<p>Does anyone understand what the dbq question was asking? It was worded strangely to me, and i didnt get it. </p>
<p>Question: Based on the following documents, analyze factors that shaped the modern Olympic
movement from 1892 to 2002. Identify and explain what additional type of
document(s) or sources would help you assess these factors.</p>
<p>This DBQ was definitely off-topic...
It may have been easy to some, but it was hard to others because this so called Olympic Movement is not a topic covered in World History. Therefore, everyone had to use some common sense to apply historical content. I also didn't know what kind of historical content that the question was fishing for - China maybe? No one knows. I think I sort-of (not really) circumvented the question throughout my essay but I definitely made good analysis in body paragraphs based on categories.</p>
<p>I believe they were looking for the Cold War conflict and feminism. There were two documents on feminism: the femal archer picture and a written document. There were also a few Cold War documents that talked about how the US and USSR athletes were really happy to play the other for national pride.</p>
<p>Nationalism/Competition was one of my categories so I guess I'm "okay". I really can't insert feminism as a category if I decided to omit the picture from my 3 categories...I bet many people did not catch Cold War or Feminism or maybe I was just in a rush. There are many acceptable categories in my understanding. As long as the justification is correctly made in the body paragraphs. Now I feel my thesis was horrible and I bombed the DBQ, haha
Urgh..I hope I got a 4 at least</p>
<p>HAHA, reminds me of the European History test I took in May 2006. The DBQ was something about sports over the years</p>
<p>Well..here's the catch.</p>
<p>If you're not too familiar (or didn't follow the instructions given) with what ap looks for on frq for history, you're going to have some problems.</p>
<p>I can't quite remember all aspects of what you're supposed to have anyway, even though I took the ap world test, but i'l give it a shot
- Group the sources in three ways (I did nationalism, feminist movement or something, and economics)
- Within your sources, explain how each applies and cite each document
- Tell which source and explain why it doesn't fit in (the one with the soviet union being democracy is what i said)
- A potential source that is missing (wow, i pretty much blanked out on this on in a way....I said a view from africa, or from actual spectators, since most/all views very from the media or something)</p>
<p>My other two essays were not great by any means. I didn't too super excellant on the mutltiple choice either, and i got a 4. So I'm guessing that my dbq was pretty good as a whole.</p>
<p>I did get a 4, but everything else is in this post is pure speculation :D</p>
<p>Go on the college board website. Download the course description and you can find the grading guidelines for all the essays and examples.</p>
<p>The DBQ is not about historical knowledge (though that is an expanded core point). It's about analyzing and interpreting documents.</p>
<p>Seriously if you can learn how to write essays in this format, you don't have to know that much about history to score high. </p>
<p>I got a 5</p>