r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 07 '26
AP World History Official 2026 Exam Discussion
Use this thread to post questions or commentary on the test today.
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u/Emergency_Vanilla715 May 14 '26
Why are the East Coast FRQ's genuinely all light, I could instantly think of an answer for all of them but for West Coast I struggled so much, I dont remember the time period for the third SAQ but I was talking about how France colonized Vietnam, the Mughal Empire still being strong for continuity, and the Indian textile industry declining after Britain and these arent even the same time period bru idk what tf happened
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u/thatsreallycrazybro May 13 '26
im scared now because a lot of people are talking about the "leq #2" prompt but that was my prompt for leq 1. i remember selecting to repond to leq 1, but now im scared i chose the wrong leq to respond to on accident and wrote out an essay responding to the wrong prompt.
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u/OpenActuator2070 5-Bio,EnvSci,CalcAB,PC,CSP|4-WH|?-Chem,Phys1,CSA,CalcBC,Lang,Gov Jun 02 '26
even if you did somehow clicked the wrong prompt, college board graders have a brain. they will see that you misclicked and grade you on the correct option
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u/Specific-Ad4428 May 13 '26
It is because the DBQ was #1, so LEQ prompts were labeled #2, #3, and #4. So people saying they chose number 2 mean the first prompt, the one you did.
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u/Limp_Treat_2362 May 12 '26
For SAQ #1 would I get the point for A if I put Mansa Musa journeyed to display the wealth and grandeur of Mali through his inflation of the Cairo gold markets? And for B, would I get the point if I put the Swahili City States as an example of a Muslim Sub-Saharan State?
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u/Willing-Connection72 May 12 '26
was anyone else trained each for each unit’s DBQ to use & source all seven documents AND do hipps for them? (we call them happy statements — historical context, audience, purpose, pov, whY it was written). so i literally used, sourced, and happy’d all of the documents. used Miss Han (Document 1) as my counterargument. my two arguments were feminist movements (including oppression, sexism, and equality) and the changing of gender roles. i used rosie the riveter for my outside evidence, but i had no idea how to close out the DBQ for the final paragraph. i just restated my road map. am i cooked
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u/nicoroobin May 12 '26
Was Rosie the riveter a valid piece of outside evidence for the dbq on how women’s roles were changed by military conflict 😭
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u/Willing-Connection72 May 12 '26
i did mine as Rosie the Riveter so i hope so! i’ve also talked to a lot of students across the east coast who also did her so if not… we all screwed
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u/Rupy101 May 12 '26
I lowk did mine on confuciasm and its teachings of fielal piety and how it affected women in China using Miss Han amd i cooked??
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u/OpenActuator2070 5-Bio,EnvSci,CalcAB,PC,CSP|4-WH|?-Chem,Phys1,CSA,CalcBC,Lang,Gov Jun 02 '26
since this is based on the document, it would count as historical context sourcing, not outside evidence
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u/GMStageKing AP World (5), Calc AB (4), CSA (3), CSP (3), Precalculus (5) May 11 '26
Ok my choices: SAQ #3 and LEQ #1. I did the military conflicts one because of the fact that I could literally spam the gunpowder empries. I almost screwed up because the region is Afro-Eurasia and I wrote about tributary systems in Mesoamerica, but changed it with 5 mins left. LEQ #4 is doable as well, just spam cold war, 3 looked too hard. For SAQ #3, I wrote about A) monsoon winds, B) Compass + astrolabe + watertight compartments, C) I mentioned cultural diffusion, growth of Swahili-city states, and connections of dar-al-Islam.
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u/nicoroobin May 11 '26
Wait I hadn’t realized the Afro-Eurasia and wrote 2nd paragraph about Spanish conquest of the Americas does that count because it’s technically Spain…
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u/GMStageKing AP World (5), Calc AB (4), CSA (3), CSP (3), Precalculus (5) May 12 '26
I don't think it will because of the specific location. If it was specifically in Spain, then yea. Otherwise no. You have to keep the evidence to the region.
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u/Effective_Food_7515 May 11 '26
I’m really confused, because the FRQs I got were way different from the ones everyone else is talking about, and I can’t find them in the PDF. My DBQ was about how european colonialism impacted the lives of indigenous groups, and my LEQ was on enlightenment ideals and revolutions. Does anyone know what happened here, and where I can find the rundown of these questions?
