Are you struggling with your APUSH multiple choice section?
Then stay tuned because in this video, we're going to go over nine tips to
help you tackle the multiple choice section of your AP US History exam
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Without further ado, let's jump into these nine tips.
The first tip that you can do in your multiple choice section is to
make sure that you are thoroughly marking up everything as you read it.
By doing so, you're going to be practicing active reading, which
is way better than passive reading.
The reason why is because it helps you understand what you're
actually being asked in the question that's being presented to you.
For example, you might have a system where you circle or underline key
phrases or put stars and Xs in your questions that take more time for you.
Whatever the case may be, the purpose of this is for you to have
a system for yourself that you can consistently replicate come test day.
You get 55 minutes to complete 55 questions, which gives you more than
enough time for you to adequately mark up the questions and make sure that you are
understanding what's being asked of you.
The second big multiple choice tip for you is to cross out obviously wrong answers.
The reason why this is helpful is because if you can just eliminate one or two
clearly wrong answers, you significantly increase your odds of getting that
multiple choice question right.
Here we have the question that cites, "The image most directly
reflects which of the following developments during the early 1940s.
Answer choice A, the war time repression of civil liberties.
Answer choice B, the emergence of the United States as a world power.
Answer choice C, the limited access to consumer goods during war time
and D, the wartime mobilization of United States society.
As you can probably tell from this image, it depicts women in the
workplace constructing what looks like a World War II era of airplane.
Something I want you to notice is how answer choice A
includes the word repression.
Does this image look like repression?
Not really.
So we can probably cross that out.
How about choice B, the US as a world power?
Sort of, but not really.
So we might want to put a circle next to it as a maybe.
Answer choice C, limited access to consumer goods.
No, that definitely doesn't relate to this particular question.
So we can probably cross out answer choice C.
And D, wartime mobilization of US society.
Well, these women are mobilized during the war.
So now we can decide between answer choices B and D.
Which answer choice is more true between B and D?
In this case, we're going to choose D which relates to the war time mobilization
efforts across the United States.
Notice how by using the process of elimination, we were able to
significantly increase our odds of getting this question right.
Tip number three is to use context clues to help you find the answer.
Sometimes you might not necessarily know the exact date
as to when something happened.
But if you can kind of place it between two other dates or events that you do
know, you can improve your chances of getting that particular question right.
For example, if a question asks you about the Gettysburg Address, you can think
about the contextual things that were happening in history around that time.
Doing so you might come up with concepts related to the civil war, states' rights
as well as slavery or abolitionism.
When you think about history more from the lens of pieces of a puzzle and
the broader scheme of things, you can start to think about what you already
know and what you don't know to fill in the gaps towards what you don't know.
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Tip four when it comes to tackling your AP US History multiple choice is to look
for clues from prior questions to help you answer later questions on the exam.
For example, you might have question five on your exam talking about
the civil rights act of 1964.
Then question eight might cover something related to the general nature of
American culture in the mid sixties.
This really connects back to that point in which it's important to consider history
of from the lens of pieces of a puzzle.
By doing so you'll be able to better contextualize what was
happening exactly in that moment or directly after that event or time
period or before that time period.
Tip five is to take an educated guess when you run out of time.
To quote Wayne Gretzky, "You Miss a 100% of the Shots You Don't Take" and that's
especially true when it comes to your AP US History multiple choice section.
The thing is you don't miss any points for getting questions wrong.
You only score points on things that you get right.
So in the case where you're running out of time and you have 10 questions
left, but two minutes to answer them, just put in an answer for something
for the remaining 10 questions.
It's way better than leavingeight of those questions blank while only getting
to answer one of those questions.
Tip six is to pace yourself at the rate of a question per minute.
If you feel like a question is taking way more than one minute, then it's
better for you to move on and come back to that question later on in your exam.
Just use whatever system you came up with from tip number one to either
circle, underline or star that particular question, and then come back to it later.
It is far better for you to make sure that you have enough time to answer every
single question than it is for you to get super stuck on one question when every
single question is weighted the same.
If possible, pace yourself at 45 seconds per question by doing so you'll
give yourself some extra minutes for you to double check your work and
review any of these questions that you potentially flagged the first
time that you saw them on the exam.
Tip seven is to pay attention to the wording of questions.
It's really important that you are actually answering the thing
that is being asked of you.
So for example, when there's a distinction between which of the following is,
and which of the following is not, you want to make sure that you're
actually answering the particular thing that's being asked of you.
The same applies when you're looking at answer choices.
When you see answer choices, like all of the above or none of the
above, you have to understand that these answer choices are in totality.
That means that every single answer choice needs to either apply to
it or not apply to the particular question that's being asked of you.
Tip eight is to practice using Albert or any reliable study resource
when it comes to AP US History.
Ultimately, AP US History is not that much different than other AP
exams in that practice makes perfect.
It's all about getting enough practice before test day so that by
the time test day comes around, you feel super comfortable and confident
to take that particular test.
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studying and then score that four or five on your AP US History exam.
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Tip nine is to make sure that you're using flashcards.
Whether it's physical flashcards or flashcards that you found on Quizlet or
made on Quizlet, this can be super helpful for you to review key concepts, people
and events that happened in AP US History.
To do so effectively, we recommend blocking 30 minutes from Monday
through Friday to review key things that you learned in class either
a week ago, or a few weeks ago.
By doing this, you'll be able to better retain what you learned in class, and
then cut down on the amount of time you actually need to study in those
final weeks leading to the exam.
Remember every 30 minutes study session that you take over the course
of a school year is going to get you closer and closer to passing
and excelling on your APUSH exam.
There you have it, nine tips to help you tackle your AP US
History multiple choice section.
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