Short Answer
Section I - Part B: Short Answer | 4 Questions | 50 Minutes | 20% of Exam Score
Questions provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know best.
Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps.
Short-answer questions will directly address one or more of the thematic
learning objectives for the course. At least two of the four questions will have
elements of internal choice, providing opportunities for students to demonstrate
what they know best. All of the short-answer questions will require students
to use historical thinking skills to respond to a primary source, a historian’s
argument, nontextual sources such as data or maps, or general propositions about
U.S. history.
Each question will ask students to identify and analyze examples
of historical evidence relevant to the source or question; these examples can be
drawn from the concept outline or from other examples explored in depth during
classroom instruction.