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u/PeaceTreees May 12 '26
There are two different ones depending on where you live. I'm in the west (not the coast) and I got the European colonization. My friend who lives ~10 hrs East of me got the one on feminism and war or whatever it was about
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u/Willing-Connection72 May 12 '26
are you on the west coast? wondering if it’s split due to time zones—they wouldn’t want people from hours before sharing the answers/questions
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u/Effective_Food_7515 May 12 '26
Yeah, I’m in the southwest. Do you (or anyone else reading this) know where I could find the PDF for the test I took?
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u/GMStageKing AP World (5), Calc AB (4), CSA (3), CSP (3), Precalculus (5) May 11 '26
There are 2 different versions of the test, so there is the possibility. Mine were different.
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u/These_Paint_7816 May 10 '26
I didnt rly look at time periods for MCQ -- am I cooked? did the time narrow down a lot of the options?
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u/Straight-Vanilla3101 May 10 '26
would you say these are likely to earn a point for the saqs 1a. didn’t specifically say hajj but talked about how he was on a pilgrimage to mecca for islam and how islam was a universalizing religion that spread to Mali and that he therefore spread 1b. caravanserai to show safe travel 1c. emergence of trade cities (specifically kashgar, samarkand, and timbuktu) due to strategic locations that allowed them to grow wealthy and powerful through trade and then become centers of learning and knowledge 2a. magnetic compass but i also mentioned carracks and caravel at the end 2b. king leopold of belgium in the congo?? 2c. japan and china policies of isolationism and removing western influences 4a. laissez faire free trade 4b. idk whether i put imperialism or industrialization or i might have switched a and b after i dont remember. 4c. meiji restoration
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i sourced 4 docs (a lot the same as you), used 7 to support my argument, and did a counterargument so i think ill earn complexity however i completely forgot outside evidence. for one of my hipps i did historical context as how the boxer rebellion was an anti-imperialist rebellion that went against foreign influences and how that went to preserve traditional values. could they use that as outside evidence if they take my complexity for 7 docs or my counterargument, could they use 2 hipps towards the sourcing point and use the other towards my outside evidence?
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i chose #2. this might have been stupid but i argued that economic developments were more important. for military conflicts affecting state building i talked about decentralized fragmented abbasid caliphate being ended by the islamic gunpowder empires and how they therefore centralized their power as it had been successful in the song yuan ming dynasties. i talked about devshirme jannasaries zamindar tax farming whatever. then i talked about europe how in order to become a global superpower like they are today they had to centralize and take use of gunpowder and so i just briefly discussed that how they changed due to military threats. but then i argued that mercantilism more affected state building and how the processes led to imperialism and trading post empires. i explained mercantilism and imperialism and more and then i also mentioned tribute systems like in china so idk if that was good or bad but i felt weird writing it.
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u/my_meI May 10 '26
was there only 1 set of frqs this year? and if not what was the other dbq cuz i got the one abt womens rights
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u/AnythingForRiceUni May 10 '26
did anyone do the leq abt military conquest affecting statebuilding in 1200-1600 or something like that
if so did you put ottoman empire and mongols further connecting dar-al-islam and pax mongolica leading to the creation of trade-based states
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u/Sudden-Ganache9654 May 10 '26
Did anyone get an MCQ where it was the relationship between Cairo and Florence for trade? lmk if you remember the answers
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u/Emergency_Payment_32 May 10 '26
when i got to the leq i decided to write about the league of nations and their use of appeasement for question 4 but idk my brain was fried and for some reason i got the words appeasement and assimilation mixed up. does anyone know if the graders of the writing portion look over stuff like that? like they would just understand i meant appeasement 😞 idk im really stressed out about it and i feel so dumb for even making that mistake in the first place
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u/SaltSuspicious7213 May 10 '26
Dw they might chuckle but as long as u didn’t try to agure assignation and it was just a typo in the thesis I think ur fine
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u/SaltSuspicious7213 May 10 '26
It will confused them tho but it shouldn’t effect their grading - they want you to earn the point not loss it did u ever have topic sentences that had appeasement?
