AP Update for DA Humanities

Dear DA Humanities students, 

The College Board has been changing their plans.  They announced on 3/20/2020 that they are developing secure 45-minute online free-response exams for each course.  The exam content will focus on what most schools were able to complete by early March.  

This means that the AP Human Geography exam will only cover 5 out of the 7 units we covered together.

• Thinking geographically
• Population & migration
• Cultural geography
• Political geography
• Agriculture & rural land use

The geography content that won’t be on the test is the info we covered trimester 2 (industrial and urban geography).  

In AP Comparative Politics they have decided that they will be only be covering:

• Political systems, regimes & government
• Political institutions
• Political culture & participation

So we will focus on those topics on the AP 6 countries for the rest of the trimester. 

For the next 5 weeks we will also be practicing your FRQ skills!  You are a talented group of writers so I think you will be successful on these alternative versions of the exam.  

The College Board says you’ll be able to take your exams on any device you have access to—computer, tablet, or smartphone. You’ll also have the option to write your responses by hand and submit a photo.  They have talked to colleges and they support this solution and are committed to ensuring that AP students receive the credit they have worked to earn. For decades, colleges have accepted a shortened AP Exam for college credit when groups of students have experienced emergencies.   The College Board insists that the exams will be secure. They’ll be using a variety of digital security tools, including plagiarism detection software.

I haven’t heard yet whether they are changing the dates of the test.  I will keep you in the loop. This is all new to all of us.