<p>basic political theories and structure? Oh my…</p>
<p>So, uhhh. What’s everyone been up to? I just started to study. I’m doing China right now, but since this is my first read-through I haven’t gone into much detail. </p>
<p>The test is May 10th in the afternoon, for those of you who haven’t checked/are too lazy to. </p>
<p>Anybody have questions/comments on anything?</p>
<p>Also, anybody who actually has a class, and is not self-studying, what are you doing right now/did if it was a one semester class?</p>
<p>I am independent studying and using the What You Need to Know and Ethel Woods’ too. I also had a school-issued textbook but it was really dense and very unhelpful.</p>
<p>I was wondering how much current events is everyone incorporating? I get UN Wire briefs (e-mail newsletters that are a collection of summaries and links to articles about international events) and am reading all articles that relate to the six countries, but is that enough?</p>
<p>i’m taking the course through Virtual Virginia so i’ll be joining you guys in May</p>
<p>How is everybody doing? </p>
<p>I finished with one read through of Ethel Woods, about to start on the second, perhaps try some practice questions. </p>
<p>Concentrating on my other APs though =/.</p>
<p>Holy crap. I was the one who made this thread and I JUST started reading, like literally. Im on the intro of Ethel’s book. I’m so stupid. How long did it take for your read-throughs?</p>
<p>As a student who took the AP Comp Gov exam last year, I can assure you all that if you studied Ethel Wood and feel confident about the information in that book, you will do just fine. 
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<p>Ethel Wood’s guide is all you need to secure a 5.</p>
<p>Hi again everyone, just finished Wood’s book the other day, but haven’t done any of the full practice tests in it yet. Took me about 2 1/2 weeks, but I wasn’t reading every day, and I was taking quite a lot of notes.</p>
<p>I’m bumping this</p>
<p>I too am self-studying just from the Ethel Wood book. To review, I was going to write out a giant poster with a huge table on it with all the countries and all the info we need to know</p>
<p>Hey guys, does any of you have any full length practice exams? I can’t seem to be able to find any…</p>
<p>(except for the ones in the Ethel Wood book, I mean)</p>
<p>I’m in a class.</p>
<p>Here as some things you guys should cover.</p>
<p>The United Kingdom:
- Parties & Social Class
- Parliament (Know the system)
- Law in England (Common Law, Judicial Review)
- Intergeneration within the EU. (How it effects Soveriegnity)
- AV Voting System. It recently got rejected and the Liberal Democrats, a minority currently won’t be seeing and positive outcomes as it lost a lot of it’s constituencies.
- Devolution. Welsh Parliament. Scottish Parliament.</p>
<p>Russia:
- Autocratic History and why the Slav’s don’t seem to mind.
- Cult of Personality around Leaders (Lenin-Stalin-Putin)
- Economy (Privatized and now seeing growth: Formula 1 teams, High-Tech Universities)
- Where will it go Liberal Democracy or Illiberal Democracy?
- Putin has gripped onto the Federation, allowing himself to fire leaders of the regions.
- Free Media (or lack of)
- The Changes he has made to electoral system. 7% cut off vote for the Duma, highest in Europe and it favors his party, United Russia. </p>
<p>Alright, I’m gonna practice my essays right now If you guys want some more highlights on what to study ask up, exam is coming soon.</p>
<p>gonna study it this weekend. wooo</p>
<p>Hey,
If anyone has ANY practice exams, can they PLEASE send them? I’m self-studying the exam and I’m learning 60% of it this weekend, today and tomorrow.</p>
<p>Whats is Russia’s Electoral system? PR or FPTP?</p>
<p>Russia’s Duma is decided by PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. Hey, would you happen to have any useful materials for the exam, especially audit/past exams?</p>
<p>I just started Russia today…omg im done.</p>
<p>Haha… I just started GB last night. This is terrible…</p>
<p>I’m working on my 4th country right now. How many have you guys done? I still have 2 complete ones to get done after…</p>
<p>I’ve done all of them, I can correctly answer all the question related to why and how their government forms, but when it comes to questions such as … . “What commonalities do the Representatives and Senators of Nigeria have?” I completely blank out.</p>
<p>If anyone want’s question answers feel free to do so.</p>
<p>What’s the difference between state and neo-coporatism?</p>
<p>Russia had a mixture of prop. And fptp representation but eliminated prop. In 2006 or 2007.</p>
<p>I just took the practice exam and it was impossible, lol. I haven’t reviewed the countries yet, so hopefully I’ll do better Tuesday.</p>