Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is in the works — a chapter-simulation program covering the full scope of a world history survey course, organized chapter by chapter. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s World History Survey program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a world history survey course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The program is organized across 14 chapters plus in-depth practice sets, an applied-evidence set, and an integrative synthesis set, covering the historian’s methods and global scale, early civilizations and first states, classical empires, post-classical religions and trade, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania before global contact in outline, the Mongol era in outline, early modern empires and global trade, revolutions and industrialization in outline, nineteenth-century imperialism, the First World War and interwar crisis, the Second World War in outline, the Cold War and decolonization, the postcolonial world in outline, and the contemporary world in outline. There is no licensing exam at the end of a world history survey course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s World History Survey program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate world history survey course: original practice questions organized chapter by chapter — early civilizations and first states, classical and post-classical worlds, the early modern era and global trade, industrialization and empire, the world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, and the contemporary world — matched by textbook and edition so chapter drills and timed simulation exams follow the chapter your instructor is teaching. It rehearses your instructor’s chapter tests and finals — there is no licensing exam for a college course — with results reported by chapter.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of a world history survey course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
Practice organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 14-chapter structure that mirrors the standard world history survey course, from studying world history — sources, scale, and comparison through the contemporary world, in outline, plus in-depth practice sets, an applied-evidence set, and an integrative synthesis set. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the imperialism lectures? Drill that chapter until the motives-and-resistance pattern feels automatic to apply to a new region. World war test in ten days? Work the war and crisis chapters in sequence, the way your course presents them.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, the post-classical world, or decolonization — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
World History Survey has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a world history survey course covers and how to study it, see our World History Survey study guide.
| Undergraduate world history survey — the course sequence this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate college course (the standard two-semester world history survey, World History Survey I–II; typically 3 credits per semester and a common general-education requirement) |
| Standard scope | Studying world history — sources, scale, and comparison across regions; early civilizations and the first states in river valleys and beyond; classical empires — Mediterranean, South Asian, and East Asian worlds; religions, trade routes, and post-classical empires; Africa, the Americas, and Oceania before sustained global contact, in outline; the Mongol era and Afro-Eurasian integration, in outline; early modern empires and the first global trade; Atlantic revolutions and industrialization, in outline; empires and resistance — nineteenth-century imperialism; the First World War and the interwar crisis; the Second World War, in outline; the Cold War and decolonization; the postcolonial world and global integration, in outline; the contemporary world — globalization and its discontents, in outline |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | Chapter-based practice across 14 chapters + in-depth, applied, and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
The program follows the standard chapter organization of the course, below. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters.
| Chapter | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Studying World History: Sources, Scale, and Comparison | — |
| Early Civilizations and the First States | — |
| Classical Empires: Mediterranean, South Asian, and East Asian Worlds | — |
| Religions, Trade Routes, and Post-Classical Empires | — |
| Africa, the Americas, and Oceania Before Global Contact in Outline | — |
| The Mongol Era and Afro-Eurasian Integration in Outline | — |
| Early Modern Empires and the First Global Trade | — |
| Revolutions and Industrialization in Outline | — |
| Empires and Resistance: Nineteenth-Century Imperialism | — |
| The First World War and the Interwar Crisis | — |
| The Second World War in Outline | — |
| The Cold War and Decolonization | — |
| The Postcolonial World and Global Integration in Outline | — |
| The Contemporary World in Outline | — |
The outline chapters deserve a note: several eras — notably the pre-contact Americas, Africa, and Oceania, the Mongol interval, and the contemporary period — are carried at orientation depth in most survey texts, and instructors divide the two semesters at different turning points. The program’s textbook selector maps practice onto your book’s organization, so your drills carry the eras — and the weights — your course actually assigns.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select World History Survey, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — a world survey builds era on era — the trade networks of the post-classical chapters are the inheritance the early modern chapters globalize, and the empires of the nineteenth century explain the wars and decolonizations of the twentieth.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. World history survey is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official world history exam at the end of it. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate survey.
Does the program cover both semesters of the survey? Yes — the program follows the standard two-semester arc as one narrative: the first semester’s scope runs from early civilizations through the early modern world in most organizations, and the second continues through industrialization, the world wars, and the contemporary era. Chapter drills let you work in whichever semester you are taking.
Which textbook does the program follow? The program is organized around the standard era-and-region structure of the world history survey, and the textbook-and-edition selector maps practice onto your book’s chapter order when you set up your course. No textbook is named, branded, or reproduced — the selector only aligns chapter numbering.
How is this different from an AP World History program? AP World History is a high-school course built toward a single external examination with its own framework. This program simulates the college survey — instructor-set tests over the college course’s scope and organization — and rehearses those, chapter by chapter.
Does the program cover non-European history in real depth? It follows the survey’s own design, in which Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania carry full narrative weight in every era — as centers of state-building, trade, and belief in their own right, not as backdrops to European action. Regional balance is a structural feature of the standard course and of the program alike.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a unit exam over one era, or a cumulative final.
My course splits the semesters at a different year. Will the practice still line up? In most cases, yes. Institutions divide the survey at different turning points and weight regions differently. The textbook selector maps the program’s chapters onto your book’s organization, and chapter drills can be assembled by era and topic when a boundary differs.
Does the program include primary-source work? The program rehearses the survey’s examinable knowledge — eras, regions, connections, and comparisons — in chapter-simulation form. Document analysis assignments and essays follow your own course’s texts and prompts, which your syllabus describes; the era fluency built here is what that work spends.
I have not taken history since high school. Is that a problem? No — the survey assumes no college-level prerequisite and begins with its own methods chapter. Returning students generally find the scale, rather than any single era, to be the adjustment, and the chapter structure is designed to build that scale progressively.
When can I start using the World History Survey program? The program is in the works. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of a world history survey course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.