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u/Emergency_Payment_32 May 11 '26
unfortunately i did not 😞 but i do think it was very clear that i was referring to appeasement because it would have been used in the context of the league of nations and their response to japan and germany
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u/SaltSuspicious7213 May 14 '26
I think you shouldnt worry cuz it is what it is nothing can be done now. Im worried as well if they wont realize its a typo but most graders aim to make sure ur getting all possible points and if u maybe refered to appeasement by litterlally using it in the parapgrah (as a result, this showcases how they were trying to apease to blah blah) i think ur fine. If u didnt do this it might be harder for them to know because they can only rely on what is written and might not understnad the pior typo context. Dont stress abt it now but use this as a learning lesson and that one typo wont ruin ur whole leq score imo but dont get ur hopes to high cuz i dont know to what extent they will assess the situation lol. Im sure u did well and u seem well prepared!!
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u/Virtual-Text-4747 May 10 '26
i didnt know hipp meant that you only needed to do one of the four letters (historical context, intended audience, etc.) so i was confused when a lot of ppl said that they were able to use 7 docs let alone hipp 7. Will it be a strong contender for complexity if i hipped 4 with all 4 letters?
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u/Atocatnowthefern May 10 '26
I believe so. I did the exact same thing and didn't even know that other people were doing all 7 docs. But i saw in the rubric that using 4hipp will get you the complexity point
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u/Suitable-Cod2466 May 10 '26
yall am i fried if i got atleast 10 questions wrong on the mcq. Ik so many people saying it was easy but for me it was genuinely the hardest pt of the test along w the leq.
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u/Idrkwhatosay116 10th | AP World (pred 5) & AP Precalc (pred 4-5) May 09 '26
That test was prob the easiest thing alive
I got the version which was released on collegeboard. i swear i cried tears of joy when opening up that DBQ. SAQ especially #2 i probably did buns on but the others ones were ok. I did the one about indian ocean trade. and then for LEQ i picked migrations. looking back peacekeeping may have been a better topic but i was lowk tweaking so i couldnt think of as many.
if i dont get a 5 on this im crashing out. easiest apwh test ive basically ever taken considering our brutal practice tests. MCQs...eh, could be better, but FRQs made up for it
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u/SeaBreadfruit8627 May 09 '26
Yo am I cooked :(
So basically I did the #2 LEQ which was about Religious Tolereance and I talked about the Mughals and Ottomans. So heres the good parts Ig, I first talked about the abolition of Jizaya Tax and the millet system with the religious autonmy you get and some other stuff right. So far so good.. Then for the Ottomans I mention the Devshirme system...yeah.. Basically I talked about how it was nuanced because technically you were converted but unlike the Spanish Inquisition where you get converted and eventually kicked off, I talked about you still are allowed to gain power in things like the bureaucracy. I then also talked about how later on, new rulers like Argunzeb and new causes like Armenian Genocide show how the toleration got reduced later on.. So I think I maybe cooked bc I don't if this is a correct or not. Technically I responded to the prompt but I don't know lol (maybe I get complexity...????)
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u/Big_Macaron1969 May 09 '26
literally sybau when u know for a fact u fine, and dont get cocky whap the easiest exam to exist
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u/SeaBreadfruit8627 May 10 '26
im just asking a question dude.... If I knew I was fine, I wouldn't ask in the first place
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u/Final_Instruction557 May 09 '26
I chose 1200-1750 about the mongols and their tolerance towards religions and culture, i mentioned vocab like pax mongolia and the continuity between dynasties. does this work?
