Exam Overview:
The AP World History Exam is 3 hours and 15 minutes long and includes both a 95-minute multiple-choice and short-answer section (Section I) and a 100-minute free-response section (Section II).  Each section is divided into two parts, as shown in the table below.  Student performance on these four parts will be compiled and weighted to determine an AP Exam score.  

The AP World History exam breaks down in the following ways.  Notice there are 55 Multiple Choice Questions, 4 Short Answer Questions, a DBQ (Document Based Question), and a LEQ (Long Essay Question; which you will get to choose from 2 LEQs).  This information is taken from https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-world-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf 

Section I comes in two parts: MULTIPLE CHOICE (55 Questions in 55 minutes) & SHORT ANSWER (3 questions in 40 minutes).  All together this counts for 60% of the AP World History exam.  Below are links to pages for each part.  CLICK THE BANNERS BELOW to go to a page devoted to each subsection:

Section II comes in two parts: the DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION (1 question in 60 minutes with a 15 minute reading period included) & LONG ESSAY QUESTION (1 question (chosen from 3 options).  All together this counts for 40% of the AP World History exam.  Below are links to pages for each part.  CLICK THE BANNERS BELOW to go to a page devoted to each subsection: