<p>Looking at past FRQs, since they can’t like… repeat them… do you guys have any idea whatsoever what the FRQs are gonna be on? /what do you hope theyll be? hah</p>
<p>“Asterick for Answer.” gosh guys readdd. jk. sort of. the answer was A. So uhhh… yeah reevaluate your thought processes cos this was from a real cb exam. and then when you know the answer get back to me lol.</p>
<p>i seriously don’t think this is the easiest thing to self-study. psych was much easier.</p>
<p>I had the class and it was my teachers first year teaching… and we basically learned the bare minimum to pass… and we were given 1 hour per FRQ question. Tomorrow we have to do 3. in 75 minutes. hahhh****. </p>
<p>Self-studying this must’ve been hard, how long ago did you start?</p>
<p>+++++ i would really like… recommend that people that do this course take World History before it, it must make it so much easier because there’s so many historical examples -_- im taking it next year godddamnitt.</p>
<p>APHG Exam: Previous FRQ Topics</p>
<p>2009:
• Map of religious groups/distribution in US (religion, migration)
• Squatter settlements in peripheral countries; where, why, problems associated with (urbanization/development)
• Dairy and organic farms graph; factors affecting change (agriculture)</p>
<p>2008:
• Compare concentric zone model (Burgess) with Von Thunen model (urbanization, agriculture)
• In/out-migration in US areas (population)
• Gender and development status (particularly education of females), trends (development)</p>
<p>2007:
• Von Thunen model (agriculture)
• Revival of minority languages (culture)
• New International Division of Labor (industry/development)</p>
<p>2006:
• International migration with core-periphery, distance decay, chain migration (population/migration,some Unit 1 basics)
• Local development/Arkansas call center (industry/development)
• Centripetal/centrifugal forces in South Asia (political geography, ethnicity)</p>
<p>2005:
• Supranationalism/devolution (political geography)
• Immigration to US 20th century peaks (population/migration)
• Urban revitalization (CBD’s, central cities) in 1990’s US (urbanization)</p>
<p>2004:
• Poultry-farming (agriculture)
• Maquiladoras (development/industry)
• Population pyramids (population,culture)</p>
<p>2003:
• Core-periphery (urbanization,development, industry)
• Tourism/landscape distinctiveness (culture,intro to geographic thinking)
• Europe’s shift from source to destination (DTM/population, migration)</p>
<p>2002:
• Nation-states/Europe (political geography)
• Religion shaping cultural landscape (religion/culture)
• Female-headed households (urbanization,demographic factors)</p>
<p>2001:
• Green Revolution (agriculture)
• Suburbanization (urbanization)
• Rostow model (development)</p>
<p>• There has been a question on industrialization/development/urbanization on almost every AP exam.
• Very frequent population (particularly migration)
• Globalization- at least one question per year that deals with something that happens on a more global scale (past or present)</p>
<p>Concepts/Models/Theories that Haven’t Been Covered Yet:</p>
<p>• Weber’s Industrial Location
• Agglomeration (of economic/industrial activity, secondary and tertiary sectors)
• Borchert’s transportation/industrial innovations by era
• Arithmetic/physiological/agricultural density
• Regions (formal, functional, etc.)
• Sense of place (briefly mentioned)
• Diffusion (specific types- relocation, expansion (hierarchical, contagious, stimulus)
• Major geopolitical theories (Rimland, Heartland, etc.)
• Territorial morphology (state shapes, etc.)
• Folk vs. popular culture in great detail (especially cultural landscape- housing, food, etc.)
• Neolithic and Second Agricultural Revolutions
• Major differences between subsistence and commercial agriculture
• Political boundaries (actual border/boundary stuff, types of, EEZ’s, buffer states, shatterbelts, etc.)
• Multiple-nuclei model of urban areas, non-US urban models
• Terrorism
• Refugees (case studies of refugee flows, major concentrations, reasons why, etc.)
• Maps (of themselves- an actual question on maps rather than just using maps)
• Population control policies (overpopulation, Malthus, etc.)
