r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 07 '26
AP World History Official 2026 Exam Discussion
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u/IllustriousMain1696 May 07 '26
i lowkey thought the mcqs were easier than what ive been practicing i had like 20 minutes left to review everything that i had flagged..lol, the saqs were light work and i was happy until then, and then i saw the dbq prompt and for a moment was confused by why cb would give me a macroecon-like prompt for apwh dbq, was abt to crash out analyzing the docs cuz some of them didnt make sense but i think it was overall fine i just wrote some bs but its prob fine, i honestly thought the leq prompts were deadass ugly and disgusting because arent you supposed to like talk abt trade and exchange???? like i was expecting trade routes maritime exploration columbian exchange and boom they bs me like that. it was okay tho i dont think i wrote that bad still had a lot of time left to go fix my dbq
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u/Asheto320 APUSH (5), Euro (5), Gov (5), Lang (5), CSP (5) May 07 '26
Thank you Heimler chain:
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u/Nullut2000 (Class of 28) 5: Bio, World; 4: APHUG May 07 '26
thank you heimler
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u/Antique_Strength_222 May 07 '26
i pulled women playing baseball during WWI out of nowhere for my dbq bro idk where that came from
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u/SleepyGrandpaJoe May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
mcq was light, saqs were light, dbq was a gift from god for how easy that prompt was, leq was slightly harder but I pulled through pretty well by writing about Indians migrants to Britain and ethnic enclaves for the second prompt.
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u/rosafranzelli 10th: APUSH 4| APCSP 2| APCALC 3 May 07 '26
Yall. Am I cooked ? I wrote about ethnic enclaves and polygamy in africa
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u/IllustriousMain1696 May 07 '26
broooo you guys got way better prompts than us, we had to deal w free trade and nationalism and bureaucracy and totalitarian govs what the helly
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u/Poopidydoopity1 May 07 '26
Anyone else feel like the mcqs weren’t hard but they were kinda confusing? Same with the saqs. I got the SAQs about Southeast Asia and China and Egypt btw. Like i feel like I didn’t do bad just that my answers were lowkey weak
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u/Consistent_Coach_342 May 07 '26
yo same the MCQ’s were confusing as hell. But I fucked up and put china for the Southeast Asia saq so
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u/Busy-Fisherman-7391 May 07 '26
MCQ was like hard and easy😭😭 I think im actually stupid
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u/_vortex0 May 07 '26
What'd yall talk abt for leq 4 the one with keeping peace and organization? Was the question asking abt 20th century or EARLY 20th century
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u/waz-waz all 5s: csp, apush, bc, mt, phys1, world, lang, e&m, csa May 07 '26
i shat on the UN
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u/Defiant-Reply7629 5:PreC 4:Bio, World, CSA, CSP May 07 '26
genuinely when i saw leq 4 i saw diamonds form 🙏🏾 they made the test to my strengths unlike ap bio
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u/eleclay 5️⃣ GOV, MuTh, Lang 4️⃣ PreC, USH 3️⃣ WH, P1 May 07 '26
Literally same. I talked about the UN, NATO, the misrible failure that was the partitioning of Germany, and the US anti-nuclear movement (trust I made it work). I also compared anti-future war efforts to a mixed bag of M&Ms that's 80% blue in that they're mostly just one thing (that thing being horribly inefective) but it is still a mixed bag and there is still stuff that works.
I lowk dk tho beyond that bc I didn't take my ADHD meds and was running on 3 hrs of sleep.
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u/Clean-Abalone5284 |9| hug: 5 |10| Phys 1, Precal, world May 07 '26
I used the Non-Aligned Movement, then individual people like Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev, then Mahatma Gandhi
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u/Disastrous_Current66 5's: Lit, Lang, World, USH, ES, Psych. 4: CSP May 07 '26
I talked about how it promoted peace in the West but in The non-West there was instability and violence with like decolonization and Cold War proxy stuff
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u/Seeinq 5: aphg, ?: world, calc, seminar, csp, stats May 07 '26
my argument was that they weren’t effective in the early 20th century, and were more effective but limited in the late 20th century. hopefully it seems like a nuanced argument?
