This concise and accessible text is structured and written to follow the current AP Course and Exam Description. Examine how human behavior transforms the earth's surface in response to changing social, cultural, and political needs in short, focused sections. The text covers all topic areas for the AP Human Geography course and examines current events and key theoretical areas such as environmental determinism and psychogeography. A Teacher Resource is available only to teachers and with a school purchase order by contacting your Sales Consultant.
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Explore how people have shaped the earth!
Topical organization—68 topics aligned directly to the College Board framework.
Within each of the seven course units, the content, topics, big ideas, enduring understandings, learning objectives, and essential knowledge focus on developing the essential skills of geographers for AP® exam and college success.
Each topic includes —an Essential Question. —Key Terms. —a narrative aligned to the course framework.
Each chapter includes —Learning Objectives from the CED. —seven multiple-choice questions. —one free-response question.
Each unit includes —an Enduring Understanding. —an Applying Geographic Skills feature that provides students opportunities to use the skills they have learned while they review key content.
Special features include —Think as a Geographer—topic activities develop methods and course skills (concepts and processes, spatial relationships, data analysis, source analysis, and scale analysis). —Write as a Geographer—unit activities build writing skills for answering free-response questions needed for the AP® exam. —Geographic Perspectives—unit activities develop enduring understandings of big ideas (patterns and spatial organization, impacts and interactions, and spatial processes and societal change).
A separate Teacher Resource includes an answer key; correlations to the CED; and reproducible activity pages that cover topics such as justice and race.
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David Palmer
For over 20 years, David Palmer has taught social studies at Eaglecrest High School in the Cherry Creek, Colorado, School District and currently teaches world geography and AP® Human Geography. He is a Colorado Geographic Alliance teacher consultant, College Board® consultant, 2012 NCGE Distinguished Geography Teacher award winner and a table leader, reader, and test item creator for the AP® Human Geography Exam. David has taught and presented at numerous institutes and conferences and has traveled to India and Japan to develop case studies for the AAG’s Center for Global Geography Education.
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T4038-G
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Perfection Learning Editors
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9-12
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PLC
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AP Human Geography
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Advanced Placement®—Social Studies
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AP Human Geography is widely recommended as an introductory-level AP course. Students tend to regard the course content as "easy," while the exam is difficult. Historically, the majority of students earn the lowest possible score on this exam.
US Government, Psychology, Human Geography, and Environmental Science tend to be easier since there is comparatively less to cover before the exam. Also keep in mind that some schools weight AP classes, so they can boost your GPA if you do well.
For the 2023 AP® exam season, about half (54.4%) of the students who took the AP® Human Geography exam passed with a 3 or better. The mean score for the AP® HG exam was 2.75. The statistics included above are based on the number of students who take the AP® Human Geography exam each year.
In AP® Human Geography, unit 2 covers population & migrations. The following guide will be updated periodically with hyperlinks to excellent resources. As you are reviewing for this unit, focus on the key concepts!
To answer your question directly, no, you can't score a literal zero on an AP test; the scores range from 1 to 5. Even if you were to leave the entire test blank, you'd still get a 1. Now, to earn that score of 1, it means the test taker demonstrates no understanding of the material.
Most colleges require a 3 or higher for college credit. AP Human Geography can be used with the right study tools, course instruction, and dedication. In 2020, almost 49% of students scored a 3 or higher on the AP HUG exam. This number jumped to 54% in 2021, and dipped again in 2022 to 53.2%.
And like all AP courses, AP Human Geography can help you stand out during the college application process and gives you the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both.
Usually, a 70 to 75 percent out of 100 translates to a 5. However, there are some exams that are exceptions to this rule of thumb. The AP Grades that are reported to students, high schools, colleges, and universities in July are on AP's five-point scale: 5: Extremely well qualified.
AP test scores are indeed "curved," but it's more accurate to call it a "scaling process." Instead of a traditional curve that compares your performance to other students' performance, the AP exam scaling process converts your raw score (the number of points you earned through multiple-choice questions and free- ...
Consider that classes commonly thought of as the most challenging AP classes (like Physics C: Mechanics and Japanese) have high passing rates while classes often considered easier (like Human Geography and U.S. Government and Politics) are among the classes with the lowest passing rates.
AP Human Geography is definitely worth taking. It's extremely useful as an AP social science, like Psych 🧠 or US Gov 👩⚖️ Even if you are considering going into STEM , this is still a useful class! If you start to find it difficult, don't get discouraged!
The AP Human Geography exam has an average score that varies slightly from year to year, but it typically hovers around a 2.9 out of 5. To check the most recent average scores, you can refer to the College Board website, which provides a yearly report on AP exam scores for all subjects.
AP Human Geography – 54.40% AP English Language – 56.10% These 6 lowest pass rate subjects ^^ also have some of the most test-takers. So even though the pass rates are lower, WAY more students take them in the first place.
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