Essay Rubrics Link: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/rubrics-ap-histories.pdf
Section I: Part A
Multiple Choice — 55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of Exam Score
- Questions appear in sets of 2 to 5.
- Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.
- Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.
Section I: Part B
Short Answer — 3 Questions | 40 Minutes | 20% of Exam Score
- Questions provide opportunities for students to explain the historical examples that they know best.
- Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps.
- The question choices will continue to focus on the same theme and skill but will now allow students to select among three options, each focusing on a different range of time periods:
Section II: Part A
Document Based — 1 Question | 60 Minutes (includes 15-minute reading period) | 25% of Exam Score
- Analyze and synthesize historical data
- Assess written, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence.
Section II: Part B
Long Essay — 1 Question | 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score
- Explain and analyze significant issues in world history.
- Develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.
-The question choices will continue to focus on the same theme and skill but will now allow students to select among three options, each focusing on a different range of time periods:
Please pay close attention to the directive words in the essay questions. Ignoring directives will result in a lower exam score. The following directives may be included:
• Analyze: determine their component parts; examine their nature and relationship
• Assess/evaluate: judge the value or character of something; appraise; evaluate the positive and negative points; give an opinion regarding the value of; discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
• Compare: examine for the purpose of noting similarities and differences
• Contrast: examine in order to show dissimilarities or points of difference
• Describe: give an account of; tell about; give a word picture of
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