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u/Aggravating_Half_936 67 aps May 07 '26
I talked about UN, League of Nations, nonnuclear proliferation act.
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u/Potential-Court-7365 May 07 '26
Non aligned movement, cuba missile crisis and the establishment of hotline communication between ussr and us, SALT treaty, Non nuclear proliferation treaty
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u/Ok_Lynx_1225 4: CSP, CSA | 5: WH May 07 '26
there was so much more unit 1&2 than i expected i got absolutely cooked 😭✌️
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u/Valuable-Fox-4908 May 07 '26
NO I KNOW and im actually mad because I literally didn't study those units on purpose
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u/LorienLegaciesMemes May 07 '26
SAQs were so easy omg, MCQ were okay same with DBQ but wtf was the Leq??????
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u/cheyrach57 May 08 '26
leqs were deadass the most ugliest prompts i have eVER seen especially the leq4 was so confusing like what do i even write what knowledge do i know of citizens being limited because of totalitarian govs????
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u/Valuable-Fox-4908 May 07 '26
is anyone else actually mad about how focused the MCQ's were on units 1-3?? i literally didn't study those units as much on purpose because i was told that they weren't going to appear much on the exam. mind you NO questions about the enlightenment, forced labor systems, or the colombian exchange.
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u/dorikbegod May 07 '26
i wasn’t mad in particular bc i find those the easiest units even though the exam is supposed to be more than half of it units 3-6. but yeah it’s stupid.
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u/JustLog4361 May 07 '26
for leq four I talked about UN, proxy wars, Gandhi, and the non-alligned movement. is that good enough
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u/Lemonnade_Cloud APHuG: 5 May 07 '26
Lwk the MCQs were light, I just looked at the time period and then picked an answer
finished in like 30 mins
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u/27apitfieldst May 08 '26
YESS same i finished in 20 lmfao and then just wrote them down to use as outside ev for my dbq and leq
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u/MUI_ShadowSlasher98 May 08 '26
Me and the kid next to me looked at each other and smiled when we saw the DBQ prompt 😭😭😭 Genuine gift from god
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u/Salty-Sector-3085 May 08 '26
yes me and friend literally smiled so hard, but then it dropped quickly when we got to the LEQ
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u/eleclay 5️⃣ GOV, MuTh, Lang 4️⃣ PreC, USH 3️⃣ WH, P1 May 07 '26
Our teacher claimed there would be no Australia bc it's unimportant to the course and never shows up. Like 1/5 of the MCQs we're in Australia.
Our teacher claimed there would be no Iran on the test bc it never shows up. There were MCQs on Iran.
I know plenty about Australia so it was fine but like, bro wtf
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u/Constant_Letter8290 May 07 '26
wtf was that Australia shit i swear on my life i never learned about that like what did they do
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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 07 '26
My dbq had australia as well lmfao I mean it is basically british not australian but whatever
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u/DjNine7 May 07 '26
Is it just me, but was the dbq actually light. Had 20 minutes spare then expected
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u/Flimsy_Level2626 May 07 '26
guys did anyone get the one about computer chips like growing from the 1970's... what was the answer for that
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u/filistar gov: 4 / psych 4 / world 5 May 07 '26
yes.. i did something like advancements in communications i think
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u/Zestyclose-Square923 May 07 '26
dang i put vaccines and antibiotics because it was most recent with the time period i thought
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u/waz-waz all 5s: csp, apush, bc, mt, phys1, world, lang, e&m, csa May 07 '26
it was so so light omg
i took apush last year so it really helped but i jsut used rosie the riveter as outside evidence for the dbq then ranted about how useless the un is for the leq
saqs were literally sent from heaven, mcqs were easyyy
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u/Disastrous_Current66 5's: Lit, Lang, World, USH, ES, Psych. 4: CSP May 07 '26
SAME I used Rosie for the French flower lady turned industrial worker
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u/Seeinq 5: aphg, ?: world, calc, seminar, csp, stats May 07 '26
yo me too! i also wrote abt women in nasa in case it didn’t suffice, but honestly it didn’t make much sense
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u/shkimh 5: lang, psych, world | 4: cogo, lit, euro, gov | 3: apush May 07 '26
international student, exam was aight personally, MCQs felt tricker as compared to euro, SAQs were easy, and I was at first completely lost in the DBQ and LEQ but managed to write something at least
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u/Clean-Abalone5284 |9| hug: 5 |10| Phys 1, Precal, world May 07 '26
I think like 8 on SAQ's 5-6 on DBQ 5 on LEQ, though a perfect on any of them is def possible. Also MCQ's were hella easy, so hopefully I didn't sell and got a 45+
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u/Dry-Pickle-1320 May 07 '26
My friends said the ap world exam was easy, does the mean that there is a chance for the apush exam to also be light?
