<p>REAL TITLE:AP Advice</p>
<p>I'm taking AP US and AP Eng Lang next year any comments, advice, suggestions?</p>
<p>Also, if you have any great study tips to share, feel free?</p>
<p>Thanks! :D</p>
<p>When I was in high school, many people considered taking AP US History as signing your social life and free time away because of the heavy course load. I had heard students from other schools saying similar things. However, I strongly disagree with what they said. Maybe its just because I had an interest in history in the first place, or because I had an amazing teacher, but it was actually one of my favorite classes in high school. Was there a lot of reading? Yes. A lot of study guides and personal note taking? Yes, but that’s expected out of any AP course (that’s why it’s AP after all!) Memorization is also important for writing essays based on info they give you (I forget what they are called). Overall, just keep up with the reading, learn how to memorize important terms, and you should do excellently.</p>
<p>As for AP English Language…hands down the worst class that I took in high school, mainly due to the teacher that I had. Papers were graded with extreme difficulty and minor errors could result in fifteen percent or more of the grade taken off. I also had an issue with the teacher about her loosing my works cited, which resulted in me getting a D on a major paper. Although some of the books that we read that year were my all-time favorites (Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby), the teacher made it extremely unpleasing. There was also too much reading comprehension type of tests, which I dislike because literature is in my opinion very subjective, so I didn’t bother taking the AP test. The class made me dislike English so much that I almost opted out of taking AP English Lit the next year.</p>
<p>Overall, study hard, read the books, just do what you have been doing in your other classes. I would say that the work load is heavy, but definitely do-able. Also, you may have wonderful teachers for these classes, or terrible teachers, which puts a lot of effect on how much you get out of the class and whether you will succeed with what you have learned.</p>
<p>APUSH is very easy, just a lot of stuff to understand. I didn’t really study for it, though I wished I did. My recommendation is to practice the essay questions as much as possible. It is the toughest part of the test. As for AP English, I don’t know.</p>