<p>Heyy everyone. I am afraid that I might get a 2 in this AP exam next year, so I've created this thread so we can all prepare for this demanding subject well in advance!</p>
<p>Let's work to get us some 5s!</p>
<p>I’m signed up for this exam next year, but it’s the first year the teacher is teaching the class, and frankly, I have no idea what to expect - from the teacher or the class itself.</p>
<p>Well this is a little premature, haha. If you guys are really that stressed out the year before you take the class, just get a prep book like Barron’s or Princeton Review and read it a time or two over the summer. This is arguably the easiest AP subject/test, and most of us on here are self-studying, some of who procrastinated until the night before. The ironic thing is that they will probably get high scores, since this is CC. But really there is nothing to worry about. Only idiots score 1’s or 2’s on this exam, so as long as you’re not an idiot, you will do fine.</p>
<p>I will be self-studying this class as a junior next fall. I took my first AP exam today, World History, after only one semester of an AP class and I am pretty sure I passed, possibly even a 4 depending on the grading of my essays. I plan on getting the Princeton Review and Barron’s book this summer and reading it over and getting familiar with the material!</p>
<p>I’m bookmarking this thread already!</p>
<p>In what style should one write the FRQ? Is it a formal sort of essay with a thesis and all that, or is it an “Answer the Prompt” sort of approach?</p>
<p>don’t you think starting now is a bit too early?
i mean its a pretty easy exam</p>
<p>Ya you guys. I just took this test today with no formal course whatsoever. All I did was read a few prepbooks and take a few MC tests. The test was pretty easy. Not as easy for me as Environmental Science, but easy.</p>
<p>Well, this is a little early, but I will be self-studying this next year (junior). I’m planning on getting Barron’s and PR and just reading them until I know them pretty well… it’s an easy test. Don’t freak out so much. :)</p>
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Demanding? This is considered the EASIEST AP class/exam, 99% of the time. Every single freshman at my school takes it, if that helps prove the point.</p>
<p>I didn’t take it as a freshman (I enrolled too late), so I plan to self-(not)study it this Summer and take the exam next year, just so I can have an extra 5 on my record. :p</p>
<p>APUSH is something you should be worried about. Not APHG</p>
<p>I think that saying which one is harder is purely subjective, SeekingUni. I found myself studying more for AP Human Geography, which I took this year, than for US History(I got a 5 on the APUSH exam and a 710 on the SAT2 for US Hist).</p>
<p>From what I’ve read in another thread, the College Board stated there will be some changes to either the APHG curriculum or the APHG exam next year. Be on the lookout for them.</p>
<p>Why is up right now? Seriously, just make one a week before the exam. That’s when I started self-studying anyway.</p>
<p>^ Unless you really want to learn this stuff well. Most of it was very interesting for me.</p>
<p>I’m self studying, which book is the best? Also, will the books be updated for the changes?</p>
<p>Ummm A year before?
You can totally do this within a month… Just saying
Remember though if you are self-studying then Barron alone is not enough 
I fell for that this year! But it could be sufficient if you are well in touch with current issues and conflicts and contemporary global dynamics…
But if you don’t know anything then get 1 more prep book beside Barron (PR I heard is great) or textbook 
It’s easy if you read the right stuff.</p>
<p>bump10char</p>
<p>Gosh, I feel like CC kids should remember the definition of sarcasm sometimes.</p>
<p>I skipped school and self-studied a full day, and felt fine. Not much need for this thread; it was an easy-ish test. I felt Barrons was sufficient, but others thought it needed to be supplemented with PR, which wouldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I took the AP Human Geography 2010 exam, expect a 5 the MC was kind of tricky, but the FRQ was supremely easy. If you need any advice about what type of questions to expect on MC or FRQ I’m here.</p>