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APWH. Taking the AP World History Exam. Breakdown of the Exam. STRATEGIES FOR THE MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION.

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  1. APWH Taking the AP World History Exam

  2. Breakdown of the Exam

  3. STRATEGIES FOR THE MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION • Guessing penalty: If you cannot narrow down the answers at all, it is against the odds to guess, so leave the answer sheet blank. However, if you can narrow down the answers by eliminating even one response, it is advantageous to guess. If you skip a question, be careful to skip down that line on the answer sheet. • Read the question carefully, especially in EXCEPT or NOT questions. • Eliminate any answer you know is wrong. • Read all of the possible answers, then choose the most accurate response. • Avoid absolute responses, such as answers that include the words “always” or “never.” • Mark and skip tough questions.

  4. AP World Themes Patterns and impacts or interaction among major societies: trade, war, diplomacy, and international organizations The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course. Impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).

  5. Themes continued Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change). Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies. Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward stat4es and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).

  6. Habits of Mind Habits of Mind are… • The tools you need to unlock the meaning from the content; • Not restricted to writing; • The tools you use in the classroom every day to think critically about the content of the course.

  7. Habits of Mind As a student in any rigorous history course, you should be able to do the following: Construct and evaluate arguments: use evidence to make plausible arguments; Use documents and other primary data: develop the skills necessary to analyze POV and context, and to understand and interpret information; Assess continuity and change over time and over different world regions; Understand diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, POV, and frame of reference.

  8. Habits of Mind As a world history student, you should also do the following: See global patterns and processes over time and space while connecting local developments to global ones; Compare within and among societies, including comparing societies’ reactions to global processes; Consider human commonalities and differences; Explore claims of universal standards in relation to culturally diverse ideas; Explore the persistent relevance of world history to contemporary developments.

  9. APWH Time Periods • Foundations (ca. 8000 BCE-600 CE) • 600-1450 • 1450-1750 • 1750-1914 • 1914-Present

  10. APWH GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS Be able to recognize and name the various regions of the world. In using the AP time periods, have a general understanding of what countries existed in the various regions.

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