@ Ebtrvl - You should get your hands on a review book, ASAP, and make it your bible until May.</p>
@ wesley - Yes, I do consider it unfair, but she says we will start timing ourselves after winter break.</p>
holy $#!%. We’re just finishing up Renaissance Politics. Our teacher is amazing, but we watch too many documentaries and he doesn’t follow the curriculum.</p>
After cracking open my review book today, I’ve realized that the whole first quarter’s information isn’t even on the exam. </p>
aarghh.</p>
Woah, I would suggest you to catch up to the French Revolution by January, self-study if you may.</p>
I plan to finish this week, and really go all the way with my PR. Once I finish it, I want to back into it, doing in different color side notes the themes that CB looks for.</p>
We had our MC exam today on the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and Romanticism. Tomorrow we are having are thematic exam which I’m studying for now but I hate writing intros. I have two done so far but… I’m just lost</p>
Jackyt - I’m sorry for the late reply! But nope, I do not know who merriman is or what book he wrote.</p>
Ugh I don’t want to talk anything about Euro I had my final (which was set up just like writing portion of the AP exam) and I don’t think I did so good I needed to get a 88 but idk…</p>
<ol>
<li>The Italian Renaissance - 5 questions</p></li>
<li>The Northern Renaissance - 0 questions</p></li>
<li>The Reformation - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>The Catholic Reformation and the Wars of Religion - 6 questions</p></li>
<li>The Age of Exploration and the Commercial Revolution - 1 question</p></li>
<li>The Dutch Republic - 3 questions</p></li>
<li>England, 1558 - 1688 - 2 questions</p></li>
<li>Age of Absolutism in France - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>Absolutism in Eastern Europe - 3 questions</p></li>
<li>The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment - 2 questions</p></li>
<li>The Enlightened Despots - 2 questions</p></li>
<li>Life and Culture in 17th and 18th Century Europe - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>The French Revolution and Napoleon - 8 questions</p></li>
<li>Restoration, Romanticism, and Revolution - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>The Industrial Revolution - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>Nationalism, Realpolitik and Realism - 2 questions</p></li>
<li>Mass Politics and Culture - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>WW I and the Russian Revolution - 4 questions</p></li>
<li>The 1920s - 0 questions</p></li>
<li>Depression, Dictators and WWII - 7 questions</p></li>
<li>Cold War and Beyond - 9 questions</p></li>
</ol>
That was the APEH 2009 Exam. In my opinion, I would study the ones that appeared most frequently, and the ones that didn’t appear at all extensively.</p>
Hey guys, I took Euro two years ago and thought I’d try to alleviate some worry. My class used Palmer, but I would certainly recommend buying a prep book regardless of what text your school uses. </p>
As for FRQ’s, they do have patterns. There is usually an option about art/philosophy, one about more concrete events/politics, and a compare/contrast. You’ll always have varied options, in fact, the year I took it there were many complaints to CollegeBoard because two options both related to Eastern Europe. But this is unusual, and so warranted protest. They do try to give you choices. </p>
If you have any other big questions, I’ll try to answer them. And remember you now have the huge benefit of not having incorrect answers count against you!</p>
Thank you, do you remember any other patterns you saw? I’m pretty strong in Eastern Europe, it’s quite easy. My only struggle is Britain…</p>
Well, there always will be a large focus on traditional European powers, France, England, Germany ect. That I believe is pretty consistent. What is changing though, is a greater focus on art and cultural changes, as opposed to military or political history. The material is still drawn from the same countries, but the focus is different. For instance, I had two questions on womens suffrage and liberation, but not a single question on WWII. CollegeBoard is trying to move away from the more traditional rote memorization to thematic issues.</p>
What are the best prep books?</p>
AP Achiever, Modern European History (by Viault), Crash Course</p>
I second AP Achiever, that’s the one I used. Ideally, if you have friends taking the exam too you can all get different prep books and then share them. I had a really small class so this worked for us. That way, you have access to many different full length tests if you agree not to write in the books.</p>
I read ahead this break and I’m 50 pages to finish the PR book, but I plan to reread it afterwards. Then, I plan to read Crash Course. Also, do teachers have free access to the released exams?</p>
My class has based Romanticism. I dont know the name of the chapter we’re on now</p>
My class has pass Romanticism. I dont know the name of the chapter we’re on now</p>
CollegeBoard releases past DBQ and FRQ’s. They also provide scoring guidelines. Multiple choice questions are never released. </p>
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My class is currently doing the Industrial Revolution / Return of Conservatism / Romanticism in one uber-unit. We just did the French Revolution and Napoleon</p>
Guys, for my own sake, I will start to write on these “themes”/trends CB asks for, and for YOUR sake, I will post them here. I also have a crafty idea that on April, we begin to discuss these themes ourselves.</p>