The Best Test Preparation For the AP European History

by Link, Jere

• ISBN13: 9780738602899
• ISBN10: 0738602892
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-12
• Publisher: Research & Education Assn

Summary

REA '¦ Real review, Real practice, Real results. Get the college credits you deserve. AP EUROPEAN HISTORY ' 9th Edition Completely aligned with today's AP exam Are you prepared to excel on the AP exam? * Set up a study schedule by following our results-driven timeline * Take the first practice test to discover what you know and what you should know * Use REA's advice to ready yourself for proper study and success Practice for real * Create the closest experience to test-day conditions with 4 full-length practice tests * Chart your progress with full and detailed explanations of all answers * Boost your confidence with test-taking strategies and experienced advice Sharpen your knowledge and skills * The book's full subject review features coverage of AP European History from the Renaissance to present day and all topics on the exam, including: The religious reformations, European wars, changes in government and more * Smart and friendly lessons reinforce necessary skills * Key tutorials enhance specific abilities needed on the test * Targeted drills increase comprehension and help organize study Ideal for Classroom, Family, or Solo Test Preparation! REA has provided advanced preparation for generations of advanced students who have excelled on important tests and in life. REA's AP study guides are teacher-recommended and written by experts who have mastered the course and the test.

Table of Contents

About Our Author

About Research and Education Association

Acknowledgments

Study Schedule

Excelling on the AP European History Exam

New Monarchies, the Renaissance, and the Age of Exploration

Reform, Counter-Reform, and the New Sciences

Overview of European Powers

Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and Enlightenment

Revolution and the New European Order

The Heyday of Liberalism and Nationalism

The "Second Thirty Years War": World Wars I and II

Postwar Europe: Cold War, Reconstruction, Decolonization and Unification Efforts

Selected Readings

Practice Exams

Practice Exam 1

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Practice Exam 2

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Practice Exam 3

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Practice Exam 4

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Answer Sheets

Index

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Excerpts

EXCELLING ON THE AP EUROPEAN HISTORY EXAM Prepare with Confidence If you're looking for a true edge on Test Day... If you're slogging through your textbook, struggling to boil it all down... And if you're not willing to settle for second best... ...then this new edition of REA's AP European History test prep is for you. REA gives you all the tools you'll need to master the Advanced Placement Examination in European History: * Summary appraisals of the cultural, diplomatic, economic, political, and social strands that form the basis of the AP course and the exam. * Unrivaled relevant, detailed, and properly apportioned, review of European history in a context that (a) accords with known exam coverage, (b) will serve to sharpen your classroom discussion and (c) will keep you from having to continually check your textbook for citations as you study. * Handy timelines that not only summarize each period's key events but also explain their significance. * Carefully chosen artwork that pictorially presents the progression of events, ideas and trends associated with a given period. * Bibliography of additional study resources. * Comprehensive index that speeds specific referencing. * Four full-length, true-to-format practice examswith 320 multiple-choice items in allthat prepare you for the AP exam like no other book can. * Complete array of sample essay questions and answers. Importantly, this book embraces the same principles of organization and coverage as those adopted by the AP Program's European History Development Committee, which is to say that REA, too, recognizes that early twenty-first century teaching on college and university campuses reflects a broad perspective in terms of the sweep of intellectual and cultural history; political and diplomatic history, and social and economic history. In choosing REA, you're putting yourself in the company of tens of thousands of AP students who have benefited from our total preparation package year after year.Moreover, teachers across America and beyond find that this book offers a clear-eyed, no-nonsense narrative of the history of Europe. In fact, many AP instructors use it to supplement their classroom text and lectures precisely because it so comprehensively supports specific curriculum objectives for the AP course and exam. About the Exam The Advanced Placement European History examination is offered each May at participating schools and multi-school centers in the United States and more than 30 other countries. The Advanced Placement Program is designed to allow high school students to pursue college-level studies while attending high school. Participating colleges and universities, in turn, grant credit and/or advanced placement to students who do well on the examinations. Format of the AP European History Exam The AP European History exam is approximately three hours and five minutes long. The exam is divided into two sections. Each section of the exam is timed and completed separately, and each counts for half of the student's score. None of the exam items focuses on the pre1450 or the post2001 period. 1. Multiple choice.This section consists of 80 multiple-choice questions to be answered in 55 minutes. The questions are designed to measure the student's ability to understand and analyze European History from the High Renaissance to the recent past. This section tests factual knowledge, scope of preparation, and knowledge-based analyti