This chapter gave an overview of the book: what it would entail, how to pass the test, what scores will be pretty much necessary to pass the class and get a credit for college. It enforced practicing a lot since practice makes perfect. It explained each section of the test and things such as time-limits, the scoring process and passing. Overall, it gave a good base to the upcoming information.
Chapter Two-Cracking the Multiple-Choice Section:
This was pretty much a chapter of dos and don'ts. It told me:
Guessing is sometimes okay,
Guess and go or don't,
Finishing is not the goal; accuracy is,
Set a good pace,
4/5 choices are wrong,
Don't linger on one question too long,
Think of each choice being wrong until proven correct,
Use process of elimination,
4 steps to answering a multiple choice question:
(1) read question and put it into my own words
(2) answer question in own words {say what i know}
(3) process of elimination {POE}
(4) guess and go
Skip questions you know nothing about
The rest of this chapter was practice questions to help me follow and remember the 4 steps of answering MCQ's. It told which was the correct answer, explained why it was correct and why the other answers were wrong.
Chapter Three-Cracking the Essay Questions:
This chapter talked about each of the 3 essays that are part of the exam. There's the DBQ (Document-Based Question), the Change-Over-Time Essay and the Comparative Essay. The names pretty much tell you what you have to do for each essay. It aslo talked about having a good, strong thesis and what would be considered acceptable. Basically, 3 things need to be remembered: Give 'em what they want, Show 'em where you got it and Help 'em get there.
Chapter Four-Cracking the DBQ:
This chapter explained the DBQ essay. It talked about the directions that will be pretty much the same every time they're seen and how this certain essay would be scored. It explained how to get a 7 or higher and stressed how hard it is to get a 9 but also said that planning your essay before you actually started writing it would be a big help. It told the 6 steps to planning your essay effectively:
(1) Process the Question- read carefully, underline what's important and circle what exactly you're supposed to do.
(2) Build a Framework- make charts to fill in info so it's organized.
(3) Work the Documents- summarize and analyze them to go along with your framework.
(4) Frame and Group Them- Fill in framework & begin grouping the documents
(5) Analyze & Add- Choose 2 documents to explain further for Point of View & 2 documents that would be useful to have to better support your thesis.
(6) Organize the Documents- Make another chart to better organize your info using 9 different headings that will all be in the DBQ Essay.
The next part of the chapter goes on to explain you DBQ thesis again and how long you should planning your essay and how long you should spend actually writing your essay. It also says to make sure you leave enough time to write the other 2 essays.
The very last part gives an example of a DBQ.
Chapter Five-Cracking the Free-Response Questions:
It started out generalizing the other two essays and reminded me about the three major things to remember when writing your thesis. Then it explained the Change-Over-Time essay in more detail and explained what was expected to be done. The four steps to writing a good COT essay were explained and how long you should spend planning and writing to allow enough time to write the third essay. Comparative essays also have four steps to writing a good one. It explained what was expected and how long to spend on it. For both essays the rubric in which they would be scored was shown. It also told how to achieve a nine for each essay: by really concentrating on three points in the basic core rubric so to gain a few expanded core rubric points. It gave an example of an introduction to each essay ( which was extremely helpful) and at the end it gave two example questions.
COT Essay-
*Write a thesis that points out the change over time.
*Answer all parts of the Question.
*Show change over time using relevant information
* Analyze the process of change and continuity over time
Comparative Essay-
*Write a thesis that makes major points of comparison
*Make at least 2 direct, relevant comparisons of the given societies
*Analyze relevant reasons for similarities and differences
~explain the reasons why they are similar or different
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