Exam Overview
Sections: 2
Section I: Multiple Choice
93-120 = 5
82-92 = 4
66-81= 3
48-65= 2
0-47= 1
Units of Study
Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy
Unit 2: Interactions Between Branches of Government
Unit 3: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
Unit 4: Ideologies & Beliefs
Unit 5: Political Participation
Big Ideas in APGAP
Constitutionalism (CON):
Liberty & Order (LOR)
Civic Participation in a Representative Democracy (PRD):
Competing Policy Making Interests (PMI)
Methods of Political Analysis (MPA)
Course Content
(What YOU are Learning & Doing)
Enduring Understandings (EUs):
Learning Objectives (LOs):
Essential Knowledge Statements (EKs):
Foundational Documents & Supreme Court Cases:
Foundational Documents
Sections: 2
Section I: Multiple Choice
- 55 Questions
- 1 hour & 20 mins
- 50% of total exam
- 4 Questions
- 1 hour and 40 mins
- 50% of total exam
- Concept Application: 20 mins (suggested)
- Quantitative Analysis: 20 mins (suggested)
- SCOTUS Comparison: 20 mins (suggested)
- Argument Essay: 40 mins (suggested)
93-120 = 5
82-92 = 4
66-81= 3
48-65= 2
0-47= 1
Units of Study
Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy
Unit 2: Interactions Between Branches of Government
Unit 3: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
Unit 4: Ideologies & Beliefs
Unit 5: Political Participation
Big Ideas in APGAP
Constitutionalism (CON):
- Checks and Balances
- Federalism
- Majority v Minority Rule
Liberty & Order (LOR)
- Balance between order and liberty
- Interpretations have changed over time
Civic Participation in a Representative Democracy (PRD):
- Citizens engage and participate
- Popular Sovereignty
- Individualism
- Republicanism
Competing Policy Making Interests (PMI)
- Multiple Actors (players)
- Different institutions
- All produce policies
Methods of Political Analysis (MPA)
- Political scientists measure political behavior, attitudes, ideologies, & institutions and how they have changed over time
Course Content
(What YOU are Learning & Doing)
Enduring Understandings (EUs):
- Focus on particular aspect of a big idea- long term takeaways and key concepts
Learning Objectives (LOs):
- Are what YOU the student must be able to show using essential knowledge
Essential Knowledge Statements (EKs):
- Statements that highlight specific content that demonstrates the learning objectives
Foundational Documents & Supreme Court Cases:
- Most important and relevant documents and cases that highlight all of the different parts of the American Political system
Foundational Documents
- The new format of the exam requires a set of documents that EVERYONE taking exam must read and be an expert on
- The FRQs will then ask you to do something with those documents
- *Note- This is very similar to SBAC & DBQs from history classes
- Declaration of Independence
- Articles of Confederation
- U.S. Constitution
- Federalist No 10
- Brutus No 1
- Federalist No 51
- Federalist No 70
- Federalist No 78
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King)
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- U.S. v. Lopez
- Engel v. Vitale
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Tinker v. Des Moines
- New York Times v. U.S.
- Schenck v. U.S.
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Roe v. Wade
- McDonald v. Chicago
- Brown v. Board
- Citizens United v. FEC
- Baker v. Carr
- Shaw v. Reno
- Marbury v. Madison