<p>Anything you really learned from preparing for or taking the test? Please share.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher (who has a decade of experience, plus graded exams last summer in Kentucky) says that the best prep books are those geared toward the AP exam, since it's theoretically more difficult than the SAT. I've been using REA as a general study aid and I've been doing well on tests in class, for which my teacher uses questions from released APUSH exams. So a standard APUSH review book (any of them would be fine, they all copy each other anyway) should give good review for the SAT II.</p>
<p>AMSCO book.</p>
<p>I second AMSCO. It got me a 760 on the January SAT Subject Test.</p>
<p>besides the book though, what did you feel was the nature of the test? did you have to do a lot of factual memorization, or was it thematic? do i need to memorize presidencies, or historical periods? a lot of dates? curve of test??? </p>
<p>anything is much appreciated</p>
<p>bump on this question</p>
<p>Read your AP US History textbook (I used the American Pageant) and the Princeton Review Cracking the AP US History Exam book to study.</p>
<p>I scored a 720 even though I skipped a few questions on the only time I took it in May.</p>
<p>The REA book is too thick, so that's why I suggested using your text book and the Princeton Review book.</p>
<p>Quite a few questions on American culture--authors/artists/musicians--I was a little surprised by that. Still not hard to score really well without lots of extra studying if you're in AP U.S.</p>
<p>Breadth of understanding seems to be more important than specific factual knowledge, although the latter always helps. APUS will prepare you, no sweat. I took it the fall after I took that course and got a 770.</p>
<p>hmmm but are there any dates you should remember? im taking the sat us history too in may.</p>
<p>im taking it in June. I am not in APUSH because my school doesn't do APs, but my History class is still pretty good. Im planning on reading AMSCO once or twice then dummies and maybe kaplan and then PR the night before or something</p>
<p>Any other recommendations</p>
<p>same with me...my school doesn't offer a APUSH class, just an American History course and it only goes up to 1937 or something. im wondering how much of the test runs from 1937 to the present day...</p>
<p>Since that includes part of the Great Depression, WWII, and the entire Cold War, quite a bit of it does.</p>
<p>pooey. </p>
<p>how about time? were you easily able to answer 90-95 questions in an hour, or did you have to practice that a lot? did you jump around a lot, or drive through the whole thing in order? </p>
<p>i had expected the test to be chronological, but it wasn't..how did you deal with this?</p>
<p>bump on this question. id like ot know also</p>
<p>I'm taking it in may but I've taken the practice test from the official study guide and a few others. Answering 90-95 questions in an hour is absolutely no problem for me at all, i actually finished the practice test comfortably in about 40 minutes. For me, with any test, i go straight in order and don't skip around. If i don't know it i guess and move on. This strategy has been succesful for me in the past (ap world, euro, geo) and i'm hoping it will be on this test.</p>
<p>I'd just say that knowing random history facts is definitely an asset. On the actual test, when I took it, I got about ~4 questions due to randomness that others struggled with. You really don't know what's on it. But boning up on your US history random facts never hurts.</p>
<p>I'd just say if you're going for top scores, don't omit. I learned that the hard way. =[</p>