are on par with the difficulty of the tests (This is bad).</p>
<p>Why practicing on a test of similar difficulty is bad: Because if the Collegeboard decides to hand you a hard test, you'll be thrown off. You also won't receive as much practice if you take a normal difficulty test over a harder test like Barron's. There's no point to do just a normal test when you can have better. Plus, it keeps you on your feet.</p>
<p>Oh right, I have to ask about the Mongol question.</p>
<p>The only thing they didn't do was spread Buddhism across ALL Asia, right? The Middle East retained Islam and India retained Hinduism. Or am I overanalyzing the question?</p>
<p>The other choice was the Grand Duchy of Moscow, but I'm assuming they're referring to the Great Princedom of Moscow, which arose after the expulsion of the Golden Horde, right?</p>
<p>rant deleted</p>
<p>yeah mongols spread buddhism. they had the silk roads. what were the other choices?</p>
<p>Yeah, Taishaku, I think I got screwed by that question as well. I put down Buddhism for the same reason you did.</p>
<p>Edit:
I can't remember if the question simply said Asia, or to all of Asia. If the latter, I think Buddhism is the right answer. If the former, we're probably screwed. (Although I do recall that not all Mongol Khans endorsed Buddhism; some converted to Islam.)</p>
<p>^ I recall the question saying all of Asia, because I put down Buddhism for the same reason as you guys...</p>