<p>I made a 5! I am so proud of myself. Reading the textbook alone was just obnoxiously debilitating.</p>
<p>What textbook are you guys using? Brinkley?</p>
<p>The textbook I’m reading for class is American Nation, I don’t know what edition. There’s not that much work to do (read 3 chapters, 2 essays, and a packet of responses we have to fill out for each chapter), so I’m starting it on Friday. I don’t go to school until 9/6, so I have a lot of time. Anyway, I want a 5 this year, but I’m worried because my friends who took it last year got mainly 4s. Most of them had gotten 5s on WHAP the year before like me. </p>
<p>I heard it’s super boring and the essays are nonsense, but I’m up for the challenge. @TheVisionary my APUSH teacher isn’t very good either and her success rate for students isn’t very high, so I can relate although I’m not self-studying. For people who’ve taken the test, would you say it’s easy to get a 5? </p>
<p>I got a 790/800 on the World SAT subject test this year, which I was disappointed with at first, but accepted. I feel like I made some silly mistakes. So I hope I can get a 790 or 800 on the US in June.</p>
<p>Most of my friends who take the APs that I’ll take the year after buy review books and a) don’t use them at all b)use it 2-3 weeks before the test and haven’t done any work all year expecting to get a 5 or c)don’t study at all and blame it on the review book if they didn’t get the score they wanted. So I usually just ask one of my wealthy friends who didn’t use theirs if they know of anyone that finished who didn’t use theirs (knowing it’s them) and they give them to me for free.</p>
<p>There are two recommendations I can make:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Buy Crash Course. This is seriously the greatest prep book I have ever used, and I’ve taken 6 AP exams. It does an absolutely wonderful job of combining information into periods and into concise points. It also cuts out the irrelevant information, as it has looked at past exams to find the most common topics. Quite a few of the points in here were in fact on this past exam. I cannot stress enough how good this book was for preparing me.</p></li>
<li><p>Pay attention in class and, especially, to primary sources. I understand primary sources may be boring, but if you can learn to analyze them you will be able to tackle the DBQ with ease.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>get direct hits us history in a flash. The topics in the book line up soo well with the exam, especially the essays.</p>
<p>Yesterday was the first day of school. My APUSH teacher never taught APUSH…ever. I never took an AP class so we’re in the same boat. I’m a bit nervous, but I’m excited. This is going to be amazing!</p>
<p>Does anyone have advice on the best way to effectively take notes while reading the text? I find myself writing down the tinest details…</p>
<p>Don’t write down the tiniest details; it’s just a total waste of time. Just note the most important dates, events and people and know the general thing that was happening at the time. Our teacher just gave us sub-par notes in class and the ones that actually passed the class were the ones thatwent home and read the text while the others were barely passing with 60s and 70s. Just force yourself to LOVE History and I mean LOVE IT- LOVE IT, you heard me right: LOVE IT!! Take note of what you really like about history and learn all you can about it so you have less to worry about and focus more on the ones you don’t (for me I liked the wars and the violence the most so I focused on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, the Alamo, WWI, WWII, etc. etc.) and didn’t have to learn much about them when we did do the unit). Granted history can be VERY BORING sometimes and no matter what you do it can and will make you drowsy and slumbersome so persevere, study effectively, do tons of APUSH practice tests and find a way to make it interesting for yourself. (Our class used the American Pageant textbook)</p>
<p>i took ap euro last year and got a 3 on the exam. i obviously do not want to study the same way for APUSH this year. does anyone know how i can get an A in the class and how the test is structured. is it the same as euro, 80 mc, DBQ, and 2 FRQ’s?what can i do from day one to get an A in the class and a 5 on the exam. sorry ive repeated this but i started of my first two ap tests, euro and psych with a 3 and i really need a good grade in the class/exam. any effective ways of studying for the class exams? when should i start review for theses test and the one in may.i know a lot of people have already answered this on the thread but it is so counfusing on which post and which page i should find them in. thanks cc=)</p>
<p>thanks, that really helped, i havent heard the brainstorm before looking at the docs before. Was there any specific way that you studied for the tests to get an A.</p>
<p>So far I’ve found [Home</a> - AP US History Exam Review](<a href=“http://www.apexamreview.com%5DHome”>http://www.apexamreview.com) to be pretty helpful.</p>
<p>I read the exam information section and it tells you basically how the whole exam works. Pretty helpful to know from the start. Also been using the textbook outlines for american pageant (that’s the textbook we are using). Makes studying a whole lot easier!!</p>
<p>Does anyone know what Youtube videos are the best for learning about APUSH (I currently would prefer colonial/pre-Revolutionary times)?</p>
<p>I’m taking Ap USH this year and am okay with the key concepts, but am struggling miserably with creating theses for my essays…does anyone have a clear, concise method?</p>
<p>I just had plenty if practice. And whenever I came up with an epic thesis statement I used it for all my essays haha.</p>
<p>But don’t essays generally ask for different things?</p>
<p>yes just substitute whatever the subject was into the sentence!</p>
<p>I am taking APUSH this year and it’s my teacher’s first year teaching (not an AP class) it’s her first year teaching anything. She just graduated, fresh out of college and obviously as you guessed she is not right for teaching APUSH. She is nice and everything and accepts suggestions and stuff. So you guys who took APUSH earlier, I would love to know how your teachers taught it and maybe you had some excellent teachers (how they taught it?) The way she teaches is that she assigns us reading every night (we use Out of Many) and then kinda goes over the notes in a power point. We do other activities like some DBQ’s and everything. We have reading quizzes and we can use our notes on it. Her tests are kinda hard, part of it being she not teaching. 75% of people failed her first test. It is not that much of a college course. So I would like to know how you were taught and I am thinking to write her an email telling her everything (any thoughts on that) This is part of the reason, why I want to know how you were taught it. I am writing her like an intensive email it’s going to be like a 5 paragraph essay lol. And i ordered the Amsco so I can get a 5 on the AP test.</p>
<p>Jay1412:
You get to use notes on your reading quizzes? I have never heard of that in an AP class. I wouldn’t be complaining if I were you!</p>
<p>@apstruggles we do get to use our notes on the reading quizzes. basically they are 20 questions with like vocab, people, acts, laws and stuff. we can use our notes but it’s like she gives us 15 mins to do it. cuz she’s like in college you will have like 30 multiple choice questions online and you can use your notes on it. but you just get like 10 mins to do it. and i am not complaining that we can use our notes.</p>
<p>How is everyone’s APUSH class going so far this year?</p>