STEPHANIE COSGROVE: Hi, everyone.
Welcome to AP Daily Practice Sessions.
My name is Stephanie Cosgrove, and I
teach at Coral Gables Senior High school
down in Miami, Florida.
Today, we're going to be learning
about the multiple choice questions.
And we're going to go over some tips that
will help you on the AP exam.
And we'll show you some multiple choice questions.
And let's go ahead and get started.
So some tips.
One of the most important things is read the entire question.
Don't skim it, read the whole question
and know what they're asking you.
The second thing is make sure you
read all of the answer choices.
Sometimes, there might be a couple
of choices that seem pretty good,
but you want to make sure that you answer all the answer
choices or you read all the answer choices.
Use the process of elimination, cross out the choices
that you know are wrong and select the best answer.
Remember, there might be two that sound OK,
but you're going to choose the best one.
And then last but not least, don't get stuck on a question.
You can always move ahead and come back to it.
So there are 60 questions in the multiple choice
portion of the exam.
You'll have 60 minutes to do those 60 questions.
So if you get stuck, go ahead and move on and then come back.
So once again, read the entire question,
read all the answer choices, use the process of elimination
and cross out the ones that you know are wrong,
select the best answer, and don't
get stuck on one question.
Let's go ahead and do some multiple choice questions.
So here we have the first one.
And remember, we're going to read the entire question,
and then we're going to look at all of the answers
and try to determine what is that question really asking us
and which is the best answer.
So let's do number 1 together.
Which of the following explains an unintended consequence
of China's antinatalist one-child policy.
So what is it asking?
An unintended consequence of China's antinatalist
list one-child policy.
Let's look at our choices.
A-- a dramatic reduction of the birth rate and decline
of the rate of natural increase rate,
resulting in lower population growth.
Well, that one is an intended consequence.
So we're going to cross that one out.
What about B?
Agricultural families were forced
to relocate to the nearest city to search
for employment resulting in increased urban population.
That one isn't really applying to what
our question is asking us.
So we're going to cross that one out.
Letter C. A projected shortage of working age people
to care for the rising elderly population
resulting in an increase in the cost of living
for older people.
That one sounds like that might be
an unintended consequence for that antinatalist one child
policy.
But let's read the other one.
So we'll put a question mark next to that.
Letter D. Decrease spending on childhood expenses
such as education and nursery supplies
results in a drop in domestic economic productivity.
That doesn't really tie into our question either.
And then finally, our last one, a decreased emphasis
on education due to the numbers of school age children
results in a loss of international competitiveness.
That doesn't really work.
Either that is not the best answer.
So we're going to go with C. And let's see if we were right.
Yeah.
It looks like we're right.
C was the right choice of which of the following
explains an unintended consequence of China's
antinatalist one child policy.
So let's look at a second question.
So tying in with our unit 2, we'll
do a second one with our population unit.
And here we have our question and our choices.
So again, we're going to read the question carefully and then
look at our choices.
Which of the following describes a concern
for a country with an aging population?
So it's asking about a concern with their aging population.
Letter A is a country's population ages.
The life expectancy for the younger population
of the country decreases when health care cost declines.
Well, that doesn't really make sense
for what the question is asking us.
So we're going to cross that one off.
B-- as a country's population ages, the infant mortality rate
decreases, and there is an increased need
for daycare centers.
So that doesn't make sense for what
the question is asking again.
Letter C-- as the proportion of older people in the country
increases, fewer young workers are
available to contribute to tax revenues
to support programs that provide services
to the older population.
That sounds like it can work.
So I'm going to put a question mark there
because we want to look at our other choices too.
So let's look at D. As the proportion of older people
in the country increases, the sex ratio
becomes disproportionately skewed towards male.
Well, that is actually not accurate
when the country is getting older.
So we are going to cross that one off.
And then let's look at E--
as the proportion of older people increases,
the total population decreases because older people do not
have children.
And that one isn't working for us either.
So let's go ahead and go with C and see
if that was the right choice and look at that.
