<p>Oh. I was talking about the CCoT essay on that post. For the Comparison essay, I picked the first and third options.</p>
<p>Ohhh. TBH, my memory of the exam is so bad, I don’t even remember having options for the CCoT essay. 
My bad.</p>
<p>Can’t we talk about the essays after the first 24 hours or something? I know we can’t ever talk about the MC.</p>
<p>Well its been 48 hours soo…
I didn’t think they were that bad at all. In fact I was beyond pleased. The DBQ was pretty long, but not too challenging. My worst essay probably, but I don’t think I did that terribly on it. The COT took me a while to think of a continuity, but I still think I pulled off the essay well. And the CC was very easy. I think I nailed it, which actually makes me worried because its different from what all my other classmates think.
I also thought the multiple choice was pretty easy. Somewhere between 10-20 incorrect. I’m realy praying for a five, but I’m sure I made some bizarre mistake that ruined my entire score…</p>
<p>It actually hasn’t been 48 hours, and everything you just said still could have been said before 48 hours was up anyways. You didn’t even reveal anything. lol</p>
<p>I will be taking APWH next year and I would like some heads up from you guys who have already taken it. What study books do you think would be best to use? Barron’s, Kaplan, Princeton? It would probably be better to ask all of you after you have received your AP Exam scores, but based on how well you think you did, what book would you recommend and why? To be honest, I would just like to do well on both the exam and the class. We’re using the World Civilizations: The Global Experience textbook.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the coming advice. :)</p>
<p>DocZach: In addition to whatever responses you get here, you may find some advice in this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/928834-tips-each-subject-ap-graduates.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/928834-tips-each-subject-ap-graduates.html</a> … or this one: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/927699-if-you-have-taken-world-history-already.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/927699-if-you-have-taken-world-history-already.html</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps. :)</p>
<p>Are we allowed to be specific about the essays now? It’s been more than 48 hours.</p>
<p>For the DBQ, my groupings were REALLY weird.</p>
<p>For the Change Over Time, I originally thought it was a Compare and Contrast essay, and I kind of wrote it as such. At the end, though, I was worried because I had basically just gone in time periods about major changes and similarities, so I added a changing and contrasting paragraph at the end. Basically, the whole essay, minus the last paragraph, was a Change Over Time. Do you think they’ll care that I compared at the end?</p>
<p>I thought the Compare and Contrast was the absolute easiest. The topic was so broad. </p>
<p>Am I allowed to be more specific now?</p>
<p>To be safe, it’s just best to wait until the FRQs are posted on the CB website. Remember, it is 48 hours after the LAST testing group (west coast, US, I assume) FINISHES. So, approximately 3 PM ET. For biology, they were posted around like 4 or 5 PM.</p>
<p>I really don’t think there is any harm though in discussing them three hours early.</p>
<p>@DocZach</p>
<p>I used Princeton Review and thought that it was a good review for the actual exam. There’s information about how to write good essays, answer multiple choice and two practice tests. I found my PR book to be more interesting than my textbook (we used the same book as you)The only complaint that I would have about PR is that the practice exam MC are much more difficult than those found on the real exam.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that people like Barron’s as well and that it goes more in depth than PR. I don’t know anything about Kaplan. But I would recommend PR and expect to receive a 4 or 5 on the test.</p>
<p>However, I didn’t think the World Civilizations textbook was that great. I do feel like it covered everything you need to know for the AP test, but there was also too much extra, useless information as well. It was dull to read, and this is coming from someone who likes history. But it does have a nice website with practice MC, outlines, etc. You may have a better experience with it than I had.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Here is what I did for the three essays:</p>
<p>DBQ: I grouped my documents according to how some mentioned poor conditions and increased machine-produced cotton goods as a similarity and how many women were impacted from the mechanization in each country as a different.</p>
<p>CCoT: For the change-over-time part, I wrote how the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Catholicism replaced the Aztec polytheistic beliefs and sacrifice traditions. For continuity, I wrote how Catholicism is still practiced today because many LA countries have Catholicism as their official religion and many people visit the Basillica.</p>
<p>Comparison: I compared the Han Empire and Imperial Rome. For similarity, I wrote how each was ruled by an emperor who basically divided political tasks among other people. For comparison, I wrote how China used civil service to determine political workers while Rome was based more on aristocracy and they allowed conquered territories to rule themselves.</p>
<p>Seem good?</p>
<p>Ummm… wasn’t the CCoT about religions in sub-Saharan Africa? Either you screwed up big time, I screwed up big time, or we somehow had different questions… (I took Form A)</p>
<p>CCOT had choices on regions. Both of you are correct.</p>
<p>^For CCoT, there were two options. One was Sub-Saharan Africa, the other was Latin America/the Carribean. I’m guessing Ronaldofan chose the latter.</p>
<p>Ohh, I didn’t remember that. lol Okay, phew.</p>
