AP World History Testing Information
History—World The AP World History Exam is 3 hours and 5 minutes long and covers a full-year introductory college course. The exam contains:
· Fifty-five minutes of multiple-choice questions (there will be 70 multiple choice questions)
· A 10-minute reading period for the Document Based Questions (DBQ)
· A 40-minute DBQ (1 Question)
· A 40-minute question dealing with continuity and change over time (1 Question)
· A 40-minute comparative question focusing on broad issues in world history (1 Question)
Section I consists of 70 multiple-choice questions designed to measure the student's knowledge of world history from Period 1 to the present. This section follows the percentages listed below; questions will draw from individual or multiple periods:
· Technological and Environmental Transformations: to c. 600.B.C.E. 5%
· Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies: c. 600.B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E. 15%
· Regional and Transregional Interactions: c. 600 C.E. to c.1450 20%
· Global Interactions: c. 1450 to c. 1750 20%
· Industrialization and Global Integration: c. 1750 to c. 1900 20%
· Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: c. 1900 to Present 20%
The exam covers change and continuity across world history periods; interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state-building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures. The chronological frame of the course is the period from approximately 8000 BCE to the present.
Learn more:
· For students: AP World History Course Description, sample exam questions, and more
· http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_worldhist.html?worldhist
· For teachers: AP World History course and exam information and teaching resources
AP Resources: Click on the links below to view Exam Information; DBQ Sample Questions; Free-Response Questions and Multiple Choice Sample Questions