EXAM FORMAT
Exam: PART 1 -- 55 Minutes for 55 Stimulus Questions & 50 Minutes 4 SAQ (1 SAQ contains 2 or 3 parts)
MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAMPLE
SAQ (SHORT ANSWER RESPONSE) EXAMPLE
Exam: PART 2 -- 90 Minutes for 1 DBQ and 1 LEQ
LEQ EXAMPLE
YOUR WHAP TEACHER WILL PREPARE YOU FOR CONQUERING THIS MISSION! EVEN THOUGH THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ESSAYS MAY SEEM CONFUSING AND SHOCKING, YOUR WHAP TEACHERS WILL TRAIN YOU!!! ( no rips or kms allowed)
ESSAY FORMATTING
HELPFUL WEBSITES
Freeman-pedia offers concise and short summaries with pictures (yay!) for WHAP time periods. This is a great website to use if you are a visual learner or need a general summary for for you are learning in class (period wise such as Classical and Post-Classical).
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AP Worldipedia gives detailed explanation for AP World History's key concepts. It is very helpful for quiz, tests, and exam reviews. However, each key concept has a long page with details and analysis you may or may not need in order to survive.
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Albert IO AP WORLD HISTORY offers great AP style questions for different units (covers ALL units we learn in class!). Doing these questions will help you greatly for studying and reviewing for quizzes and tests! LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE
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CollgeBoard releases its past exams' free response questions two days after the actual is exam is taken. Reviewing and possibly doing the past exams (by yourself) can greatly help to you in adapting to the testing environment and pacing yourself. Also, if you ever do the pass exams, do not forget to score your writings not only by yourself through the scoring guide, but also by your WHAP teachers. The WHAP teachers will be unbiased on points and score only on your writing, not your thinking in your head.
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AP World History 101 provides details about the ancient Mesoamerican and South American civilizations such as Maya and Inca empires. Your textbook does not explain the Mesoamerican empires in the details that you need. When you are learning about the Mesoamerican civilizations, this website will be the most helpful in guiding you through the Mesoamerican civilizations.
*When you press the website button, you will see Olmec civilizations. There are other civilizations avaliable (in different tabs) if you at the words under the gigantic Olmec colossal head. |
If you don't understand a specific topic that you are learning in class, make sure you go to Crash Course World History and watch the video about the topic that you are confused about. Crash Course World History contains almost all the videos you will watch in your WHAP class. Its videos contain necessary and important details and simple explanations. This is very essential for you and make sure you don't fall asleep during Crash Course. John Green has some deep and analytical conclusions along with relatable jokes towards target concepts.
Also, there are World History I and World History II playlists. World History I playlist contains videos that are specific such as the Peloponnesian War and Ming Dynasty, while World History II playlist contains generalized topics such as famine and wars throughout history. I |
This PDF version of Crash Course World History is helpful on reviewing for topics. Because it is made for 2012 WHAP exam, its multiple choice and writing sections are not relative to your AP exam but you still can use multiple choice section for reviewing and recalling different topics. You can save the PDF file of this below.
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Feeling the need to find good and interesting articles for time-outs? We were in the exact place as you are! This is THE MOST HELPFUL website ever created by man to help you learn and discover the most recent archaeological finds. The website's information also comes from trustful sources, including BBC News, The Guardian, Nature Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and more. It's a super interesting website with lots of information that will surely ease your stress in your last minute time-outs cramming!
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THEMES OF WORLD HISTORY
1. Interaction between humans and the environment
- Demography and disease
- Migration
- Pattern of settlement
- Technology
2. Development and interaction of cultures
- Religions
- Belief systems, philosophies & ideologies
- Science & technology
- the arts and architecture
3. State-building, expansion, and conflict
- Political structures and forms of governance
- Empires
- Nations and nationalism
- Revolts and revolutions
- Regional, transregional and global structures and organizations
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
- Agriculture and pastoral production
- Trade and commerce
- Industrialization
- Capitalism and socialism
5. Development and transformation of social structure
- Gender roles and relations
- Family and kinship
- Racial and ethnic constructions
1. Interaction between humans and the environment
- Demography and disease
- Migration
- Pattern of settlement
- Technology
2. Development and interaction of cultures
- Religions
- Belief systems, philosophies & ideologies
- Science & technology
- the arts and architecture
3. State-building, expansion, and conflict
- Political structures and forms of governance
- Empires
- Nations and nationalism
- Revolts and revolutions
- Regional, transregional and global structures and organizations
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
- Agriculture and pastoral production
- Trade and commerce
- Industrialization
- Capitalism and socialism
5. Development and transformation of social structure
- Gender roles and relations
- Family and kinship
- Racial and ethnic constructions