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This portion of the exam counts as one-half of your exam score. There are always three specific types of essays, and each essay contributes one-sixth of your total Advanced Placement World History Exam score. Below you will find some ideas, suggestions, and recommendations to consider as you prepare to write.  \n1. Writing the AP World History DBQ  \nThough each question on this test is tied to a specific historical thinking skill, the Document-Based Question (DBQ) is specifically designed to evaluate your ability to read critically and to formulate and support an answer from documentary evidence. These are the same types of skills a historian uses in his or her career, but this evaluation is timed.  \nLike the other essay questions on this exam, there is no single right response in crafting your DBQ. Further, like the other essay questions, there is not a magic formula that can compensate for poor reading, thinking, or writing skills. Like the other questions, if you have practiced these types of essays using a consistent pattern, you will be free to demonstrate your abilities without worrying that you might forget something essential to the DBQ. So, given all those disclaimers, here are the consistent elements to consider:  \n1. Read the prompt carefully and thoroughly. Mark it to indicate the key words, phrases, or tasks required. Do not begin any other step until you know what the question is asking. Reading the prompt and any supplied historical background might also help you get some potential ideas about how to organize the essay. Sadly, to disregard these cautions means that you are in danger of joining the hundreds of students each year who write a beautiful essay with all the major elements included and yet still earn 0 points because they totally misinterpret the question.  \n2. Do not panic if you know little or nothing about the topic of the question. This question tests your ability to read, analyze, synthesize, and communicate those skills effectively in writing. Sure, knowing something about the topic is a great help, but it is not essential to writing a solid DBQ.  \n3. When you are confident that you understand the demands ofthe prompt, begin to read the documents. You can anticipate between 5 and 10 documents for each DBQ. Always mark the documents for key words, ideas, and phrases that seem to be important and always make a few notes in the margins next to the document to record your ideas as you read.  \n4. Jot down your thoughts as you read each document. After you have read a couple of the documents, you should begin to see some connections or contradictions between the documents. Underline or circle key ideas in each document. You will refer to these marks after you begin to write the essay. Begin a list of these ideas in the margins of your test booklet so you can refer to them later.  \n5. As you finish reading the documents, you are ready to group them. This is simply DBQ talk for combining documents that have similarities. You might group them by time period, region, types of sources, theme, or other criteria. In general, the best DBQs are those where the student groups the documents based on the content in the documents; this technique demonstrates that you are a careful and thoughtful reader. Refer to your margin notes to see whether the same ideas are represented in two or more documents. At this point, you are ready to group the documents.  \n6. Make a quick chart in the test booklet. This chart or other graphic organizer will assist you with recording your ideas and figuring out an analysis scheme. 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