3 hours and 15 minutes for the examination. The AP Exam questions measure students' knowledge of European history and their ability to think historically; questions are based on learning objectives, key concepts, course themes, and AP history disciplinary practices and reasoning skills; every AP Exam question will assess one or more of these practices and skills; practice 1: analyzing historical evidence primary sources; explain the relative historical significance of a source's point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience; evaluate a source's credibility and/or limitations; secondary sources; explain how a historian's claim or argument is supported with evidence; analyze patterns and trends in quantitative data in non-text-based sources; evaluate the effectiveness of a historical claim or argument; practice 2: argument development; make a historically defensible claim in the form of an evaluative thesis; support an argument using specific and relevant evidence; use historical reasoning to explain relationships among pieces of historical evidence; consider ways that diverse or alternative evidence could be used to qualify or modify an argument.
Skill 1: contextualization; use context to explain the relative historical significance of a specific historical development or process; Skill 2: comparison; explain the relative historical significance of similarities and/ or differences between different historical developments or processes; Skill 3: causation; explain the difference between primary and secondary causes and between short- and long-term effects; explain the relative historical significance of different causes and/or effects; Skill 4: continuity and change over time; explain the relative historical significance of specific historical developments in relation to a larger pattern of continuity and/ or change.