<p>The DBQ doesn't really worry me as much as the free response.. for the DBQ's atleast you have documents for facts. The free response we have to come up with the info on our own. What if your totally blank on a topic? Or what if you can't come up with all the little details or some points?</p>
<p>All the little details aren't important...just make sure you know some general trends. Even if you blank out make sure you at least write SOMETHING. Even if most of your info is wrong, you could still probably get a 3 or so on an essay by writing about one or two facts, as long as you have a decent thesis. If you don't know something at all, write a short, low-quality essay, and then use the extra time to improve your other essays (even if you blank out and get a 1 or 2 on one, if you get 6's on the others through using the extra time you still have an above average score for the essays).</p>
<p>thing is isnt the ap exam built on a scale of
1 - 7 Standard Core
+ 1 / 2 Expanded Core</p>
<p>Totaling 9, i hope you should strive to get into expanded core, getting a 6 on the exam would give you roughly a D if you were to grade it on a regular scale in school... 6/9, 2/3... thats 0.67... strive to go farther beyond limits, and when your done... "be sure to memorize the core scales" grade it yourself and see how far you go</p>
<p>it says in PR book that we should strive fore 50 or more raw points on the M.C. part to guarantee getting a 3 or better... isnt that seem a little high, seems like it hsould be to get a 5</p>
<p>The essays are going to be graded hard so maybe it's not such a bad idea to try to get 50 points on M.C.</p>
<p>can neone tell me the number of m/c questions and points on the essays needed for a 3, 4, and 5?
much obliged</p>
<p>here is the scale for the 2002 exam
78-120 = 5
64-77 = 4
54-63 = 3</p>
<p>I think it is something like that, anyways I got in the 80's, so I got a 5.
The hardest question was a question about the Prague Spring, which I had never heard of, and there was a weird symbols and religion identification that I had no clue on, but a general goal for a 5 would be to get 50/70 questions correct on teh mc.</p>
<p>someone start a question?</p>
<p>explain why Tamerlane (a.k.a. Timur) was able to establish an empire in the Middle East and Central Asia?</p>
<p>which review book has the most accurate practice tests? does anyone know?</p>
<p>Hey all, I'm a sophmore in High School struggling through APWH. We're on the west coast, so our school system started a few weeks late- so we get to deal with the last four chapters at the end of the book all at the same time. It's a week until the exam though, so I hope you don't mind if I jump in and study with you? I read back through the previous pages and the questions already posted rock.</p>
<p>To answer the q above me about review manuals, I use princeton and barrons, but barrons is SO dull. It's got really good info on classical civ religions (very detailed) as well as the mid east/islam and sub-saharan africa.</p>
<p>Those last three areas are my extreme weakness- if anybody has any information or wants to fire some questions at me about it, that would absolutely rock.</p>
<p>Can someone give me a brief run-down of the environmental treaties/protests/things we need to know about the 20th century? (Like do we need to know about the KYOTO Protocol?)?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the test is actually graded? Is each multiple choice question worth 1 point (70 in total) and then 16.66 per essay (50 in total) to equal 120? And also I have the Cliffnotes AP review book and I wanted to know if the practice exams in the back are accurate because I don't think they are.</p>
<p>Well the answers never seem accurate... I'd recommend the princeton review- the answers section goes through all of the POE and give a lot of details as to WHY.</p>
<p>Testing rubrics can be found online, but the breakdown is simple... </p>
<p>number of MC right + number of MC wrong times .25 + essay grade (1-9), and then whatever you get from that falls into their numbering system, 1-5, which our teacher <em>says</em> is on a curve, but I don't know if that's true or not...</p>
<p>Dancin, it's true that the AP exam is on a curve... They grade each test and they get the highest score and compare it with the lowest score (they are comparing it on the raw scale) and they make up a formula so it can go between 1-5.</p>
<p>Q: Which continent is the world's oldest surviving ethnic group from?</p>
<p>A: Australian Aborgines? </p>
<p>Q: Explain the difference between feudalism in Japan and that in Europe.</p>
<p>A: The people in Japan are Asian, while the Europeans are not. (that's seriously how much I know)</p>
<p>Good resource for those of us taking the AP World History Exam. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.studystack.com/menu-13361%5B/url%5D">http://www.studystack.com/menu-13361</a>
<a href="http://www.studystack.com/menu-13364%5B/url%5D">http://www.studystack.com/menu-13364</a>
<a href="http://www.studystack.com/menu-13365%5B/url%5D">http://www.studystack.com/menu-13365</a></p>
<p>Click on the flashcard link or one of the other ones. The vocab is pretty useful and accurate. Have fun cramming. BTW, if any of you have the Princeton Review book, how accurate would you say the test are? (I thought the released test i took in class was somewhat easier.</p>
<p>Japanese feudalism had to do with loyalty i think!!</p>