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Home > AP Courses and Exams > AP Exam Questions > Exam Format: United States History Exam Format: United States History The exam is three hours and five minutes long. In Section I, students answer 80 multiple-choice questions in 55 minutes. In Section II, students are given 15 minutes to plan and 45 minutes to write an essay on the document-based question (DBQ), and 70 minutes to answer two essay questions. Suggested time to be spent on each of the essay questions is 5 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of writing. % of Grade Number of Questions Total Time Allotted Reading Period Section I 50 80 55 minutes Section II 50   Part A 1 DBQ Essay 60 minutes 15 minutes Part B 1 Essay 35 minutes 5 minutes Part c 1 Essay 35 minutes 5 minutes See also... The AP United States History Exam

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