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  2. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. The percentage ...

  3. Advanced Placement exams - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) examinations are exams offered in United States by the College Board and are taken each May by students. The tests are the culmination of year-long Advanced Placement (AP) courses, which are typically offered at the high school level. AP exams (with few exceptions [1]) have a multiple-choice section and a free-response ...

  4. Document-based question - Wikipedia

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    The document based question was first used for the 1973 AP United States History Exam published by the College Board, created as a joint effort between Development Committee members Reverend Giles Hayes and Stephen Klein. Both were unhappy with student performance on free-response essays, and often found that students were "groping for half ...

  5. AP Capstone - Wikipedia

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    AP Capstone, officially known as the Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma Program, is a 2-year program developed by the College Board that consists of two courses: the AP Seminar and AP Research. [1] Students who successfully complete the program and obtain scores of 3 or higher on at least four other AP exams receive either an AP Capstone ...

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are Quantifiers.

  7. Quantification (science) - Wikipedia

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    The ease of quantification is one of the features used to distinguish hard and soft sciences from each other. Scientists often consider hard sciences to be more scientific or rigorous, but this is disputed by social scientists who maintain that appropriate rigor includes the qualitative evaluation of the broader contexts of qualitative data.

  8. What the Syrian rebellion could mean for the balance of power ...

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    In Syria, Israel has consistently targeted Iranian personnel and supply routes used to transfer weapons to its proxies. The fall of Aleppo and potentially other cities bordering Lebanon could ...

  9. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    (For example, a B in a regular class would be a 3.0, but in honors or AP class it would become a B+, or 3.33). Sometimes the 5-based weighing scale is used for AP courses and the 4.6-based scale for honors courses, but often a school will choose one system and apply it universally to all advanced courses.