Do they have DBQ's in all states, or just NY?

[newParadigm]

Is this just soemthin that the NY Education Department crocked up, or do other schools in opther states have 'em?

They are incredably annoying, i'd just assume write a strait out Essay.

Apparently they are to help one examine primary sources (documents) and apply the information from them to a specific topic.

Wahdaya think?


~new

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

We had them in TN.

 

[SynthDude2001]

We did that when I was in high school a few years back, basically in preparation for the AP US History exam (I don't remember doing them for any other subject, but I could easily be mistaken).

 

[Anubis]

you mean a Data based Essay Question?
they are on the AP tests, so they are National

NY does have that annoying and pointless regents bull sh!t tho, cali is like the ONLY Other state that has it

 

Is this some new thing in the educational system?
I went to ny and got my regents and never recall DBQs.

 

[Mill]

For AP we had them, and in other classes. Alabama here...

 

[IAteYourMother]

DBQ=Document Based Question. AP US? I'm taking AP European history, and yeah, everyone has DBQs. It blow.

 

[newParadigm]

whoa, cali has regents, dint know that.

Anyway, this is an AP course, so its probably in prep for that AP exam, but we've had em since like 6th grade. Maybe for other subjects they are reffered to as DATA Based questions? I dunno.

Is DATA an acronym?

 

[Mill]

Why the hatred of DBQ's? I personally enjoyed them much more than regular essays.

 

[BigJ]

It's pretty easy to get a very good grade on a DBQ compared to writing an essay where you have no sources of information other then your brain. Although you should include some outside information in a DBQ to get a better score.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: newParadime

Is DATA an acronym?

umm no

Main Entry: da·ta
Pronunciation: 'dAt-&, 'dat-, 'dät-
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
: factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation <the data is plentiful and easily available ?H. A. Gleason, Jr.> <comprehensive data on the incidence of Lyme disease>

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: BigJ
It's pretty easy to get a very good grade on a DBQ compared to writing an essay where you have no sources of information other then your brain. Although you should include some outside information in a DBQ to get a better score.

haven't seen a DBQ essay since AP US history and Euro...

 

[newParadigm]

Tanks fer teh definition.


yeah, i guess they are easier to score well but take a longer tyme, b/c ou hafta analyze the Docs.

Im in AP World History, its a fun course but a lot of work. And my Prof has it set up really weird. We covered the first half of the material in the first QUARTER of the year, not wuite sure y, its kinda blew wicked bad, b/c we had to read like 40 pages a noght in the text.

That ewnds friday with the Exam, so i am happy now.

 

[BHeemsoth]

I had them when I attended High School in NY, but not when I attended High School in MA.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: Anubis
you mean a Data based Essay Question?
they are on the AP tests, so they are National

NY does have that annoying and pointless regents bull sh!t tho, cali is like the ONLY Other state that has it

I have a question Anubis, is Dansville near the Concord Resort and the Nevele(sp)?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Originally posted by: Anubis
you mean a Data based Essay Question?
they are on the AP tests, so they are National

NY does have that annoying and pointless regents bull sh!t tho, cali is like the ONLY Other state that has it

I have a question Anubis, is Dansville near the Concord Resort and the Nevele(sp)?

dont think so, i never heard of eeither of thoes things

according to mapquest its over 200 miles from me

 

[BW86]

I know what your feeling. I live in NY and I have to do a couple DBQ's a year. I dont have to take any regents though School did without them in 2001.

 

[wkabel23]

It's Document Based Question and they are the easiest things ever. I honestly can't recall making below a 9 on one, maybe 1-2 times I got an 8 but they were so easy, IMO. They were definitely better than the open ended essays which didn't give you any documents/evidence.

 

[Reikon]

I had to take them in CA. What's a regent though?

 

[DaWhim]

my hs was in nyc.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: newParadime
Is this just soemthin that the NY Education Department crocked up, or do other schools in opther states have 'em?

They are incredably annoying, i'd just assume write a strait out Essay.

Do they have English in New York, or just the rest of the country? (I gave you credit for opther and soemthin assuming they were typos.)

I've never heard the term DBQ outside of AT, but I'm sure I've answered questions based on documents before.

 

[IAteYourMother]

If you took the AP for a history class, you would know. And while DBQs are far easier than essays and MC, all essays blow

 

[mitchafi]

I used to dread those things in AP U.S. History. I am terrible at any/all types of essays.

 

[PHiuR]

dbq's are teh e-z!
from ny - yes i had them dont know about elsewhere.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Reikon
I had to take them in CA. What's a regent though?

the NYS Regents program is basically the normal HS classes and such, in NYS you are REQUIRED to take like 3 years of a language 4 years of English, 3 math 3 science... in order to graduate with a regents diploma, if you don't do that you get the idiot diploma, this sh!t really isn't hard so if you fail it your a moron

it also makes every public school in NY teach just about the same damn thing because at the end of each 1/2 year you have regents exams, all the schools take them on the same day at the same time, and they are all the same,, happens again in the spring, and this is why i graduated on June 23rd, i had a regents final on the 21st, it was physics, 100 question multiple choice, and so you realize how stupid this is, we rounded gravity to 10m/s/s because "it was easier to calculate that way"

the reasoning is its supposed to be better. make people smarter and BS, truth is its pure crap and people end up not learning anything in HS

i think private schools don't have them, 5 years ago when I was in HS they told us Cali had them also, that might have changed