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Advanced Placement European History (commonly known as AP European History, AP Euro, or APEH) is a course & examination offered by the College Board through the Advanced Placement programme. This course is for students who are interested in a freshman college-level course in European history. The course surveys European history from the year 1450 to 2004, focusing on religious, social, economic, & political themes. A college-level text is used, and students engage in college-level writing and discussion.
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The AP exam for European History is composed of two sections comprised of eighty multiple-choice questions and three essay responses. Section I, the multiple-choice portion, is to be completed in 55 mins. Section II, the written response portion, is to be completed in 120 mins & includes three essays, two thematic Free Response Questions (FRQ) and one Document Based Question (DBQ). The DBQ is provided a mandated 15-minute reading period prior to beginning the response. Each essay is graded on a scale of nine possible points.
The exam grade is weighted evenly between the multiple-choice and free-response sections. The DBQ is weighted 45 percent of the Free Response Question score, leaving the thematic essays weighted 55 percent.
Themes coveredIntellectual and Cultural History
- Changes in religious thought & institutions
- Secularization of learning & culture
- Scientific and technological developments and their consequences
- Major trends in literature and the arts
- Intellectual & cultural developments and their relationship to social values and political events
- Developments in social, economic, and political thought
- Developments in literacy, education, & communication
- The diffusion of new intellectual concepts among different social groups
- Changes in elite & popular culture, such as the development of new attitudes toward religion, the family, work, and ritual
- Impact of global expansion on European culture
Political and Diplomatic History
- The rise and functioning of the modern state in its various forms
- Relations between Europe & other parts of the world: colonialism, imperialism, decolonization, and global interdependence
- The evolution of political elites and the development of political parties, ideologies, and other forms of mass politics
- The extension & limitation of rights & liberties (personal, civic, economic, and political); majority and minority political persecutions
- The growth and changing forms of nationalism
- Forms of political protest, reform, & revolution
- Relationships between domestic and foreign policies
- Efforts to restrain conflict: treaties, balance-of-power diplomacy, and international organizations
- War and civil conflict: origins, developments, technology, & their consequences
Social & Economic History
- The character of and changes in agricultural production and organization
- The role of urbanization in transforming cultural values and social relationships
- The shift in social structures from hierarchical orders to modern social classes: the changing distribution of wealth & poverty
- The influence of sanitation and health care practises on society; food supply, diet, famine, disease, and their impact
- The development of commercial practises, patterns of mass production and consumption, & their economic & social impact
- Changing definitions of and attitudes toward mainstream groups and groups characterized as the "other"
- The origins, development, and consequences of industrialization
- Changes in the demographic structure & reproductive patterns of Europeans: causes and consequences
- Gender roles and their influence on work, social structure, family structure, and interest group formation
- The growth of competition & interdependence in national & world markets
- Private and state roles in economic activity
- Development and transformation of racial and ethnic group identities
In the 2005 administration 85,427 students took the exam from 4,011 schools. The mean score was a 2.97.
The grade distribution for 2005 was:
| Score | Percent |
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| 5 | 11.8 percent |
| 4 | 19.8 percent |
| 3 | 36.8 percent |
| 2 | 17.2 percent |
| 1 | 14.4 percent |
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