• Acculturation/transculturation, assimilation, maladaptive diffusion, etc.
• Edge cities (as a specific subset of suburbanization)</p>
<p>how are the frqs to be written? Formal essay with a thesis and everything, or is it just staightforward ‘answer-the-prompt’?</p>
<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF, you’re my hero, thanks for that list!!!</p>
<p>@UCorBust - DO NOT USE A THESIS, INTRO, OR CONCLUSION. The FRQs contain several smaller questions. They’re separated like…</p>
<p>Question 1:
-A describe blahblahblah
-B why is blahblahblah blah?
-C compare and contrast blahblahblah to blahhhdyblahblah</p>
<p>so you should organize it by answers each individual question like 1A, 1B, 1C, before every answer… signpost it basically.
im tired, im rambling, hope that made sense.</p>
<p>i really wish they put terrorism & specific maps as one of the FRQ that’ll be hella easy</p>
<p>i skipped school today, so since 9 in the morning 
got an 81% mc on barrons practice test 1… i really hope the actual test will be this difficulty, cos i’m screwed for frqs… actually no i didn’t forgot to take off penalty points mehhh oh well</p>
<p>I should add that, yeah this must be harder as a freshman. I think with like idk maturing (not being condescending I swear), and general learning of the world, and APUSH and world history course… it’s just easier than having virtually no bg.</p>
<p>Ehww, what do you mean? specific maps suck. like if there’s any maps on the economic growth in like… East/SE Asia… i’m 8 kinds of screwed.</p>
<p>@mulberrypie… you’re superhuman. it’s taken me a full year to get this info down and i’m freaking out. so, there’s a confidence booster for ya haha.</p>
<p>Will we have to know much about the specific maps? like Mercator, Goode’s Interupted Homolosine, Robinson, etc.?</p>
<ul>
<li>i dont understand this…
Water run-off is most likely to occur in which area
*A - city
B - flat farmland
C - alpine terrace
D - beachfront
E - forest preserve</li>
</ul>
<p>it has to be the city because most of the manufacturing and industry occurs there. the chemicals, when raining, will mix and because usually cities have pavements, which cannot absorb water, this creates runoff</p>
<p>but, by elimination, you can easily eliminate B-E because usually there is not that much human interaction there</p>
<p>Oh thanks haha, I wasn’t really aware of what water run-off meant, which is preeetty embarrassing, so… yeahthankss!</p>
<p>Which book are you guys using to study? I got PR & Rubenstein was my textbook.<br>
…I’m trying to make conversation because I’m nervous as hell.</p>
<p>i have Barron’s & de Blij as the TB…i’m probably gonna fail from the outdated information @_@</p>
<p>Neverr heard of de Blij =/ but i hear barrons is really good! </p>
<p>Question:
Edit: the first one was long & weird.</p>
<p>What was the Green Revolution/Third Ag. Revolution?</p>
<p>Well I gotta go take the test. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Yep, time for me to go too! Good luck guys! Get a 5! :P</p>
<p>Good Luck Everyone!!</p>
<p>Rate the difficulty of the test on your opinion:
For me: hard
Barron’s Practice Test was nothing like the real one.
Ughh.</p>
<p>I thought it was medium. For some of the multiple choice, I was clueless. I left 6 or 7 blank. On many I made educated guesses. I estimate my raw MC score to be 50 if I’m being pessimistic, but I don’t want to be overconfident. I found out I got a few wrong after checking back at my notes…</p>
<p>For the FRQs, everything was pretty straightforward except I couldn’t remember some things for the 2nd and 3rd one. The first one made me cry out of joy. A part of the 3rd FRQ I was unclear on…</p>
<p>I didn’t get a chance to take the Barrons test but someone previously said Barrons was way easier. I thought the 2008 released exam was very difficult. Much more difficult than this year’s.</p>
<p>I got this. Uh… I hope.</p>
<p>I’d say medium. Takers of the course probably didn’t do so bad. I admire the self studiers though. Kind of makes me want to self study a few courses myself.</p>