<p>Have any of you ever surrived your APUSH class based solely on AMSCO? I'm thinking about just reading this book for the class.. There are just too many details in the text book that make it confusing to remember the "big picture." What do you guys think? Do you think my teacher will give us detailed tests or should I be able to get a 90+ if I focus on AMSCO? I like how easy it is to understand it too..</p>
<p>I'm doing that, and on all of the summer assignments I've done fine, but instead of AMSCO I've been using REA.</p>
<p>REA is an AMAZING USH book. i prefer it over AMSCO</p>
<p>our school doenst offer AP USH,</p>
<p>so ive been using REA to supplement our school's USH textbook (which wasnt even bad in the first place - "A Concise History" by henretta *not sure on title) totake the AP USH exam.</p>
<p>needless to say, i got a 5 ;)</p>
<p>in my experience, AMSCO is not enough for class tests even though it is enough for the AP test. </p>
<p>because you have a test focused solely on one chapter, the questions will be more in depth and detailed and will be based on your textbook not AMSCO.</p>
<p>What about, lets say, for your mid-term or finals? Would using prep books be a wise choice given the time period of the chapters that you will be tested on?</p>
<p>yes, I actually did that and got good grades on both the midterm and final (95 and 96)...I got the very detailed questions wrong though</p>
<p>it's ridiculous to read through that much of the textbook so yeah, studying AMSCO is good.</p>
<p>I usually skim read the textbook and then used AMSCO to actually do the studying for my tests and quizzes.</p>