Section IA: Multiple Choice | 60 Questions | 1 Hour and 10 Minutes | 60% of Exam Score 

3-4 Question Sets Accompanied by 1-2 Sources

Section IB: Individual Student Project-Exam Day Validation Question | 1 Question | 10 Minutes | 1.5% of Exam Score 

Respond in writing to one of the project oral defense questions providing analysis, reflection, comparison, or evaluation of at least one of the sources they used for their course project

Section IIA: Short-Answer Questions  | 3 Questions | 40 Minutes | 18% of Exam Score

Based on a text source, visual source, and a broad thematic course concept 

Section IIB: Document-Based Question | 1 Question | 45 Minutes | 12% of Exam Score

Respond to a prompt with a defensible thesis and use at least three of the five documents provided

Individual Student Project | 8.5% of Exam Score  

Three week project defining a research topic and presenting to a teacher in addition to an oral defense 

Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora 900 BCE-1500 | 20–25%

Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance 1500-1865 | 30–35%

Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom 1865-1940 | 20–25%

Unit 4: Movements and Debates 1940-2000 | 20–25%