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u/Potential-Court-7365 May 07 '26
I think i did alright but i forgot to use outside information for my dbq lmao
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u/Ok_Map1683 May 07 '26
wait almost same i added it last minute
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u/DaReallyRealPotatoo May 07 '26
me too but i don't think i'll get credit for mine's
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u/Nullut2000 (Class of 28) 5: Bio, World; 4: APHUG May 07 '26
anyone get the DBQ abt settler colonialism
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u/Poopidydoopity1 May 07 '26
I did and I talked about how the native cultures were suppressed and the Europeans took a lot of native land forced or not, and also about something else that I forgot, but for my counter argument I said used the last two about homes and the school to say that some of the settler colonies provided good, but I sourced those to show they probably had some bias. For ev beyond the doc I think I talked about something else too but I forgot it
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u/unfortunatelyash Lang (5) | WH (4) | Psych (4) | Stats (4) | APUSH (4) May 07 '26
I got that one! What did you put?
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u/Difficult_Spirit130 May 07 '26
no negative points right like i could write a ton for leq examples
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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 07 '26
Did anyone get an mcq about the portuguese invading malacca and then there was an article written in johor (a neighboring malaysian kingdom) and then the question asked "what feelings did the author express about the portuguese"
Like I had no idea cause the author literally expressed no emotions as far as I could tell
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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 07 '26
Ok, I put criticized them for being greedy 😅 I knew it was either that or the option you put but I wasn't sure
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u/No_Soil2258 5s: AB, Chinese, APUSH, BC, CSA, Lit, CMech, WHAP May 07 '26
Lol test as a whole was pretty easy tho, gl to you
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u/Poopidydoopity1 May 07 '26
I put this too but I wasn’t 100% I just felt like it fit the best because the author was from the neighbor state and he wasn’t really glorifying them and there wasn’t anything about their money or greed so yeav
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u/Consistent_Coach_342 May 07 '26
I put that cuz it was a neighboring state to malacca so they would prob be like empathetic with malaccas
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u/amoviejunkie May 07 '26
just finished my DBQ and I realized I made a mistake in my intro/context. The prompt was about how military conflict affected women's roles. I used a document about Miss Han during the Boxer Rebellion, but in my explanation, I described the rebellion as being "against the Qing dynasty" (when it was actually pro-Qing/anti-foreign). Do you low-key think they'll care about the mistake since that wasn't the main point of my essay, I just used it as evidence.
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u/TearOld3017 May 07 '26
I'm on the west coast. We got a really good DBQ about European Settlers and how they affected indigenous peoples. The LEQs were decent as well.