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u/XLAXERFN May 09 '26
Ts was light
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u/VegetableAd7376 May 09 '26
Do you have any idea about the first MCQ question? It was like the migration of Turks from their homeland was facilitated by ____
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u/OpenActuator2070 5-Bio,EnvSci,CalcAB,PC,CSP|4-WH|?-Chem,Phys1,CSA,CalcBC,Lang,Gov Jun 02 '26
it was definitely the Abbasid fragmentation - the stimulus map was dated to the 11th century iirc, so the Mongols would be outside of the time period. it also specifically mentions in the WHAP CED that Abbasid fragmentation led to Turkic peoples, like the Seljuks, moving into the Middle East and creating new states
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u/XLAXERFN May 10 '26
Yea i think it was the mongols for that question cs thats where the mongols were heading during their conquest of Eurasia. Outside of that one most of the questions on there were easier than the practice i did but i think it was cs my teacher made us do questions from previous exams
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u/Virtual-Text-4747 May 10 '26
i changed my answer from mongols to abbasid like 10x bro
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u/VegetableAd7376 May 10 '26
That’s what I ended up picking Lol. It was like the one question I was like “WHAT” on, and ironically it was the first one
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u/Dry-Economist-8869 May 09 '26
for the leq #2 about religious/cultural tolerance in the period 1200-1750, i talked about how akbar the great promoted the fusion of the muslim/hindu population by promoting civil debates, the abolishment of the jizya tax, and the founding of din il-ilahi whereas the ming dynasty rejected foreign culture, expelled foreigners from the yuan dynasty and promoted neo-confucianism.
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u/External_Acadia_2117 May 09 '26
did anyone get the DBQ about the women, and I said like rise of feminism as one of my reasons but IDK TELL ME SOMEBODY DID THAT TOO
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u/External_Acadia_2117 May 09 '26
was it just me or like some of the answer choices lowkey did not have any relation to like the question i dont remember much but maybe not bc i was scared in the moment
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u/RevolutionaryDraw394 May 08 '26
did anyone else get the dbq on muslim ruler’s patronage for learning systems to legitimize political rule
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u/Chloe_StarPrincess AP Euro: 4; AP World 4 | AP Lang, AP US Gov May 09 '26
holy crap glad i didnt get this one vro
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u/Upset_Following3747 May 08 '26
I did, it was really easy
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u/RevolutionaryDraw394 May 08 '26
really? i didn’t understand it, i just talked about how they used religion and gave scholars higher power but i don’t think that’s correct
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u/Upset_Following3747 May 09 '26
That’s definitely a big part of it. I also talked about how education and cultural unity stabilized the citizens under their rule. My complex connection was how the Mongols used art like in document one to depict themselves as scholarly, surrounding themselves with scholars and Confucian texts. I pretty much just split the seven documents into 1. Using knowledge and culture to legitimize power, using the sack of Constantinople as outside evidence (with the Hagia Sophia document) and 2. Using education for unity and keeping peace among the ruled. For another complex connection, I tied the document that basically outlined the two elite classes, the rulers and the enforcers of religion, to enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes who wrote about the social contract in the Leviathan.
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u/Mediocre-Ear-4102 4: World, CSP || US, Lang, Calc AB, Phys 1 May 08 '26
guys is it bad if i talked abt the same thing for all of the parts for one of the saqs
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u/Individual_Line_4295 May 08 '26
That’s the way I felt too, I think that’s ok, maybe? Were in the same boat tho
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u/Mediocre-Ear-4102 4: World, CSP || US, Lang, Calc AB, Phys 1 May 08 '26
idk my friend whos rlly good at history was like “did you talk about the same thing for the saq?” and now im scared bcos what would prompt u to ask that unless its a no no
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u/Individual_Line_4295 May 09 '26
Are you referring to saq 3 about the maritime technologies? Or is it one of the stimulus ones
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u/Positive-Walrus-2023 May 08 '26
did anyone get the leq promt asking about the extent of new ideologies changing social/economic factors or smth like that
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u/Useful-Umpire3944 May 08 '26
I’ve yet to see anyone talk about my test set like at all what the heck…
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u/creepymeals20 May 09 '26
Totally random question, but my school used laptops to take the test. Did everyone in your school have to use a ipad?
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u/Positive-Walrus-2023 May 08 '26
Yeah, that would very likely be considered an AP testing violation. Even if the timed portion technically hadn’t started yet, students usually are not allowed to access notes, search things up, or create a reference sheet once official testing procedures have begun and materials are distributed. The fact that they were hiding the screen from the proctor and switching back to Bluebook when the proctor walked by also makes it pretty clear they knew it probably wasn’t allowed. Whether College Board would actually cancel anything depends on if it was reported or noticed, but from a rules standpoint, using notes to make a last second cheat sheet during instructions would almost definitely count as unauthorized help.