<p>DBQ: I had three groups. Two similarities (they both used labor from farm areas and used poor conditions and increased their cotton production through mechanization) and one difference (Japan used more female workers). I managed to work in some outside context about the Japanese view of women as lesser and weak, did all ten POVs, two extra sources. Surprisingly, it only took me like thirty five minutes to get it all done. Definitely my best.</p>
<p>CCoT: I chose the Sub-Saharan prompt. Islam was my constant throughout the period, and the introduction of Christianity by the Portugese and Europeans was my change. I talked a bit about syncretism and got in a bunch of facts, talked about what was happening in the Americas in the same time frame. This was probably my weakest one.</p>
<p>Comparison: I chose India and Han China. The similarity was their social orders, Confucianism and the caste system, which were needed to maintain political order through a lack of centralized government and the collapse of the dynasties. The difference was the lack of centralized gov’t and bureaucracy in India. I wasn’t sure if I should have done more similarities and differences, but I couldn’t think of anymore. But I got in a discussion about Imperial Rome for some global context, so hopefully that helps.</p>
<p>I was surprised at how easy the essays were. I knew a ton of information that I was able to work in, and I wasn’t stressed at all. The multiple choice seemed like a cakewalk too, esp. after I got a 65 on the Princeton Review (I was used to getting eighties on other practice tests).</p>
<p>Here’s what I wrote about:</p>
<p>For the DBQ, I analyzed POV in three or four of the documents, described the meaning of each one, and analyzed what the reasons for the respective outlooks/opinions were. I wrote my awesome essay, but then realized that I had forgot to group the documents! So in the last paragraph, I just made groupings, such as, “Doc. x, Doc. y, and Doc. z all represent opinions from workers in the factories”, for example. The ways that I grouped the documents include:
- By country (those that represent Japan, and those that represent India)
- From what perspective the document came (either a regular citizen (e.g. the Buddhist priest), the government (included the data charts), or a worker.
- The images, which represented advancement in technology/mechanization in both regions
- Whether the document supported or expressed aversion towards mechanization of the cotton industry
(I think that’s it)
I hope it’s not bad that I had to shove all of my groupings into a single paragraph instead of spreading them throughout the essay. </p>
<p>Missing docs: 1) Perspective of an Indian worker (they had a document representing Japanese female workers, but not Indian), to offer insight into Indian factory conditions. 2) A doc from a MALE worker. In India, only 20% of the workers were female and in Japan, 80% were female. Nothing gave insight to a male worker’s thoughts.</p>
<p>Comparisons: Both regions saw the greatest increase of mechanization occur between the years of 1904 and 1914. Both increased mechanical productivity and decreased hand-labor.</p>
<p>Contrasts: Only 20% of India’s workers were female while 80% of Japan’s workers were female. It seemed that industrialization was supported more in India (based on the economist’s document) and frowned upon in Japan.</p>
<p>DBQ took me the longest (after 40 minutes I was still working on it, but moved on to start my other essays; when done with those, I came back for another ~20 minutes). I think this is my strongest essay.</p>
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<p>For CCoT, I chose sub-Saharan Africa, and this is basically how my planning looked, and is an outline of my essay:
- Beginning of era: Animistic religions (polytheistic worshiping of nature gods and goddesses) were prominent, and were derived from Bantu-speaking ancestors. There were some regions (e.g. Ethiopia) that practiced Christianity.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Two things happened as time went on:
— 1) Islam was spread along the trans-Saharan trade route, mostly my Muslim merchants. Although Islam was contained mostly within north Africa and the Sahara, some of it did “seep” out into sub-Saharan Africa and naturally attracted converts.
— 2) Imperialism and colonization by Europe brought white settlers all throughout Africa, especially south Africa, where Christianity was sometimes forced upon the native people. Christianity also naturally attracted some of the natives. Christian missionaries and such contributed to the conversion of natives. </p></li>
<li><p>End of era (up to present-day): Christianity was more widespread, Islam was still mostly contained in the north, and some tribes/native-groups maintained their animistic beliefs by resisting Christian influence as well as colonist forces.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I could have included more, but I couldn’t delve deep enough into my knowledge of this region to do so. I think this is my second-strongest essay.</p>
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<p>For C/C, I chose Imperial Rome and Han China. I should have known this material because I studied it a lot, but since it specifically asked about the POLITICAL structures of each, it made it very specific, and I drew a blank. I came up with a bunch of BS, but I don’t really care to share because half of it is made up or isn’t even true. :p</p>
<p>I would say this is my third-strongest essay, but “weakest” seems more appropriate.</p>
<p>Well good luck to us both! Personally I don’t think the prompts were too hard though as long as they buy my “BS”.</p>
<p>Would talking about the Mandate of Heaven in Han China count as a difference because Rome had no such thing? Or did I screw up and the Han Chinese never used Mandate of Heaven?</p>
<p>Don’t take my word for it, but I’m pretty sure the MoH was around since the first dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou) and every empire in China thereafter continued to use it. But I’m not sure. I hope it’s right, because I talked about it too. :p</p>