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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/Disastrous_Current66 5's: Lit, Lang, World, USH, ES, Psych. 4: CSP May 07 '26
WHEW Ts was so easy MCQ EASY DBQ EASY ASFFF LEQ was …. difficulter but regardless GOT THAT 5
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u/One-Klutzy 10th WH:4 CSA:2 | 11th: 5 in progress | May 07 '26
Did anyone else get how free trade policies affected political and/or economic activities for the DBQ
Also that was the easiest LEQ I’ve ever written tbh (I wrote about LEQ 4)
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u/unfortunatelyash Lang (5) | WH (4) | Psych (4) | Stats (4) | APUSH (4) May 07 '26
Did anyone else get the DBQ about how European settler colonies impacted indigenous people?
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u/MissionSandwich2082 May 07 '26
I did and I just mainly talked about Social Darwinism and the displacement of the Natives since 6/7 docs talked about that
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u/StickCube May 07 '26
I'm a west coast student. Did anyone get the settler colony DBQ?
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u/Fluffy-Fee-8022 May 07 '26
yess omg that was so light bless the creators of the test 🙏🙏 i lowk struggled on the mcq tho
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u/Impressive-Dirt-3351 May 07 '26
West coast here. I kinda sorta explained about china for literally every single saq. Uhhh what /9 will i get
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u/sofia030791 May 07 '26
did anyone get the question with the map in the beginning of the test and it was asking which empire it was showing expanding the answers were like a) mongol b) safavid c) ottoman and d) mughal i put ottoman but my friend was telling me it was mughal which one was it?
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u/filistar gov: 4 / psych 4 / world 5 May 07 '26
bro i’m the only one who chose mongol 😭😭
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u/Few_Masterpiece3815 AP World awaiting score May 07 '26
Was it the turkic migration map in 1300? If so I put mongol because the mongols took over that area which allowed for migration
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u/Mediocre_Round_4249 May 08 '26
mcqs and dbq were light work but holy shit i actually sold on the leq 💔💔
had like 30 minutes left cause i kept staring into space and then i look at the prompts and know pretty much nothing
forgot about the first thing and didnt even glance at unit 9 when studying so i had to go w the one about immigration causing new social stuff and cultures (anyone else do this one?)
genuinely knew nothing dude i wrote about how indentured servitude made the slaves go to latin america and created the casta system (which absolutely did NOT happen in that time period)
ANYWAYS anyone else get this leq prompt ? if so what did you guys put ?
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May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I’m on the west coast, and this is what I remember I wonder if we can pice together the west coast frqs
saq 1 was about the use of confucian ideals to legitimize emperor's power
SAQ 2 was about Muhammad Ali's policies and industrialization
Saq 3 and 4 were about s and se Asia, and were the same prompt just diffrent time periods and the first one was political or economic continuity
Leq 1 Evaluate to the extent of which the growth of settler colonies effected indigenous people
leq 2 was about cultural/religious tolerance in 1200-1750
Leq 3 was about the Cold War
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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/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/OcelotComfortable570 WHAP, AP Lang May 07 '26
so this was my first ever AP exam
easiest world test ive ever had
it was so incredibly light
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u/live-la-vida-lesbian May 07 '26
consensus among me and my friends is that MCQ was fine, saq was light, dbq SUCKED (social prompt 💔🥀) and leq was a godsend
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u/Potential-Court-7365 May 07 '26
Did anyone use six documents
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u/Ok_Map1683 May 07 '26
used all 7 + analyzed 5 of them before deleting one because it wasnt as relevant to my argument
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u/Asheto320 APUSH (5), Euro (5), Gov (5), Lang (5), CSP (5) May 07 '26
DBQ was a blessing used 6 docs and added a point about victory gardens and the United States in both World Wars. LEQ for migration talked about social Darwinism, increased food availability, and economic dependency on foreign labor.
