<p>Anybody who is self-studying AP World History may benefit from watching these 1/2-hour videos as you read your books:</p>
<p>Bridging World History:</p>
<p>[Resource:</a> Bridging World History](<a href=“http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html?pop=yes&pid=2144#]Resource:”>http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html?pop=yes&pid=2144#)</p>
<p>My daughter watched a few in her WHAP class and she said they are surprisingly helpful as they bring to life much of the material.</p>
<p>Two great summary resources for the Stearns book, if anyone has them:</p>
<p>Chapter Notes : [url=<a href=“http://www.mrburnett.net/apworldhistory/stearnschapternotes.htm]AP”>AP World History - Stearns Chapter Notes/Outlines]AP</a> World History - Stearns Chapter Notes/Outlines<a href=“Gives%20really%20good%20notes%20you%20can%20expand%20on”>/url</a></p>
<p>Student Resources : [url=<a href=“Site Retired”>Site Retired]World</a> Civilizations, AP* Edition<a href=“Gives%20longer%20summaries%20but%20a%20lot%20easier%20to%20read%20than%20the%20book”>/url</a></p>
<p>I am taking AP World now as a sophomore, and so far, my teacher has not done much teaching. Rather, she assigns weekly notes and chapter questions for the textbook which take hours to do and results in me staying up until 3 AM to finish them. Since I am super tired at that time, it is extremely difficult to retain ANY of the information which I am taking notes on. In fact, I am practically half-asleep when I am perusing the textbook to the point where when I look back at previous chapters, I do not remember a single word from any of the chapters. I would try to get the work done earlier in the day except I am overloaded with homework from other classes. On top of that, I recently missed a week of school, so now I have tons of make up work to catch up on! I am really striving for a 5 at the end of the year, but considering that only 2 people from my school got a 5 last year, it is going to be difficult… Anyway, for the people that took this course last year, did you find the strict time limits to be unbearable? Or were they fairly reasonable enough to manage to finish the test in time?</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as @MITobsession , I can’t remember a thing. But as for something I do know, timed tests are something you get used too. Typically the times are reasonably determined and if you know the material well, you’ll breeze through without thinking of it. I’m not sure if it is any different for History, but I find that less than a minute per problem is not as crazy as what you first make it out to be.</p>
<p>Good to know! I am generally a pretty fast test-taker, so I am mainly worried about finishing the essays in time. An annoying habit of mine on the multiple choice is to bubble in the circles PERFECTLY, and I usually spend way too much time doing that rather than actually answering the question lol.</p>
<p>For Compare/Contrast essays, how many differences/similarities are required to get that point?</p>
<p>I would strive for as many as you can! From what I have seen of past essays that received “9’s”, it really helps to add lots of information often from external sources, so basically, compare and contrast as many characteristics as possible, I would think. I am thinking at LEAST 2 similarities and 2 differences? Please correct me if I am wrong!</p>
<p>Wow, took me a while to find this thread…</p>
<p>Hi AP World peeps, what up? Enjoying the learning?</p>
<p>LOL we’re still on Islam’s expansive realm or whatever…
SOSLOW.</p>
<p>We are on the Industrial Revolution</p>
<p>^What? Wow, we just started the 1450-1750 unit.</p>
<p>I’m doing a project about the Columbian Exchange right now, and on a side note, I am ecstatic that I do not have a final in AP World! Gotta love AP classes lol… Does anyone have a final in that class?</p>
<p>Man I took this last year and I am really sorry for you guys. My teacher taught me nothing…literally nothing. I didn’t read the textbook. I studied for one night and I got a 4. I would recommend just learning that format of the essays because that’s part of what I studied and I’m pretty sure that’s why I didn’t fail.</p>
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<p>I just did a project about the Columbian Exchange too. (Well, before break that is).</p>
<p>No final, but I do have to take a “SOL” (Virginia’s standardized tests, equivalent to Florida’s FCAT, and whatever the other states call them) and am not looking forward to it because I’ll have two weeks to cram for that after the AP exam, but it’s easy.</p>
<p>We also have to take a mock AP exam in a couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Oh cool! In California, the standardized testing is called STAR which is the equivalent of the SOL in Virginia. I’m also not looking forward to the world history portion of the test because of its close proximity to the AP exam!</p>
<p>My teacher is just like, “SOL’s aren’t important as long as you don’t fail. You could pass the SOL right now anyhow, because you all are smarter than everyone else.” Yeah.</p>
<p>my class is on mali, mansa musa, ghana, africa</p>
<p>We’ve just gotten past the Atlantic slave trade. Not sure what the next unit’ll be, though. We’re getting new textbooks next week though (yes!) since we only have the third edition of The World and Its People.</p>
<p>My class just finished the early modern ere. We’re taking midterms this week</p>
<p>Anybody have practice Apwh exams?</p>