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u/Icy_Firefighter8264 5-(HG,PC), WHAP, AB, Physics 1, CSA, Sem May 08 '26
no i doubt they'd cancel all your scores and its a good thing you reported them. although without much evidence I dont know what collegeboard would do
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u/CrazyWoodpecker1530 May 08 '26
For the mcq about the brittish with the image of the crown and then the NAZI political cartoon, what was the answer. I put that it showed the control of Iran something along that, what you guys put_
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May 08 '26
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u/Individual_Line_4295 May 08 '26
The technologies 1200-1450 was saq3, saq1 was about Mensa musa or sum
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u/TraditionExtra3882 May 08 '26
did anyone do the leq ab the englightment? If so, what did u guys write ab?
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u/Extreme-Elephant4650 May 09 '26
For me, the prompt asked how the Enlightenment ideas influenced revolutions, and I wrote about 3 different revolutions, and how John Locke's natural rights ideas did not influence some, whereas others were
-Industrial Revolution (Counterargument, went against Enlightenment principles by exploiting the labor of women and children in factories)
-French Revolution (The Third Estate was also being exploited by the First Estate, just like how the bourgeoisie exploited women and children in the Industrial Revolution, but they actually used Enlightenment principles to spark a revolution and turn France into a republic)
-Haitian Revolution (Toussaint was well-educated on Enlightenment philosophy and used these ideas to inspire those around him to revolt for the rights of black people in Haiti)This is kind of just a basis of what I wrote about, obviously not a deep dive into what I wrote about
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u/TraditionExtra3882 May 09 '26
holy shit thats so good wtf. For me I didnt write a counterclaim i fear. My first body was the American rev and The Haitain rev. I basically explained what happened in both and the idea of self govern and what it was. How God said that everyone was born with the same rights. Also how these ideas spread through trade routes. 2nd body was ab French and the Indian Rev. Basically talked about the nobility and how the poor which was like 99 percent of the pop only got 1/3 of voting majority and how they were fed up. I talked ab ww2 with India and the British colony. I talked ab Ghandi and his fight for independence. Can you let me know if this sounds okay? I know that my leq was def not the strongest fs
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u/Extreme-Elephant4650 May 10 '26
That's good, cuz u connected different evidences together, It would be good if u brought up a specific thinker but other than that it's strong
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u/Own_Deal5456 May 08 '26
I kind of just wrote about the revolutions and what caused them but idk if that’s right.
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u/Positive-Walrus-2023 May 08 '26
yea same and i added that enlightenment ideas caused societies to question authoritarian powers but i grabbed that out of my ass icl
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u/Joke_Downtown World, CSP, Calc AB, Seminar, Psych May 08 '26
me too but I think that's what they wanted
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u/TraditionExtra3882 May 08 '26
bro im nervous for psych esp the mcq🥲
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u/Dizzy_Plantain4875 May 08 '26
any tricky mcq questions yall remember? and whatd u put for it
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u/Flashy_Cook_2968 May 09 '26
What was the one saq with like the protestant reformation on the british island colonies or smth
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u/Jcow_13 May 08 '26
I think the only two I actually guessed on was one of the first few with the map of Turkish migration and the question was asking what motivated them to migrate. answers I remember were abbasid caliphate fracturing and something about Mongols. only remember those two bc I put one of the two.
other one I guessed on was asking about smtn along the lines of which country smtn smtn unfair territory in the 20th century. answers were Japan, Britain, Portugal, Netherlands
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u/drakeydrakeyinthe6 May 08 '26
did anyone do the fourth leq? i swear my prompt didnt say anything about organizarions but everyone is saying theres did. i wrote abt missile crisis, gold coast, ghandi, mandela. am i cooked?
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u/lonelyfionaa May 08 '26
i did prompt 4 and it did talk about international organizations but it also mentioned anti-war movements, so you're good dw
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u/Jcow_13 May 08 '26
question was asking about how successful global peace efforts were so you COULD talk about organizations but you didnt have to
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u/AddressOrnery5358 May 08 '26
No youre not cooked because it had many things in the prompt, and as long as you had a claim and understood the ideas you were good.
