The course
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Start here
Section I Part A: 55 multiple-choice questions in 55 minutes, 40% of the score. Part B: 3 short-answer questions in 40 minutes, 20%. Section II: the document-based question (25%) and the long essay (15%).
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Historical thinking skills
Every multiple-choice set is built on a source: sourcing, claims and evidence, context and connections
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Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
c. 1450 to c. 1648; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 2: Age of Reformation
c. 1450 to c. 1648; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
c. 1648 to c. 1815; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
c. 1648 to c. 1815; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
c. 1648 to c. 1815; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 7 of the 55 questions
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Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects
c. 1815 to c. 1914; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments
c. 1815 to c. 1914; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts
c. 1914 to the present; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
c. 1914 to the present; 10-15% of the multiple-choice section, about 6 of the 55 questions
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Free response
Part B: three short-answer questions in 40 minutes. Section II: the document-based question (60 minutes, 7 points) and the long essay (40 minutes, 6 points)