[header] How to answer document based questions for ap tests [title] Understand the context for dbq questions. [step] These questions briefly come up in ap exams and related high-level academic testing. Knowing when to anticipate these kinds of questions will help you deal with them as they arise. 
[title] Figure out how to use primary and secondary source documents. [step] In some kinds of tests, only primary documents will be included for dbq questions.