So, How Is The AP Test Structured?

Introduction

After you’ve spent the year handing in your assignments last minute, stressing your ass off after every test, and crying after getting a 70 on that DBQ, you finally have to face the AP test. So let’s skip all the studying and focus on what the test actually has to offer for you. We all know you can just see how the Test is structured on the official college board website. Like there’s 55 minutes for 55 multiple choice questions, 40 minutes for 3 SAQ questions, 1 hour for a DBQ and finally 40 minutes for an LEQ. OK, that is a lot for 1 paragraph, so lets break this up into multiple sections.

Le Multiple Choice Question or MCQ

So in this section you have 55 minutes to do 55 questions. That’s basically a question a minute. If there’s about 3-4 questions per document with and there’s 55 questions, then there are probably going to be 13-15 documents you gotta read. Now that seems like a lot you have to do in 55 minutes. Here are some simplified strategies I have for the multiple choice that might help you.

Tips and strategies for Multiple Choice

• Don’t read documents when you don’t have to, that wastes time
• If you are able to answer a question based on prior knowledge, then answer the question
• Look at the end of documents to see the year it was published, the people that the documents are affiliated with, and the title of the document, and based on that you can knock off simple questions
• If you get stuck on a question, leave it and come back to answer it later
• Try to answer more than 1 question a minute so you can be ahead of the time
• Do the multiple choice twice, so basically do it once where you skim through the multiple choice and documents and answer most to all the questions. Then you would do it again where you would reread the documents thoroughly and re answer the questions or answer the questions you didn’t get to when you did it the first time(I hope that wasn’t confusing)
• When you truly ran out of time and you can’t read anymore, just fill in the remaining bubbles with random answers(some of them are bound to be right)
• The Multiple choice test going from chronological order, so start off the test by thinking about the 1200s, and as you go on keep thinking about further and further dates until you reach basically present day by the end of the test.
• Actually practice some AP World Multiple Choice questions on your own rather than only reading or watching about how exactly to go about doing these questions

Le Short Answer Questions or SAQ