Short Answer Questions (SAQs):
SAQs are part of Section 1, Part B. You are given three questions, two that are required and one that is your choice. You have 40 minutes to complete the SAQs. This section is worth 20% of the total exam score. The first question assesses the practice of analyzing secondary sources (historian argument) and is over periods 3-8. The second question assesses either skill of causation or comparison and asks students to respond to a written text/visual source. The second question is over periods 3-8. The third question deals with periods 1-5 or 6-9. The third question asks students to respond in writing to general propositions about US history and use the causation or comparison skill.
Strategies:
1. Put it in your own words. To receive full credit for responses, students must fully answer the question using their own words.
2. Provide examples of How and Why? You need to provide evidence to support your claim and why they are relevant.
3. Get right to the point. No introductions are needed, as space and time are limited and these are not essays. Nor is a thesis required or terribly helpful. Students should dive right in and start directly answering the question.
4. Complete sentences are required. Sentence fragments or bullet points will not be scored. They were very strict in enforcing this. Use of common abbreviations is acceptable (for example, FDR, WPA, FBI, etc.). With limited time and space, it is better to go into depth and explain ONE example rather than superficially list multiple.
5. Stay in the time period.
6. Stay in the boxes. Students need to be careful to leave themselves enough room to address all three parts on the 23-line page. Students are NOT permitted to write onto a second page or even outside the boxed area. Anything written outside the box will not be scored.
7. LABEL! Label your sections so you do not forget any portions, but when the are done writing they cross out the letters, so that they are able to be awarded points if they address them inadvertently in other parts of their response.
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SAQs are part of Section 1, Part B. You are given three questions, two that are required and one that is your choice. You have 40 minutes to complete the SAQs. This section is worth 20% of the total exam score. The first question assesses the practice of analyzing secondary sources (historian argument) and is over periods 3-8. The second question assesses either skill of causation or comparison and asks students to respond to a written text/visual source. The second question is over periods 3-8. The third question deals with periods 1-5 or 6-9. The third question asks students to respond in writing to general propositions about US history and use the causation or comparison skill.
Strategies:
1. Put it in your own words. To receive full credit for responses, students must fully answer the question using their own words.
2. Provide examples of How and Why? You need to provide evidence to support your claim and why they are relevant.
3. Get right to the point. No introductions are needed, as space and time are limited and these are not essays. Nor is a thesis required or terribly helpful. Students should dive right in and start directly answering the question.
4. Complete sentences are required. Sentence fragments or bullet points will not be scored. They were very strict in enforcing this. Use of common abbreviations is acceptable (for example, FDR, WPA, FBI, etc.). With limited time and space, it is better to go into depth and explain ONE example rather than superficially list multiple.
5. Stay in the time period.
6. Stay in the boxes. Students need to be careful to leave themselves enough room to address all three parts on the 23-line page. Students are NOT permitted to write onto a second page or even outside the boxed area. Anything written outside the box will not be scored.
7. LABEL! Label your sections so you do not forget any portions, but when the are done writing they cross out the letters, so that they are able to be awarded points if they address them inadvertently in other parts of their response.
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