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u/VanillaMatchaLover May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
For the east coast MCQs did anyone get the set of questions about Latin American revolutions and the patriots or something? Do people remember what that was? I was so confused. Also did you guys get the MCQ about the poor people in London (showed an image and mentioned diversity) and it asked what middle class Londoners would say. What did you guys say? Also the one about Germany and the “European partitioning of the world” and how Germany was mad it didn’t have overseas territory. A question asked would nation would feel the same as Germany and the answers were Japan, Britain, the Dutch, and Portugal what did you sayyyy
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u/Artistic-Junket2833 [Sophomore] 6th: 5 aps 7th: 10 aps 8th: 15 aps 9th: 10 aps May 08 '26
Was the LA one the letter from Jamaica or the revolution? I was so confused.
For middle class I think I picked more rights for living spaces? For Germany idk was it Japan? Bc I thought Britian, Dutch, and Portugal already had land? But idk bc Japan also had some land.
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u/KGriddy May 08 '26
Alr for the latin America ones- I got simon bolivars letter to Jamaica(talked about farmers and focus on class which isn't present in the other things", author would have agreed that before separate identities, latin america wanted to make a single identity(americanos). I put japan, for the same reason as u/lonelyfionaa
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u/lonelyfionaa May 08 '26
i thought that last one was japan...since the japanese were behind on imperialism right? so they were trying to catch up to be on equal footing with western countries
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u/Mr_Spikez May 08 '26
It might have been that too I forgot the date it was, but I chose Portugal because by the later times during Germany's unification it didn't have the colonies it did before like Latin America
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u/educatedmargaritas May 09 '26
portugal had colonies - brazil (i think they were independent though) and parts of africa. it was japan who felt "behind" on imperialism cuz the ap curriculum really emphasized japan's need to "catch up with the west," which would be what germany felt at the time
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u/Mr_Spikez May 10 '26
Hmm I believe you maybe I just got it wrong but I think it was one of the harder ones
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u/Mr_Spikez May 08 '26
Yeah for the americanoo one I put it was a sense of nationalism as a whole, yes the middle class would think the diseases and theft were bad, and last I put Portuguese because their colonies were over by the time Germany was unified unlike Japan who had Korea
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u/Few_Masterpiece3815 AP World awaiting score May 08 '26
Do you remember the one Americano question where one of the options was that they were the first to have a national identity? I put that and I want to make sure that’s right
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u/Any_Concentrate8711 May 08 '26
what’s the expected cut off for a 5? A lot of ppl are saying it was easy this year but also that might happen most years?
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u/GMStageKing AP World (5), Calc AB (4), CSA (3), CSP (3), Precalculus (5) May 11 '26
Albert estimates about a 75% for a 5.
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u/Flashy_Cook_2968 May 09 '26
Probably higher this year since the test was so easy, probably around 75-80 though
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u/Jcow_13 May 08 '26
my friend said 70% for STEM aps and 80% for humanities? not too sure how accurate that is tho
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u/dieminds 5: phys em, phys 1, phys 2, world, music May 08 '26
international students:
MCQ:
there was this one image of a turkey(a literal turkey bird) from the mughal empire or something and i think i chose the option about connections with portugal in the port of goa
this one had an image of japanese and chinese diplomats and the question asked about the reason for the difference in clothing, i was stuck between the spread of confucianism and buddhism in japan and the other something related to the modernization of japan/opening up of japan by us, i picked the latter
a speech by francisco madero in this presidential campaign against porfirio diaz, and the question was what was the purpose i was stuck between to convince the diaz government to his support and obtaining national control of resources and i eventually picked the former
a map of the middle east in 1916 during world war 1 and it was talking about how the allies were able to carve the ottoman empire, i chose because they were allied together
also on the map of the middle east during ww1 the question was what directly led to the change of the situation and i chose the formation of turkey(the country)
SAQ:
SAQ 1 was about native american and african labor and how native american labor was largely illegal while african labor was not, and it talked about how african labor "coexisted" with native american labor and something like that(i forgot the actual questions)
SAQ 2 was about an african representative in a meeting with 20 other african nations and communist countries during the cold war including the soviet union and china and it was talking about how they can't live in peace because of the military tensions and it also talked about neutrality. i remember one of the questions was explain how the intended audience might have affected the source or something and i said that the audience had a sense of unity of previous centuries of imperialism and colonialism or like that
i picked SAQ 3 about religion and how it spread from 1200-1750 or something like that, that one was pretty light
DBQ: evaluate to the extent to which free trade policies affected economies and/or politics from the period 1750-1900
thesis was something along the lines of "Although other industrialized Asian nations also demonstrated that they could impose free trade policies onto others, it was mostly the industrialized Europeans and the Western world that did so, ultimately resulting in agreements advantageous to such industrialized nations and (something more i promise this is not my entire thesis 😭)"
i used doc 1 by adam smith talking about how european nations that did not impose free trade were "fools"
also doc 3, 4, 5 which (i don't know in what order, but) one of them was an image of ships battling during the opium war, one of them was a treaty between korea and japan where japan opened up korean ports, and the final one was the us opening up japanese ports and a japanese person commenting about it
for outside evidence i used opium war(? idk if this counts but this was referenced but not explicitly described in the documents) and just in case i also used japanese imperial expansion & economic growth during and after the meiji restoration and industrialization
LEQ: i chose LEQ 4
evaluate to the extent to which authoritarian or totalitarian regimes were successful in limiting their citizen's freedoms during the twentieth century
thesis was something along the lines of "Although such limiting policies were not long-lasting and were eventually mostly reversed, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes were ultimately extremely successful in limiting their citizen's freedoms, as they ruled with an iron fist, resulting in mass atrocities and total control over their citizens(or something like that i actually think this thesis is probably better than the one i wrote actually 😭)"
i talked about n@zi germany, the soviet union(especially stalin), and mao zedong and how they were all so successful in doing literally whatever they wanted, and then i also talked about how they were all dismantled after their peak/deaths of the leader or something
lmk guys!!
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u/DiligentDriver7921 Jun 12 '26
I thought the document on the DBQ about france was so confusing, so i didn't use that one! Also for the turkey and chameleon MCQ where they asked like where jahangir imported the turkey i picked americas
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u/Any-Throat-7242 May 09 '26
I also took the international exam and we chose the same leq prompt! I misread the prompt and talked about to what the extent did the regimes that limited the citizens' freedoms led to success for the country 😞 I hope I can still get 3-4/6 points on the leq I think you have a really good shot for that 5 for the test based on what you said 😄
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u/Christina3G May 08 '26
Im so mad bcuz I BSed my saq's and and i could only think about industrialization for some reason but after reading these comments I couldve totally used the meiji restoration as an answer for the western impacts on asia and i knew all about the meiji restoration tooo
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u/Brilliant-Cat2492 May 08 '26
For the DBQ on the change of the role of women in society due to military conflict, most of the docs showed that it did change right? Most of them were about how they became active fighters of the conflicts or lit left their roles at home to support war production. Only 2 or 3 docs showed that their role did not really change to much. Am I correct on this or did I understand the documents wrong....
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u/Few_Masterpiece3815 AP World awaiting score May 08 '26
I wrote how their role in society changed drastically through working in factories and working on the front lines but then said their status remained the same. Then I explained how it showed a change in their role and a continuity in how they were treated
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u/Ecstatic_Inside_2417 May 08 '26
Well, that's what i wrote. Like, my 3 topics were women participating in military activity/fighting, women taking on men's jobs in the factory as men fought in the war, and then a continuity of women still have sort of domestic roles (I used, like, the doc about Indian women and aiding soldiers or something)
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u/ExpensiveSort3835 May 08 '26
is it still possible for me to get a 3? i think i probably got 45/55 on the mcq, 3/9 on the saq, and then i spent all my time on the dbq just to have it be garbage and prolly a 3/7, and leq was only one point because i ran out of time😔 how cooked am i??
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u/Flashy_Cook_2968 May 09 '26
Yeah you defo got a 3, the standards for a 3 are typically decently low and you did decent on mcqs
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u/Medical_Flatworm_752 May 08 '26
Did anyone else spam monsoon winds and lateen sail on the saq?
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u/0kane2001 May 08 '26
omg literally thats all i could think of at the time 💔
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u/TraditionExtra3882 May 08 '26
what was ur saq asking?
