History & Social Sciences AP Courses
The DBQ-and-LEQ AP courses — US History, World History, European History, the Government courses, the Economics courses, Psychology, and Human Geography.
About this category
The History and Social Science AP exams are characterized by long-form writing tasks: the Document-Based Question (DBQ) and the Long Essay Question (LEQ) for the three History exams, and the argument essay for AP US Government. The other social-science courses (Psychology, Human Geography, the two Economics courses, Comparative Government) use a free-response format weighted on conceptual application rather than long-form writing.
Each course tile below links to a full course detail page with the official exam format and timing, the published unit weightings, six annotated FRQ walkthroughs, a scoring-rubric breakdown, a tips-for-a-5 checklist, and a curated list of recommended resources. Every page on this site is server-rendered HTML — search engines and screen readers see the same content you see, and curl returns the full text of every page.
History & Social Sciences AP Courses
AP Comparative Government and Politics
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP European History
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP Human Geography
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP Macroeconomics
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP Microeconomics
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP Psychology
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP United States Government and Politics
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP United States History
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
AP World History: Modern
12 units · 6 FRQ walkthroughs · scoring rubric
How to use a category hub
Category hubs are the fastest way to navigate ExamEdge US when you are taking more than one AP course in the same field. Most US high school students who sit a STEM AP exam in May (Calculus AB, Physics 1, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics) are also taking at least one other course in the same category, and the study habits that move scores in one of these courses tend to move scores in the others — particularly the habit of working FRQs against the published rubric rather than re-reading the textbook.
Open two course pages side by side from this hub and compare their exam format tables. You will notice that the College Board uses a small number of recurring section structures across categories: the Calculus / Statistics / Computer Science exams share a calculator-vs-no-calculator split; the History exams share the DBQ-and-LEQ structure; the language exams share the four-task interpretive / interpersonal / presentational / cultural format. Recognizing the recurring structures lets you transfer pacing strategy from one exam to the next without re-learning the format.
From here, jump into any individual course detail page, then drill into a unit guide or an FRQ walkthrough. Use the study planner to spread the work across six weeks, and use the quiz tools page to escalate from single-topic drills to mixed-topic drills as test day approaches.