<p>The Aung San Suu Kyi question is a present of CB. I watch the news, read newspapers and political/economic magazines regularly. Hence the test was quite easy. I took it last December and the exact same question about Aung San Suu Kyi popped up. Be prepared for general knowledge questions.</p>
<p>Oh yay! if the WH test is like this, I’m quite certain that I’ll do well. I won my school’s General Knowledge Quiz last year</p>
<p>To answer the “how many can you miss for an 800” question, my Kaplan book puts the cutoff at 80 raw score, so 15 omitted, or 12 wrong. Though this seems really lenient if it’s true…</p>
<p>What about this one :
The Greek thinker Galen`s study of anatomy in the second century C.E was not significantly improved on in Europe until the sixteenth-century publication of the work of
A)Leonardo da Vinci
B)Tycho Brahe
C)Isaac Newton
D)Anton van Leeuwenhoek
E)Andreas Vesalius </p>
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<p>The first Russian state developed around which of the following cities:</p>
<p>A)Kiev
B)Novosibirsk
C)Saint Petersburg
D)Moscow
E)Marmunsk</p>
<p>It’s true that the first question is tough if you are not familiar with the names in it 
You should eliminate B and C on first glance, for Newton and Brahe had nothing to do with medicine. Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope and observed bacterias and other microorganisms. Also, I may be wrong, but I think he lived during the seventeenth century, not in the sixteenth as is written in the question. Leonardo did observe the human body and contributed a lot to the medicine in those days but I think he never published anything as an official academic research. On the other hand, Vesalius was truly amazing in his discoveries. He published a lot of works about the skeleton, the muscles, the heart, etc. What I mean is, that he actually PUBLISHED these things. If I am not wrong, “De Corporis Fabrica” was his work. I would go with E for the forementioned reasons. A tricky question indeed.</p>
<p>The second question, however, is pretty simple. I can’t see what bothers you with it. You are supposed to know about Kievan Rus’! Moreover, you should immediately associate it with Rurik, Vladimir, Yaroslav. </p>
<p>You seem unprepared for this test. Why don’t you wait until June or simply switch tests? I’m sure there will be ones that are more convenient for you.</p>
<p>Good luck whatever you decide!</p>
<p>^^Thank you but I still think I can get the most out of the next week and prepare well enough to score at least 700 :)</p>
<p>Get Barron’s AP World History (not the subject test book) and read it all</p>
<p>Why AP and not the SAT II version?</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter. The SAT II version is great in my opinion.</p>
<p>That galen question wasnt hard if you took AP Euro. However, at my school we dont have AP World History…so I am debating whether I should try to cram in a year of World History in a week or just suck it up and take a math test. (I just need a third dang SAT 2 for harvard)</p>
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<p>B, C, and D should be automatically eliminated since none of those men are associated with the 16th century (1500’s). Although Da Vinci was a man of knowledge in various fields, he wasn’t really known for medicine advancement. Vesalius, who once raided cemeteries for the bodies he fervently examined, is the correct person for this question.</p>
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<p>Any decent world history book should talk about early Russia and the importance of Kiev as a riverside city. All the others are simply wrong, but good deductive reasoning should successfully eliminate B, C, and D right away.</p>
<p>These questions shouldn’t be too troublesome. This is coming from a fellow whose school only has a state-mandated “Global History” course that’s meek compared to AP World History.</p>