• “Show” means to use a diagram to illustrate your answer. Correct labeling of all elements including the axes of the diagram is necessary to receive full credit.
• “Explain” means to take the reader through all of the steps or linkages in the line of economic reasoning. Graphs and symbols are acceptable as part of the explanation.
• “Identify” means to provide a specific answer that might be a list or a label on a graph, without any explanation or elaboration.
• “Calculate” means to use mathematical operations to determine a specific numerical response, along with providing your work.

• The Four Historical Thinking Skills

The framework defines a set of shared historical thinking skills, which allows teachers to make more informed choices about appropriate ways of linking content and thinking skills.

• Key Concepts and Themes
• The use of key concepts and themes to organize the course facilitates both chronological and thematic approaches to teaching AP World History. Given the vast nature of the subject matter, using both approaches — even alternating between the two — often aids instruction.
• The key concepts support the investigation of historical developments within a chronological framework, while the course themes allow students to make crucial connections across the six historical periods and across geographical regions.
• The concepts are designed to provide structure for teaching the course, serving as instructional units that can be addressed separately or in conjunction with other key concepts within any given period.
• By framing historical processes and developments beyond a perceived list of facts, events, and dates, the key concepts help teachers and their students understand, organize, and prioritize historical developments within each period. So the framework provides a comprehensive content outline organized by key concepts.

Section I consists of 70 multiple-choice questions designed to measure the student’s knowledge of world history from Period 1 to the present. This section follows the percentages listed below; questions will draw from individual or multiple periods:

Multiple-choice questions will also measure various geographical regions, with no more than 20 percent of multiple-choice questions focusing solely on Europe.

In Section II, the free-response section of the exam, Part A begins with a mandatory 10-minute reading period for the document-based question. Students should answer the document-based question in approximately 40 minutes. In Part B students are asked to answer a question that deals with continuity and change over time (covering at least one of the periods in the concept outline). Students will have 40 minutes to answer this question, 5 minutes of which should be spent planning and/or outlining the answer. In Part C students are asked to answer a comparative question that will focus on broad issues or themes in world history and deal with at least two societies. Students will have 40 minutes to answer this question, 5 minutes of which should be spent planning and/or outlining the answer.

The curriculum provides resources, such as application related labs, that connect with students with diverse interests, particularly female and underrepresented student populations.  The course is engaging and underscores the importance of communicating solutions appropriately and in ways that are relevant to current societal needs.  The course can help address traditional issues of equity, access, and broadening participation in computing while providing a strong and engaging introduction to fundamental areas of discipline. 

The course introduces students to computer science, with fundamental topics that include problem solving , design strategies and methodologies, organization of data (data structures), approaches to processing data (algorithms), analysis of potential solutions, and the ethical and social implications of computing.  The course emphasizes both object-oriented and imperative problem solving and design.  These techniques represent proven approaches for developing solutions that can scale up from small, simple problems to large, complex problems.

You will not be tested on minor points of syntax. All code given is consistent with the AP Java subset showing the classes and interfaces used in the Computer Science A course. All responses involving code must be answered in Java. The exam also includes a quick reference sheet for the Computer Science A Exam to both the multiple-choice and free-response sections of the exam.

Section I: Multiple Choice — 40 Questions; 1 hour and 15 minutes

Question topics will include:

• Programming Fundamentals
• Data Structures
• Logic
• Algorithms/Problem Solving
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Recursion
• Software engineering

Section II: Free Response — 4 questions; 1 hour and 45 minutes

The free response section tests your ability to solve problems involving more extended reasoning.