AP World History Calculator – APWH Score PredictorAPWHScore
🌍 AP World History Calculator
AP World History Calculator
Predict your AP World History: Modern exam score from MCQ, SAQ, DBQ, and LEQ raw scores.
🌍 AP World History Score Calculator
MCQ (55 Questions) 40%
55 MCQ · 55 minutes · No penalty
SAQ (3 Questions) 20%
3 SAQs × 0–3 pts each · 40 min
DBQ 25%
Document-Based Question · 60 min
LEQ 15%
Long Essay Question · 40 min
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AP World History: Modern — Guide
AP World History: Modern covers the period from 1200 CE to the present, examining civilisations, trade networks, empires, revolutions, and global interactions across continents. Its scoring formula is identical to APUSH, making strong essay technique equally critical.
Period 1: 1200–1450
~8–10% of exam
Trade networks, Mongol Empire, Islamic expansion, cross-cultural exchange
Period 2: 1450–1750
~12–15% of exam
European expansion, Columbian Exchange, slave trade, gunpowder empires
World Wars, Cold War, decolonisation, globalisation
🌍 Strategy: APWH’s SAQ section includes one optional question — SAQ 3 or SAQ 4. Choose the one whose time period you know best. You are not penalised for which option you select, so always play to your strengths.
APUSH focuses exclusively on United States history from pre-colonial times to the present. AP World History: Modern covers global history across all continents and civilisations from 1200 CE to the present. The essay structures (DBQ, LEQ, SAQ) and scoring formulas are identical. APWH requires breadth across civilisations; APUSH requires depth in American contexts.
Many students take AP World History in 10th grade and APUSH in 11th grade. APWH provides excellent preparation for APUSH by building essay skills (DBQ, LEQ, SAQ) and historical thinking habits that transfer directly. Students who have strong APWH skills typically perform better on APUSH essays than those taking APUSH cold.
The APWH DBQ provides 7 primary and secondary source documents that may include written texts, maps, images, graphs, or other visual sources. Documents represent diverse perspectives including from non-European civilisations. The prompt typically asks students to evaluate a historical argument using all or most documents while incorporating outside knowledge for the Beyond Documents point.