From what I recall from a packet my teacher handed out at the start of the year, a majority of the m/c questions are based on Unit 3, 4, and 5.
Does anyone have tips on writing a Comparison and contrast essay? And also, how would you explain a POV in a DBQ?
@dsi411: I honestly wouldn’t like an essay on 1900. My class practically rushed that section. We just got finished with our book’s final chapter on Monday. I honestly wish my IB Program continued to make freshmen take AP Euro History; we would have been so much prepared for APWH.
Honestly, APWH is not really world history, yet it is at the same time. We only cover the mere surface instead of going indepth. I wish I had a teacher as prepared as your teacher but-- my teacher was originally an IB History of the America teacher, lol. So she hasn’t adapted to the fast pace of the course since normally in IB, you take the exam in your senior year.
How are you guys going to study today? I’m going to read cram packets and possibly do multiple choices.
I’m look at this essay in my PR book, heres the prompt "Karl Marx asserted, “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” Using ONE of the religions below, compare and contrast the role the religion has played in promoting or impeding societal change. Consider specific revolutions, texts, and religious leaders in answering the question.
-Christianity
-Buddhism
-Hinduism
-Islam
-Judaism
What exactly is being compared/contrasted in this? It makes no sense to me what they want you to write about
Also, in this Copmare and contrast essay
http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_world_history_q3.pdf
The thesis tells you to talk about the role of the state in the economic development, however in the first students essay that scored an 8, there wasn’t really any mention of the role of the state. What exactly does the role of the state mean? Thanks
My mind is always blank when I see the essay prompts for some reason. When you ask me specific questions in the MC, I can remember facts but it’s so hard to just think of them off from scratch in the essays 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hr7C943ss this is actually pretty good, just wanted to share it if anyone wants a very very quick summary of everything.
I found this. I’m not sure if this includes DBQ prompts, or if it’s just comparative and CCOT prompts.
Essay Question Analysis Through 2014:
Regions – Topic as Choice
Latin America 4x
East Asia 2x
East Europe 1x
South Asia 3x
SE Asia 3x
Sub-Saharan Africa 9x
Middle East 5x
North America 1x
West Europe 2x
Europe 2x
Russia 5x
China 4x
Qin/Han Dynasty 2x
Roman Empire 2x
Gupta /Maurya India 2x
Mexican/ Russian/ Chinese Revolution 1x
Mongols 1x
Aztec 1x
Ghana /Mali/Songhay 1x
“Asia” 1x
Byzantines 1x
Islamic Caliphates 1x
Ottoman Empire 2x
Regions – Topic is Forced
China 1x
Meiji Japan 2x
Spanish Empire 1x
Indian Ocean trade 1x
Silk Roads 1x
North America and Latin American Race Relations 1x
Atlantic World 1x
Columbian Exchange 1x
“Afro-Eurasian Trade”
Mongols 1x
Mediterranean Culture 1x
Topics
(not complete, but close)
Islam: several, often 1000-1750
women 1x
Labor systems 1x
First world War and decolonization 1x
Atlantic World 1x
Empires and their impact 6-7x
20th Century Revolutions 1x
Nationalism / Decolonization 2x
Trade Routes 3x
Mongol impact 1x
Migration 1x
Med. Cult. 1x
Columbian Exchange
Time Periods
Before 300 BCE – 0x!
Classical Period
500 BC-500 CE 2x (all empire-related)
200 CE- 1000 CE 4x (all trade route / regional culture)
600-1750 1x
1450 or later total: 13x
1450-1800 5x
1750-1900 or so 4x
19th-20th 5x
(nothing later than 1930s yet)
Good luck everybody! I have gone over Princeton’s review for this test, along with cramming in videos for this course. I hope it suffices :-S Any last minute tips for DBQ’s?
@shiftydraw Yeah, when I was taking that practice test in my Princeton book, I really had no idea what the prompt was asking and what two things you had to compare. I just pulled up another random compare/contrast prompt and wrote an essay over that for my practice test. I’m guessing the prompt is flawed and I’m pretty sure that we’re not going to get a prompt like that. All other compare/contrast essays I’ve done have explicitly stated what two things you’re supposed to compare.
The role of the state in economic development refers to ANYTHING the state did to their economy - that could be economic reform, that could be an encouragement of trade, that could mean directing industrialization (like 5 Year Plans), etc. For the similarity, the student said that both Japan and Russia had industrialized in response to “European shows of political force and political change”. So in this similarity, their governments both had a role in the economy by industrializing their country in response to power that was growing in the West. For the difference, the student said that the Russian state used local resources and foreign loans while the Japanese state used imported metals and its own treasury. So here the states’ roles in their economies differed in exactly how they industrialized.
Anybody did the second Princeton practice test? Why did i barely get a 50/70 on the MC? Does anybody think it is difficult? Am i done with tomorrow’s exam… Now i have no confidence at all.
DBQ is considered the easiest essay to write as all the evidence is given to you. Indeed the hardest part of a DBQ is structuring the essay. Be sure to have 2 POVs, 2 additional documents, and you’ll be good. Explain HOW and WHY each document supports your claim. Also there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to grouping; so long as your groups make sense.
Can anyone please give some insight on writing a compare and contrast essay?
Anybody did the second Princeton practice test? Why did i barely get a 50/70 on the MC? Does anybody think it is difficult? Am i done with tomorrow’s exam… Now i have no confidence at all.
all review book practice exams come out harder than the real thing… relax
@jackwang0703
They are really specific questions about world history when a lot of the questions will be about you being able to make logical connections and understanding the big picture and not just minute facts about the “Glorious Revolution” or the “Magna Carta” like the princeton test has you do. Also, don’t worry I got 26/70 on the practice test right
(first one)… so I am cramming
…If i really got a 50 tomorrow, possibly how many points do i need for the essays to get a 4? I know there is curve, but it doesn’t change much…
MCs : Check (doing okay)
Synthesis: Check (I suppose I’m okay, since I’ve been getting all the fundamentals down)
CCOT: ???
Compare and contrast: ???
What do I do?! I’ve been so focused on AP English Lang…
The one problem for me on the last two is this: I CANNOT REMEMBER HISTORICAL PERIODS. Like if they ask the change and continuity in Rome through blah blah blah to blah blah blah… somehow every fact about Rome disappears from my head… any suggestions?
about 5 points each.
@jackwang0703 Dude, 50 questions correct puts you up there. That’s not so bad but try reviewing key concepts in each time period today. My teacher told us that getting 35 questions correct along with 5’s on every essay can guarantee you a 3. So if you change 35 questions to 50, then that’ll probably give you a 4.
I’ve been getting 47/70 on the multiple choice is that bad lol
@airfire1928 No, but try an actual past AP exam (maybe 2014 or 2013) and not the ones in prep books. The prep books are intentionally made harder than the actual test.
i wish i could have taken a princeton review practice test but i couldn’t buy the book 
It’s okay. They’re not that great.