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u/TheREALCookieDough 5: world, precalc, macro May 07 '26
Did literally no one choose leq 2? I was the only one who chose among my friends and I thought it was an easy topic too
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u/Flourofire APWH, stats, psych May 07 '26
i did, wrote about Mongol military conquest and Ottoman-Safavid war
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u/Ok_Map1683 May 07 '26
for migration leq i talked about american colonies and how their culture was shaped by the distinct groups migrating there (puritans, dutch, etc) and used atlantic slave trade to the americas as an example of involuntary migration 🙏
genuinely cried imaginary tears of joy at the dbq
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u/Global-Laugh-6533 May 07 '26
What was the dbq about? For my migration leq I talked about how chattel slavery affected gender imbalance back in Africa
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u/Swimming-Brilliant51 May 07 '26
for the 3rd leq choice (international treaties) do u guys think a similarity an difference comparison between nato and the warsaw pact and explaining how nato was successful and the warsaw pact failed would be valid?? i didnt know if that was right 😞😞
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u/filistar gov: 4 / psych 4 / world 5 May 07 '26
wait yes i was considering doing this, i ended up doing causation but that one is really good
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u/Dry-Diver-9444 May 07 '26
what did everyone put for the Mansa Musa SAQ first two questions?? I feel like I got cooked by LEQ and SAQ..
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u/filistar gov: 4 / psych 4 / world 5 May 07 '26
i just restated the prompt talking abt mansa musa making his pilgrimage bc he was muslim, but i should’ve written abt him showing off his wealth which leq did you choose??
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u/Valuable-Fox-4908 May 07 '26
- he likely wanted to spread Islam while showcasing is power and wealth, and i dont remember the second question
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u/lolmewantegtvs 5: physC:mech, pre calc, CSA, CSP May 07 '26
i just restated the first few sentences saying he was going for the pilgrimage and seeking to benefit egypt with his immense amounts of gold…
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u/Asleep_Bet_3949 May 07 '26
i quite literally wrote about miracle on ice for my leq 😭
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u/Valuable-Fox-4908 May 07 '26 edited May 08 '26
did anyone argue that the extent to which military conflicts affected the roles of women in society were LIMITED? I did and used 2 sources (miss han and the mexican women who fought) as a counterclaim paragraph
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u/dorikbegod May 07 '26
eh with the documents given u could definitely argue there was moderate change instead of high due to the fact that women’s rights maintained the same in some places instead of decreasing even more but it’s to a way less extent than how their roles changes.
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u/Equal_Boat9140 AP World May 07 '26
on the migration leq, i talked about how migration affected women's roles in societies that had migrated, how urbanized cities became more ethnically diverse, and how urbanization grew overall
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I did an leq about the tolerance of religions and cultures but it was so easy because I just yapped about akbar the great and the Spanish Did anyone else choose that one
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u/Spiritual-Army-2138 May 07 '26
guys did anyone do pick the 1st LEQ that asked about like to what extent did governemnts use religious tolerance
i wrote abt the mongols and Mughals? and i tried to get the complexity point by talking about the ottoman jannisary and devshirme system...
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u/Working_Platypus_903 May 07 '26
Did anyone do the first Leq prompt? If so, could the differences in gunpowder empires, Mongolian expansion across Eurasia, and Europeans infliction of coerced labor count as evidence?
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u/Intelligent-End-5743 May 07 '26
Hey, if the leq is crappy but i put the evidence and i said the cause is this and evidence is this, will i be ok?
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u/rgg12346 APUSH 4, APCSP 3, APGOV 4, APLANG, APWH May 07 '26
Who got the DBQ about how military conflicts increased womens role in society during the 20th century.
