LEQ

Long Essay Recommended time: 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score

Students explain and analyze significant issues in U.S. history.

Students develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.

The question choices focus on the same skills and the same reasoning process (e.g., comparison, causation, or continuity and change), but students choose from 3 options, each focusing on historical developments and processes from a different range of time periods—either 1491–1800 (option 1), 1800–1898 (option 2), or 1890–2001 (option 3).