Advanced Placement World History (also known as AP World History, AP World or WHAP) is a college-level course offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program designed to help students develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts and interactions between different types of Human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The chronological time frame is from 8000 BCE to the present. The course is divided into five units consisting of the following time periods and big picture ideas: This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Each May, participating Canadian, American, and some international educational institutions offer the Advanced Placement examinations, the natural focal point of the Advanced Placement program. ... The CollegeBoard offers several awards to students who take AP exams. ... 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• Unit 1 - 8000 BCE to 600 CE - River Valley Civilizations, Classical civilizations: Rome, Han, and Gupta empires
• Unit 2 - 600 CE to 1450 CE - Rise and spread of Islam, Christianity, Nomadic Kingdoms, Indian and Chinese diplomacy
• Unit 3 - 1450 CE to 1750 CE - Columbian and hemispheratic exchange, gunpowder empires
• Unit 4 - 1750 CE to 1914 CE - Imperialism and colonialism
• Unit 5 - 1914 CE to present - World War I, World War II, and globalization

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The exam

The first section of the world history exam consists of 70 multiple choice questions with a 55 minute time limit. These questions are taken approximately evenly from each of the time periods addressed in the course. Questions are grouped in sets of five, ranging from easy to hard. Unlike other multiple-choice tests, random guessing can hurt your final score. While you don't lose anything for leaving a question blank, one quarter of a point is subtracted for each incorrect answer on the test. But if you have some knowledge of the question and can eliminate one or more answers, it's usually to your advantage to choose what you believe is the best answer from the remaining choices. This section is weighted as half of the total score.

The second section, the free-response section, consists of 3 essays which may be answered in any order. However, according to the Princeton Review by AP Grader Monty Armstrong, students should answer the DBQ first to get it out of the way.

• Document-based question (DBQ)
• Change And Continuity Over Time Question (CCoT)
• Comparative Question

This section begins with a 10 minute reading period, during which students are instructed to read through the documents in the DBQ and take notes if needed. After the reading period, students are given 120 minutes to write all 3 essays; notes taken during the reading period may be used. Students can receive a maximum of 27 points on these essays. Students are encouraged to pace themselves. The College Board recommends that students spend 5 minutes to plan and outline before writing each essay. A document-based question (DBQ), also known as data-based question or death by question because of the fear they inspire in students, is an essay or series of short-answer questions that is constructed by students using ones own knowledge combined with support from several provided sources. ...

Grade distribution

In the 2006 administration, 84,143 students took the exam from 2,849 schools. The mean score was a 2.62. Below is the grade distribution.

Grading

2007 AP World grading took place in early June in Fort Collins, Colorado at Colorado State University. Graders expected around 100,000 exams to grade.

External links

• AP World History at CollegeBoard.com
• AP History studycard for PDA and Cellphone