<p>I've got AP English Language, AP US History, AP Biology, SAT II Biology, and SAT II US History coming up in the next week...and I almost started studying!</p>
<p>Any inspirational cramming stories?</p>
<p>Haha. Hopefully my AP Chem cramming story will be inspirational. I'll tell you around mid-July.</p>
<p>I crammed APUSH (self-study + never went to my reg. USH class) in a week before the test and got a 4. I don't know if that's too inspirational, since it was only a 4. (What was on that INSANE MC again? Jacksonian Perfectionism...? Gah...)</p>
<p>Two of my friends studied the night before the APUSH test and got 5s. Holy moly. I guess they listened in class or were good at the subject or maybe just got extremely lucky, because I doubt the USH exam will be that easy. I certainly couldn't do that.</p>
<p>I flat out didn't study for the APUSH and got a 5
For the Euro I was still studying under my desk in math the period beforehand and got a 5. I also answered one of the essay questions entirely using information I remembered from my freshman world history class (we hadn't covered that far back in Euro). I also included the Dixie Chicks in my DBQ on WWI Germany.</p>
<p>I'm also hoping for a cramming miracle story for ap bio and euro</p>
<p>My junior year i took AP English Lang and AP Bio. I barely studied at all for the english besides going over format, for AP Bio, our class was intense, but I had forgotten a lot of stuff. I basically crammed like hell the night before until ~2-3 AM and earlier that week reviewed some chapters. I got a 5 easily and thought the exam was a lot easier than I had prepared for. </p>
<p>This year, I'm taking 4 APs - Chem, Physics B, AB Calc, Latin Vergil. I really don't care about Vergil but I plan to major in MCDB so the math/sciences help. Although Yale doesn't give credit for APs, they do let you place out of intros so I'm REALLY hoping for some 5's even though I'm ridiculously unprepared and have been sleeping in class all year...I guess I'll just see how it turns out.</p>
<p>I have AP US H, English Lang, French, and Calc BC next week. I plan to start studying this weekend. If my story turns out to be an inspirational one I'll be sure to tell you about it.</p>
<p>I read about the Glorious Revolution on the drive to the school. That's it. I took the AP Euro test and got a 5</p>
<p>I also got a 5 on stats, no studying</p>
<p>Ok. I wasted my entire weekend on the Internet and the UW course catalog over the past week (too excited for college). Now I'm going to have to cram for Calc BC in a single weekend, AP Euro in a couple of days, and AP Chem in a single weekend. **** CC is so addicting now I'm skipping breakfast due to it!</p>
<p>With a single weekend...</p>
<p>add or subtract 2 hours for doing crap</p>
<p>Friday night: 4:00 - 11:00. 7 - 2 = 5 hours
Saturday: (grrrr I need the timer so I don't sleep in). Oh yeah I'll sleep on the floor! 7:00 - 10:00. 15 - 2 = 13 hours.
Sunday: 7:00 - 10:00: 15 - 2 = 13 hours</p>
<p>Add up to... 28 hours of study.</p>
<p>That does sound like a decent amount of time. I can only be motivated with pressure and thus explains my atrocious procrastination.</p>
<p>Oh and it's much more productive to be actually studying rather worrying over this like I am!</p>
<p>I have never studied extensively for any of my AP's except for the night before or the morning of the exam. </p>
<p>English Language-4...I honestly don't know how I pulled that off
Micro/Macro-4 each..Had A's all year and was pretty solid
World history-5
us govt-4
psychology-4</p>
<p>But the thing with my exams is that all of them were recall and history oriented subjects, where I am strong in. If I was to do that for a class such as AP stat or physics I'd be screwed.</p>
<p>I took Macroecon this semester and did ok.</p>
<p>However, I did not take Microecon and plan to self study for the examination.</p>
<p>However, I'm goign to start my Micro self studying after the Calculus exam which is next tuesday.</p>
<p>Thus, I will have about 4-5 days to learn micro and macro thoroughly to get a 5.</p>
<p>But most of the time will be spent reviewing Chemistry since that's the hardest AP IMO.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone</p>
<p>I was so lost in AP Bio.. so LOST! But yes a week before the test I read over an AP Bio review book and I found the ecology part really interesting (in fact we never went over ecology in class!). So when I take the exam I am pretty cluesless about everything excpet for the little ecology that I learned that weekend. So the essay part of the exam was really difficult.. so I answered something like 2 essays out of 5... and I got a 3 on the test! So I'm guessing I did really well for the mulpitble choice section of the exam.</p>
<p>i "read" (more like skimmed) the princeton review ap chem book the night before and I got a 5.</p>
<p>This isn't really cramming but here are some stories from last year:</p>
<p>AP Chem - I show up to the test a bit late because I wasn't sure exactly what time I was supposed to get there. Not a big problem, I just have to rush through the bubbling of names/ss#/and the rest of that crap. I didn't prep at all for this test, but who cares? I had already studied enough for the national chemistry olympiad. This test was going to be a breeze, right? Well, turns out the multiple choice section was pretty simple and I was pretty confident. During the free response section, something went wrong. No, it wasn't the test, it was me. My bowels were not cooperating and I REALLY had to go take a dump. So, I rase my hand and my proctor lets me go. I don't even bother looking at the time and I immediately run upstairs and just let nature take it's toll on me. Maybe it was something I ate that morning or the night before, but I think I was in there for a good 20 minutes. I run back, thinking I was screwed. Miraculously, 30 mins were still left! I blaze through the rest of the free responses, and make some random guesses on those "write the reaction" problems because nobody knows how the hell to do some of those. Spent the last 15 mins of the AP test recuperating from the dump that I took and daydreaming. Good times.</p>
<p>I'll post my APUSH - Fire Alarm story later</p>
<p>...wow. What'd you get?</p>
<p>did NO programming at all throughout the year. Slept in that class and played video games on the computer,and finding ways to hack the school's computer</p>
<p>then, studied 1 night before (AP Computers science), and got a 4.
oh, and i didnt know there was so much stuff on case study either</p>
<p>I read about your APUSH fire alarm story from last year.</p>
<p>what fire alarm story?</p>
<p>Haha - this is a funny thread.</p>
<p>Humor has it that this one student three years ago (senior at that time) signed up for BC Calc as a self-study (we have AB at my school, but if you want to do BC you have to do it yourself). So he got all the materials from his math teacher and, supposedly, skipped school the day before the test and crammed all day BC material - and he got a 5. He's at Cornell now! lol</p>
<p>"I flat out didn't study for the APUSH and got a 5
For the Euro I was still studying under my desk in math the period beforehand and got a 5. I also answered one of the essay questions entirely using information I remembered from my freshman world history class (we hadn't covered that far back in Euro). I also included the Dixie Chicks in my DBQ on WWI Germany."</p>
<p>does that mean you worked hard throughout the year for your APUS course? cuz if you flat out never studied, it would be impossible. for the APEURO you say you were "still studying under my desk". does this mean that's all the studying you did for the test or does it mean you were studying your ass off weeks before and still was the last few minutes before the exam? </p>
<p>your seem to just tell half the story to make your "story" sound more amazing.</p>