It was.
So remember, we're going to cross off the ones that
just don't work for us.
And you can always put a question mark or a star
next to the ones that you think could potentially be.
Let's change things up and look at number 3.
And this one is going to revolve around threats
to state sovereignty.
So remember, we're going to read the question
and look at the choices.
Which of the following events could
be a threat to a state's sovereignty at the National
scale, well holding a region together at the global scale?
So what is this question asking?
We need to look at national scale.
A threat of a state sovereignty at the national scale while
holding a region together at the global scale.
So what about A-- a natural disaster
like an earthquake or tsunami occurring within the country.
That's not really holding a region together
at the global scale.
So we're going to definitely cross that one off.
What about B?
A member of the state's minority political party being
elected to lead the country.
Well, that's really just a national issue.
And that might not necessarily be a threat
to the state sovereignty.
So we're going to put an X through that.
Let's look at C. Admittance into a supranational organization
such as the European Union.
So we do know that when a country joins
a supranational organization, that they
do lose a little bit of their own sovereignty.
So we are going to put a question
mark, because we're going to look at the other ones.
What about D?
A decommitment to environmental resolutions
established by the UN.
That one sounds interesting, but decommitment
to environmental resolutions, that means that your state does
have sovereignty.
So we're going to cross that one out.
And the last one, letter C, a shift
from a federal system to a unitary system of governance
within a state.
That is a national issue.
We're not really looking at global scale.
So the best choice is going to be again
letter C. So let's do our very last question for this practice
session.
And let's look at number 4.
And this deals with ecotourism.
So let me pull up our choices and we have,
which of the following scenarios is best
explained by the increasing global popularity
of ecotourism?
So you have to know what ecotourism is.
We had to know what antinatalism meant in a previous question.
Here's another one of our vocabulary concepts.
And we have to know ecotourism.
So let's look at these five scenarios
and see which one is best explained
by increasing global popularity of ecotourism.
Could it be A-- the expansion of luxury resorts owned
by multinational corporations, hotel companies, along Thai
and Indonesian beaches that is based on tourist attraction
to tropical locations.
That's not what ecotourism is about.
So we are going to find the best scenario that's
dealing with ecotourism, and we're
going to cross out A. What about B?
High traffic and congestion at sites like Yellowstone National
Park due to tourists-increased desire
to experience the outdoors.
Well, that's-- high traffic and congestion is not in accordance
with ecotourism, which is all about sustainability.
So we're going to cross that one out too.
Letter C, the expansion of cruise experiences
that take passengers to multiple Caribbean and Central American
countries because tourists desire to experience
a variety of global cultures.
That is not following with our ecotourism path either.
And D-- the increased use of snowmobiles, aircraft,
and off-road vehicles by tour companies in Alaska
as people seek to experience more remote locations.
So this is not going with the concept of ecotourism.
Ecotourism remember, it's sustainable.
It's local, it's helping protect the environment.
Let's look at the last one.
Hopefully, this one will fit.
The development of small, locally-owned lodges
near ecological preserves in the Brazilian Amazon
due to tourists desire to benefit the local economy
and minimize their environmental impact.
So I like this one so much that I'm
going to put a star by that, not just a question mark.
And let's see if we were right, if I was right.
And boom.
We've got the letter E, we did it right.
So we just did four multiple choice questions.
It's really important that you remember some of those tips
where we're reading the entire question.
We're going to really think about what
is that question asking us.
We're going to read all of those answer choices.
And we are going to cross out the ones that we know
for sure do not work for us.
We'll pick the best answer, and we're not
going to get stuck on a question that we just don't know.
We're going to move on because remember,
we've got 60 minutes for 60 questions.
So we're reading the entire question,
we're going to read those answer choices,
we're going to use the process of elimination
and cross off the ones that we don't know
or we know that don't work.
And we'll select the best answer.
And we're not going to get stuck on questions.
So I hope that this was helpful for you,
and I thank you very much for your time.
And have a great day.
Thank you.