Short Answer Questions (SAQ)

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Short-Answer Questions (SAQ) in AP World have clearly identifiable components, most often: a thinking skill, a theme, and content related to history. Understanding how SAQ are put together helps students to be more successful in answering them. Successful students understand the different between answering a question and supporting it with evidence. Like with any skill, scoring well on SAQ comes from practice with all possible tasks. In this case these are questions with secondary sources, questions with primary sources, and those that stand alone.

Mastering the short-answer question (SAQ) leads to points on the AP Exam and develops college-level writing. Mastering the SAQ includes analyzing documents, which is the key AP History skill. Practicing with sources from Marco Polo in China, Portuguese voyages in Africa, and a portrait of Charles V helps students to become more confident while answering short-answer questions.

Amanda DoAmaral, the CEO of Fiveable, addresses trends and sample responses from Fiveable students on the diasporic communities prompt. Teacher, Caroline Castellanos, demonstrates how to deconstruct the prompt, ACE strategy, and how to score several prompts.

The Short Answer Question (SAQ) is an opportunity for you to show your knowledge of World History in your own words. We will go through an overview of what the SAQ is, and break down some of the common task verbs used to write SAQ prompts. We will also introduce the ACE strategy for answering SAQs, and practice answering a prompt together.

We will use short-answer questions to review content and how to ACE this part of the exam.

Short Answer Questions done live from period 3.

Earning all 3 points is easier than you think!

SAQs done live from period 2.