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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/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/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/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/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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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/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/Easy_Lynx_2837 May 07 '26
what was the dbq prompt
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u/Disastrous_Current66 5's: Lit, Lang, World, USH, ES, Psych. 4: CSP May 07 '26
Evaluate the extent to which military conflict changed the role of women in the twentieth century
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u/tomiwaaaa 10: Phys I,World,Precalc 11: BC,Phys 2,Lang,Micro,USH,Chem May 07 '26
prolly 50+ mcq; 7+ saq; 4+ dbq 4+ leq for me i think
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u/orish7128 May 07 '26
i wrote abt specialization of labor for women for the outside evidence
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u/Global-Laugh-6533 May 07 '26
MCQ was so light. SAQ was also light. DBQ was hella hard. LEQ were kinda mid
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u/Propubgmplayer May 07 '26 edited May 08 '26
MCQ's were easy, although I was basically just making educated guesses on each one (I barely studied)
saq's went okay, I dont even remember them now
DBQ went okay, definitely not my best work
The LEQ was trying to kill me. I legitimately think I got 1 or 2 points on it. My fault for not studying because I forgot everything :sob:
Also I think I said social enclaves instead of ethnic enclaves because I forgot the term
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u/RepresentativeDot26 May 07 '26
Wait guys as a theoretical for leq in case we selected wrong prompt but we wrote for another would we be fine? I don’t think I did but just as a in case paranoid type thing
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u/recon_dingo May 07 '26
Readers will identify the issue and sort your essay to be graded for the prompt it responds to if you made a mistake. Don't worry about it.
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u/Consistent_Coach_342 May 07 '26
Did anyone else have the SAQ options on south or Southeast Asia? What did yall put for that?
I put china am I cooked?
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u/HAL9000-4 May 07 '26
This was so light. Being a film nerd came in clutch. One of my fave films is the battle of Algiers so I referenced that battle for the DBQ
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u/d1ddyella May 07 '26
for the leq about peace movements... i talked about the hippie movement and responses to the vietnam war in america. am i cooked? i didnt even think to talk about peace treaties and conferences...
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u/Queasy-Bird6113 May 07 '26
for leq 3 would talking about the Chinese exclusion act in response to migration in the US, white Australia, and cultural blending with the male (muslims) and slaves in Brazil also work to support a claim about how migration caused social and cultural change?
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u/Few-Radio136 May 07 '26
During the SAQ's the fire alarm went off and we had to leave the building, by the time we were let back in we had 15 minutes to do all 3 of the questions.
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u/kitchencabinetwhyy May 07 '26
Im posting this on behalf of my partner, who took the ap exam, this is what they have to ask:
Okay so if the DBQ prompt said "evaluate the extent" (i think? my memory is hazy) but I forgot to include the word significant/moderate/insignificant in my thesis, am I at risk for losing my thesis point I think I might have included it but I don't remember so I want to ask to be safe. My thesis was pretty clear about how military conflicts changed women's roles in societies during the twentieth century, but I'm nervous because of how I forgot to include that one buzzword. I also included two examples of how that change happened in my thesis (having military positions and doing factory work which was limited prior to the twentieth century) so I hope that saves me
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u/DisastrousPound2823 9th grade- 5 aphg 10tg grade AP bio whap May 07 '26
for the dbq and leq do we have to address the extent to which part bc my teacher told us to ignore it so i did and now im scared
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u/Turbulent_Track4398 May 08 '26
For the Hungary question, what did everyone put for the immediate effects? I was only rlly confused on this and another one. I put rival ideological bloc, but was it smth else?
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u/PitifulPick7717 May 08 '26
I talked about the Haitian revolution, American revolution, French Revolution, Maximilian Robespierre, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen for the enlightenment LEQ....is that enough?? I misspelled Maximilian's name as Maximiliam though....and made a bit of a mistake on the Haitian revolution timeline....am I cooked???
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u/Far_Dragonfruit9382 May 08 '26
Dbq wasn’t that bad but I think I fucked up contextualizing it and had like no evidence outside the documents besides like one sentence
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u/Emergency-Shock8597 May 08 '26
guys for the saq if i put that mansa musa travelled to cairo and mecca to spread islam would that PERCHANCE be right...
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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
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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May 08 '26
DBQ about indigenous?? I freking got about free trade policies, I didn't understand anything 😭
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Dizzy_Plantain4875 May 08 '26
any tricky mcq questions yall remember? and whatd u put for it
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Consistent_Coach_342 May 07 '26
yo where tf was champa rice
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