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Download free-response questions from past AP World History exams, along with scoring guidelines, sample responses from exam takers, and scoring distributions.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS. SECTION I, Part A. Time – 55 minutes 55 Questions. Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by four suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then enter the appropriate letter in the corresponding place on the answer sheet.
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- Question 1—Document-Based Question
- B. Contextualization (0–1 points): 1
- Demonstrating Complex Understanding
- Document Sourcing
- Demonstrating Complex Understanding
- B. Contextualization (0–1 points): 0
- Evidence Beyond the Documents
Note: Student samples are quoted verbatim and may contain spelling and grammatical errors.
The response earned 1 point for contextualization in the first paragraph for a wide-ranging discussion of imperial, colonial, and economic developments relevant to Asia, Africa, and Europe. Multiple specific examples (such as the Industrial Revolution, the American wars of independence, the reference to a “second wave of imperialism,” etc.) show a ...
The response earned 1 point for complexity. Already in the introductory paragraph, the response demonstrates a complex understanding of the causes and consequences of European imperialism, as well as the interconnections between imperialism and economic activity. Throughout the response, evidence from the documents as well as additional evidence is...
The response did not earn the point for sourcing the documents because it does not attempt sourcing analysis of any documents.
The response did not earn the point for complexity. There is no attempt to demonstrate a complex understanding of the extent to which European imperialism affected economies in Africa and/or Asia.
The response did not earn the point for contextualization. The second sentence of the first paragraph contains an attempt to situate imperialism historically, but it is too vague and overgeneralized to.
The response did not earn the point for evidence beyond the documents because it provides no additional pieces of specific historical evidence relevant to the prompt.
The AP World History Exam is 3 hours and 15 minutes long and includes both a 95-minute Overview. multiple-choice and short-answer section (Section I) and a 100-minute free-response section (Section II). Each section is divided into two parts, as shown in the table below.
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Below is our AP World History Unit 2 practice test on Networks of Exchange. This unit continues to explore the period 1200–1450, but shifts focus on how regions and cultures were connected. Topics inclue routes and networks, cross-cultural interactions, the Mongol Empire, and more.
