<p>Hey
I am taking Ap euro in school this year, and im not doing that great. I dont understand how people can get 97's in this class. It really hard, and I want to go to a great school, but I think that these ap classes are gonna bring my GPA down.
Please give me some advice for quizzes/reading/tests, etc.
And maybe some stuff like book/internet sources?
I heard that AP euro is the hardest, and it goes easier from there...should i take APUSH?
and how hard is AP 11 language?
THANKS SO MUCH!!!</p>
<p>Study. It sounds stupid, but AP Euro and USH are actually very easy, it’s almost a direct correlation between how much work you do and what grade you get (versus say a science course where you could not work and get 100 or work really hard and get a 90).</p>
<p>My teachers keep telling us to not reread the textbook, but my friends and I tried that and I’ve been averaging 98s on APUSH tests (which is way above class average)(on multiple choice at least) so I guess it does kind of work.</p>
<p>APUSH sucked for me lol. I studied myself into exhaustion, and still managed only a high B+ / low A (which was at least in the top bracket of the class). Lot’s of rereading, note taking, and memorization. Timelines and charts, rewritten and more organized notes, and two separate AP prep books weren’t enough to bring my grade up.</p>
<p>I ended up with a 5 though, and with relative ease. So maybe your teacher is making your class more difficult so that you’ll be adequately prepared for the exam.</p>
<p>Be a good girlie and take your AP histories. If you never hear about imperialism or the Reconstruction Era again, the classes still wouldn’t be for naught because all of those essays, all of those tricky SR questions, would have made you a better student and a better critical thinker. I drowned in WHAP because I didn’t have the time management skills or desire to tackle all of the coursework. Now that I’m in APUSH, I still don’t like history, but I have the advantage of knowing what else was going on in the world while the Americans squabbled money or slavery.
Of the AP exams, Language has the lowest instance of 5s. My major qualm with the class is that it oftentimes feels like a companion course to my APUSH class. Case in point: in history we were doing presentations on reformers during the Jacksonian Era and we heard from Elizabeth Stanton. In English the next day, we dissected her Declaration of Sentiments.
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<p>I have a question…</p>
<p>The college I want to attend doesn’t accept AP credit (it is in another country). I will still take AP classes at my school, but should I self study AP test even if credit isn’t offered? If I self study, I would take ~17 AP’s total, if I just take AP through classes I’ll take around 8. I know taking AP’s would show that you go above and beyond, but I do lots of stuff outside of school that can show I’m really dedicated.</p>
<p>Any thought? thanks!</p>
<p>APUS varies substantially from teacher to teacher…some of my friends with teacher A find it to be a relatively easy, enjoyable experience, however I have teacher B who is notorious for giving busy work and focusing on irrelevant details. We actually got asked on a quiz “name the president on page blahblah who is second from the left and holding his finger up in the air.” I actually think I would have found an academic US History course more worthwhile because we would have analyzed information instead of regurgitating minutiae. However, I doubt this is typical of the AP US experience. Ask your guidance counselor or students at your school what is the testing style and grading policies of your AP US teacher. The best part about AP US is that you can teach it to yourself if your teacher is doing a bad job…especially if your teacher teaches to the book like mine. If you’re not good with staying on top of reading, you’ll find AP US to be difficult. Listening to lectures is not enough to get a good grade. Between my teacher’s AP US classes, there was only five A’s. You have to analyze every quote, statistic, and picture to do well. Grades often aren’t a reflection of natural history ability but the time you can put into it. You only have to really analyze for essays and Document Based Questions, most of it is memorization…this can be a good or bad thing based on what you prefer. Essentially, AP US is a scientific approach to history. It is tedious. On a personal level, I did not find it to be worthwhile, however it did boost my GPA.</p>