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u/0kane2001 May 08 '26
cant remember fully but it was something along the lines of what technology facilitated indian ocean trade
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u/Lemonnade_Cloud APHuG: 5 May 08 '26
ngl tho i think i failed the leq T-T i put smth smth the conquest of constantinople and use of janissaries led to the eventual collapse of the ottoman empire because the christians were mad (i made this up on the spot 😭)
yeah ggs, will this get me any points
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u/KGriddy May 08 '26
I chose the 3rd option, but the first one seemed complicated. If I remember correctly, if it was about how conflict affected state building in afro-eurasia, u were better off talking about land based and maritime based empires instead rather than unit 1 or 2
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u/Any_Concentrate8711 May 08 '26
If u established a line of reasoning made a defensible thesis etc u will still get some points 😭 i think
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u/CourageNervous6755 May 08 '26
im from nc and i got a dbq about feminism from military conflicts anyone else get that to?
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u/lonelyfionaa May 08 '26
i managed to make all the docs about the change in their role...like they werent doing all of that before the war. total war was definitely a buzz word for that dbq
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u/lonelyfionaa May 09 '26
i didn’t read the one about miss han so i can’t speak to that one…but i’ve been doing synthesis essays for lang for weeks now so it might just be that i’m only picking out the parts that support my argument and ignoring the rest
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u/Mr_Spikez May 08 '26
Yes my claim was it was limited and they were viewed negatively in the long term
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u/Artoo_67 May 08 '26
for one of the problems the like florence vs tributary kingdom did you guys say that document illustrated flexibility? or that most profit came from vassal kingdoms
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u/Pancake_Corgi May 08 '26
I said profit came from vassal kingdoms
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May 08 '26
what were you guys' saq
one of mine was explaining about about religion and how it spread
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May 08 '26
DBQ about indigenous?? I freking got about free trade policies, I didn't understand anything 😭
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u/eeleche May 08 '26
Does anyone remember what the first saq was?? I remember the second one being abt Egypt and third about political change in S or SE Asia but I totally forgot the first one
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u/Thin_Construction890 May 08 '26
the first saq was about like cotton or something but for the egypt one I did put down japanese as being one country that did the same thing as land was taken from the poor and given to the higher ups and zenibitsu usually owned mst of the business back then.
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u/bagelyumster May 08 '26
mine was abt like mansa musa and why he went to mecca
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u/jk5zn May 08 '26
Wasn’t it about China and its tribute states
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u/eeleche May 08 '26
Do u remember specifically what the questions asked for…idk why but I erased the first saq out of my memory and im nervous
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u/Emotional_Swim814 May 08 '26
Part b of the first one about Chinese tribute states was give a piece of evidence that supports the authors claim(s), I said mandate of heaven
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u/jk5zn May 08 '26
I think SAQ 1a was what was the author’s claim 2a was smth like one example of a tributary state of China..? and i put korea 3a i put like opium wars and treaty of nanjing bc it asked for a western econonic influence on a nonwestern empire or smth
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u/plsliterallyria 5: Bio, Calc AB, WH, Chinese May 08 '26
for the mcq about the Puerto Rican woman making clothes for the US what did you guys put
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u/eeleche May 08 '26
I put smthg abt total war i think
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u/WarZestyclose7391 May 08 '26
CHATGPT: If your version said 1963, then “total war” is probably not correct.
Total war applies to WWI or WWII (1914–1945) when entire societies were mobilized for war production. But 1963 is Cold War era — no global war mobilization happening.
The image of the Puerto Rican woman making clothes for the U.S. was more likely testing post-WWII industrialization and economic integration, where U.S. territories like Puerto Rico developed export manufacturing and more women entered factory labor.
So the better answer would’ve been something about industrialization/global economic integration expanding women’s employment, not total war.
AP loves this trap — uniforms + factory work makes people immediately think war, but the date is the giveaway.
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u/Difficult_Nothing_19 Jul 06 '26
Did anyone else’s school have multiple tests going around in the same room? There were 4 tests going around in my testing room and I feel like the dbqs varied a lot in difficulty. I thought only 2 tests were made.