Looking for some quick hitting AP World History modern study tips?
Then stay tuned because in this video, we're going to go over 13 study tips
to help you score that four or that five on your AP world history exam.
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Without further ado, though, let's jump into these study tips.
The first tip is remember how much time you have to take this class.
You have either a full year or a semester to master this content.
So it's okay for you to take a deep breath before you start digging
into your AP World studying.
Tip two is to practice multiple choice questions from tests that you've taken
over the course of the school year.
Your teacher is going to have given you tons of quizzes and tests over
the course of the school year, that are going to replicate the sorts of
questions that you might see on testing.
So it can be helpful for you to create a mistake log for yourself, to log
specifically the questions that you got wrong and why you got them wrong the first
time that you answered that question.
The only way to get better when it comes to AP World is
to learn from your mistakes.
So by doing this sort of action of creating a mistake bug, you're going
to be able to better internalize specifically why you got these questions
wrong the first time and avoid making that same mistake the second time you
see that topic or unit or concepts covered on your AP World exam.
It might also be engaging and fun to create a little study group with your
classmates by approaching your teacher and forming little study groups to
talk about different questions that students commonly got wrong, or right.
By creating this sort of collaborative environment, it can be a great way for
you to hear from other students and how they interpreted that question that you
may have interpreted some other way.
Tip three is to construct your own free response questions based on the ones from
either the College Board or from Albert.
By doing this sort of action once a week, at least a month before your
exam, you're going to give yourself multiple practice opportunities to try
to understand the different ways that questions are going to be posed to you.
This forces you to do two things.
The first thing is that it helps you better understand the sorts of ways
that the test maker is going to ask you questions on the free response section.
And the second thing that helps you do is it helps you get exposure
to these questions and then forces you to start thinking about how you
might respond to these questions that you're creating for yourself.
Doing this is really helpful so that you can get used to them a lot of
time that you'll have to plan and then write your free response questions.
Tip four, is that if you're a visual learner, it can be helpful
for you to supplement your studying with some review videos.
YouTube can be a great place to find some free AP World History review
content from organizations like Crash Course or Khan Academy, or even from
just teacher creators that want to share the ways that they're teaching
that concept in their AP world classes.
Whatever creator's videos you end up enjoying, it can be helpful for you
to keep a video log and to summarize two to four key points from each
video that you're watching, just to make sure that you are actively
listening and experiencing the video when you are reviewing that content.
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Our fifth tip parallels our last tip, which is if you're more of an
auditory learner, it can be helpful for you to pick up some history
related podcasts to listen to.
These can be great ways for you to engage yourself with the content of
AP World History, beyond the scope of just what your teacher's teaching
you or the different supplemental things you find on YouTube.
You might find podcasts like Head On History or Dig to be some sources of
inspiration for yourself as you're working way through your AP World studying.
Whatever you end up listening to, like we mentioned last time, it
can be helpful for you to summarize two to three key takeaways from
every episode that you listened to.
Tip six, is that if you're a tactile learner, you might
find it helpful for you too.
Rewrite the notes that you took in class or the notes that you took from
your readings assigned from class.
This might sound a little old school, but it's been proven through
studies that physically writing out notes again, and again, can be a
helpful way for you to internalize different things that you learned.
Tip seven is to time yourself when it comes to the multiple choice section.
You're going to get 55 questions and 55 minutes to answer every single question.
This means that you have about a minute per question.
So you want to make sure that you're not spending a minute and a half
or two and a half minutes on one question and not leaving yourself
enough time to finish every single question on your AP world history exam.
Pacing is super important and there's tons of ways that you can practice
pacing that don't require you to block 55 minutes for every single study session.
For example, if you want to just try to practice the pacing of a minute per
question, you might create a practice set of 10 questions or 20 questions, and
then set aside 10 minutes or 20 minutes to practice those particular questions.
Then over time, once you've built up your stamina, you can prep yourself
for a full 55 minutes study session.
Our eighth tip is to practice constructing responses to
your document based questions.
You may find this daunting because you have to source documents in your
writing, but you might find a resource like Albert helpful because we provide
practice DBQs for you to work through.
Just like our earlier free response question tip, we recommend that you block
at least one day a week, a month leading up to your exam to practice your DBQs.
When you do this, you're going to want to practice with the same time
constraints you're going to have on test day, which means you have
60 minutes to answer a full DBQ.
When you're practicing your DBQ responses, it's really important
that you try to incorporate every single document in your writing.
When you start practicing here, remember that students struggle
most when it comes to incorporating documents into their writing.
So attempt to incorporate every single document that
you're given into your writing.
This way, when it comes to test day, it's going to feel like second nature to use
every single document that you're given.
And you're going to feel super confident about how you're responding
to your document based question.
Tip nine is to practice free response questions and understand
key turning points in history.
This is a little related to our earlier tip of writing your
own fear response questions.
But in this tip, we want you to actually be practicing through
the free response questions that the College Board provides to you.
To pull this off, you need to have a good understanding
of the key themes in history.
Make sure you understand how unit one relates to unit two, two to
three, three to fou and so on.
Once you understand how every single historical period connects to one
another, you can start to draw comparisons or contrast to each specific time
period or event that you're asked on.
We've talked about free responses, multiple choice, and DBQs at this
point, this leaves you with just the SAQs to make sure that you're also
studying these for your AP World exam.
In this section, you're going to have 40 minutes to answer three
questions, which means you have about 13 minutes for every single question.
It's really important that you practice being succinct in your responses.
It's really important that you understand the bulk of the course material
because questions one and two are going to be talking about historical
developments or processes that happened between the years of 1200 and 2001.
The nice thing about the third short answer question is that they give you the
choice between questions three or four.
Question three is going to cover something between the time periods of
1200 and 1750 whereas question four is going to cover something between
the time periods of 1750 and 2001.
So it's nice here in that you have a little bit of choice if you feel like
you know the more recent events better than the earlier events in world history.
Tip 11 is to try and study with a classmate.
If you don't have a classmate readily available, it might be
helpful to study with a sibling or family member or somebody that
can lend you a listening ear.
The importance of this for you is practicing how you articulate
certain themes or concepts from class and making sure that you can
actually do so in a coherent manner.
You might also find it helpful to form a small group and then
have a Socratic seminar in which people are asking questions about
particular things with one another.
That way you can build off of each other and learn together.
Tip 12 is to trust that your teacher has prepared you well.
Feel free to use notes or PowerPoint resources that your teacher
may have shared with you over the course of the school year.
In the case where you are self studying for AP World History, or you
don't have that resource available, you'd be surprised the number of free
resources that you can find online.
There are tons of teachers that have publicly shared their class presentations.
So it isn't all that hard to find some quality presentations
for you to study from.
As you use these resources, it's important for you to highlight the
topics that you are struggling with and then spend the bulk of your
study time working on those topics.
Where students sometimes struggle is they spend so much time reviewing things
that they already know really, really well, that they don't leave enough time
for them to actually improve on their weaknesses and and boost their score.
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There, you have it, 13 quick study tips to help you prepare
for your AP World History exam.
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