Jiazheng Chen
Practice to Mastery: AP® Human Geography Practice Exams holds twelve complete, full-length practice exams for students preparing for the AP® Human Geography Exam: 756 original questions in all, 720 multiple-choice and 36 free-response, each exam followed by its own answer key, explanations, scoring guides, and score estimate.A unit-by-unit review teaches the course one piece at a time. The exam does not. It moves from a population pyramid to a boundary dispute to a farming landscape to a city model in the space of a few minutes, and it asks you to sustain that for more than two hours. This book is built to give you that experience twelve times over, so that nothing about the real exam’s format, pace, or mix of questions comes as a surprise.Every exam follows the published format of the AP® Human Geography Exam:Section I: 60 multiple-choice questions in 1 hour, worth half the score. About a third of the questions come in sets that share a map, data table, graph, model diagram, or landscape sketch; the rest stand alone. The questions are drawn from all seven units of the course in proportion to their published exam weightings and are mixed together, with no difficulty labels and no unit grouping, just as on the day of the exam.Section II: 3 free-response questions in 1 hour and 15 minutes, worth the other half. Each question is worth 7 points across parts A through G, and the task verbs rise from Identify to Describe to Explain. Question 1 has no stimulus, Question 2 has one, and Question 3 has two. Every question draws on at least two units of the course, and every exam asks you to analyze relationships across geographic scales.Every map, graph, table, and figure in the book was drawn for it. The places in the data-based questions are invented, so each question tests your ability to read evidence and apply a concept rather than your memory of a particular map. Across the twelve exams you will work with dot and choropleth maps, isoline and flow maps, population pyramids, fertility and migration graphs, development indicator tables, boundary maps, rural landscape plans, urban land-use models, and industrial location diagrams.Each exam is followed at once by its own answer section:An answer key that labels the course unit of every multiple-choice question, so you can sort your errors and see which units need work.A full explanation of every multiple-choice question. The explanations show why the correct answer is correct, naming the concept, the model, or the reading of the stimulus that settles the question, rather than listing the wrong choices one by one.A scoring guide for every free-response question, giving the point for each part, examples of acceptable responses, and scoring notes, followed by a sample response that earns all seven points.A guide to combining your two section scores into an estimated AP® score.The front of the book explains how to sit an exam under timed conditions, how to mark your free-response answers honestly against the scoring guides, how to read your results by unit and by skill, and three different plans for spreading the twelve exams across a school year or the final month before the test.Every question, answer choice, map, figure, and explanation in this book is original. No question is repeated from one exam to another or from the companion volume, Practice to Mastery: AP® Human Geography Workbook, which provides 1,101 more questions organized unit by unit.AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
