Course Description:
AP World History: Modern explores significant events, individuals, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop skills such as analyzing sources, building historical arguments, and understanding connections across time and place, centered around questions.
Course Themes:
Humans and the Environment
Cultural Developments and Interactions
Governance
Economic Systems
Social Interactions and Organization
Technology and Innovation
Class Structure:
Our class fosters inquiry and challenges preconceived notions through active participation and engagement. Our class is designed to deep dive into the skills needed to perform the best on the AP test whilst outside of class students are practicing the broad strokes of the content. We uncover all content from 1200- Present. Our goal is to support the students and give them the best opportunity to, if they do the work, to pass the AP Exam in May while balancing their engagement in social studies.
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Do not stress, the year will be over before you know it.
What does the AP Test look like?
Exam Format
The AP World History: Modern Exam has consistent question types, weighting, and scoring guidelines, so you and your students know what to expect on exam day.
Section I, Part A: Multiple Choice
55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of Exam Score
Questions usually appear in sets of 3–4 questions.
Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.
Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.
Section I, Part B: Short Answer
3 Questions | 40 Minutes | 20% of Exam Score
Students analyze historians’ interpretations, historical sources, and propositions about history.
Questions provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know best.
Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps.
Students choose between 2 options for the final required short-answer question, each one focusing on a different time period:
Question 1 is required, includes 1 secondary source, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1200 and 2001.
Question 2 is required, includes 1 primary source, and focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1200 and 2001.
Students choose between Question 3 (which focuses on historical developments or between the years 1200 and 1750) and Question 4 (which focuses on historical developments or processes between the years 1750 and 2001) for the last question. No sources are included for either Question 3 or Question 4.
Section II: Document-Based Question and Long Essay
2 questions | 1 Hour, 40 minutes | 40% of Exam Score
Document-Based Question (DBQ)
Recommended time: 1 Hour (includes 15-minute reading period) | 25% of Exam Score
Students are presented with 7 documents offering various perspectives on a historical development or process.
Students assess these written, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence.
Students develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.
The document-based question focuses on topics from 1450 to 2001
Long Essay
Recommended time: 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score
Students explain and analyze significant issues in world 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 primarily on historical developments and processes in different time periods—either 1200–1750 (option 1), 1450–1900 (option 2), or 1750–2001 (option 3).
Find all additional information on these subjects or specifics at: AP World History: Modern Exam – AP Central | College Board