Hello all, it’s almost April, and you know what this means, one month until AP exams. I’ve started reading AMSCO, however, what I have noticed is that it lacks depth when it comes to FRQs and DBQs. For example, a 2008 FRQ asks for an analysis of the market revolution(1820s-1860s). AMSCO does not make mention of the market revolution. This seems to prevail for many of the essay topics required in the official AP exam FRQ/DBQs. What is one supposed to do?(I’m only reading AMSCO and CrashCourse. I haven’t touched the textbook.)</p>
You could just go on collegeboard.com and use their essays from the actual exams.</p>
Sorry, the market revolution is present. What i meant was enough information. Reading past essay topics isn’t going to prepare me for essay topics this year…</p>
Oh, completely misread your post. You mean you read the prompt and looked to AMSCO for information, and it wasn’t in there? Yeah, that’s kinda disturbing. Although, I’ve practiced with a few official FRQ prompts and AMSCO seemed pretty adequate. Anywho, I guess you could just try to supplement it with other sources. If you’ve got time, you could go to the library and get one of those thick history books. I did, and whenever I feel that a prep book glossed over something, I flip to the corresponding section in the history book and read it at great length. Then I never forget the essentials of that bit again. IF you’ve got time, of course.</p>
Lol, I hope the DBQ isn’t about the Market Revolution. I don’t even know what that is lol.</p>
Yeahh, I was embarrassed to admit it but neither do I. I think it had something to do with the Jacksonian Era or something? And that’s about all I know and it’s probably not true.</p>
Haha… yeah… no idea what that is 
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I am taking the class, but I literally don’t do any work in it… I just skim 30 minutes before tests and forget the material as soon as I’ve finished. I suppose that’s not so great… I’m going to find AMSCO this weekend and become serious about APUSH!</p>
Yeah, you really gotta get into your AMSCO. I just got Direct Hits like five minutes ago in the mail, can’t wait to start reading :)</p>