AP exam prep

Checking out the official site of the Euro exam is your first order of business – particularly the EXAM TIPS. It provides both a thorough description of the exam, content and scoring, and a collection of past exams (not the multiple choice sections, however).

IMPORTANT INSIGHT: most of the scoring on the exam concerns your writing. You will write a DBQ of course, but also two substantive, free-form essays (FRQ). These three essays must be nailed — with thesis, clear argument, and substantial factual support — in order to earn a 4 or 5.

You should also face the fact that I do not expect to cover post-war (WWI) in much detail, and we will only get there AFTER you take the exam. This means that you will need to manage a brief ‘review’ to extract pure content. This can be handled in several ways: 1) check out one of the AP review books in the library and skim through the chapters on the 20th century, 2) Surf through this particularly good review site from Horace Greeley HS, 3) and finally, READ, READ, READ! Especially the final few chapters of the textbooks on reserve in the library; Modern European History by Birdsall s. Viault. (particularly good for review), Spielvogel and Colton&Palmer provide succinct, if dry, narratives that cover the essentials. A few Wikipedia articles might also be helpful. Here’s a partial list to get you started:

AP PREP for World War One

 

Below are some quick-style review/prep pages for the AP Exam. Of course these provide neither exhaustive coverage nor a complex understanding of the issues, but may help you when it comes to sitting the AP exam in May.

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION and STALINISM

 

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