<p>whats the best ap euro review book for kids that want to get a 5 and nothign less, i want to hear mainly from ppl who have gotten 5s in the past or believe they could have, but if u hvnt taken it yet and knwo what ur talkin about thas cool too</p>
<p>pricnetons?rea?barrons? somebody tell me</p>
<p>bump this baby up to the front of the line if you know what i mean</p>
<p>I was looking around too and found that Modern European History by Birdsall Viault was THE BEST study guide ever. Just a brief note: Halway through the year, I can honestly say I knew NOTHING about European History and realized that I better do something to prepare for the test. Every review I read basically said that this book--and this book alone--got them a 5 on the test. It's a nice sized book, maybe 500 pages or so, but it makes everything so EASY to understand and link together. I'm sure that I will get a 4 on the test at least (not hundred percent confident about the 5 because of my own laziness). I know a hundred times more history than I did before, even after reading just the first twenty pages or so. I got a 5 on AP US History so I do konw more or less what goes down on these AP History tests :-)</p>
<p>I took Euro my sophomore year and it was my first AP exam, so I only made a 4. I could easily make a 5 now but I didn't know the techniques etc... and it was my teachers first year.</p>
<p>I can't say enough about Modern European History by Viault. AWESOME book. I also think I used the Arco study guide. I let someone in it now have it so I'm not sure what it was.</p>
<p>I used the Princeton Review and got a 4, and that was without my teacher really finishing the twentieth century (we went through it ridiculously fast). I had "Modern European History" by Viault all year long, but only realized the week before the exam how helpful it is. I'm positive I would have been able to get a 5 if I had used this to cram instead...</p>
<p>I took it my sophomore year. It was the first AP I'd taken and I swung a 5 on it. I threw the dixie chicks in my essay too. I figured they belonged in a question about Germany in WWI. To be honest it was prob my teacher that had the biggest impact. It wasn't an AP course, I didn't study out of a pre-set book. We just knew European History cold, at least I did by that point.</p>
<p>I also hit a 5 on the US Hist the next year, although that was a legit AP course (but I didn't study for that one)</p>
<p>On the test though, expect oddball questions. We were asked what architectural style Versailles was built in, and what some odd sculpture represented (totally abstract, never seen it before. Had it been free-response instead of multiple choice I would've written "The total lack of merit of this question")</p>
<p>My teacher only taught concepts, and Euro was my first AP ever, which was in my Sophomore year. We pretty much stopped at WWII. I read a bit of the Princeton Review right before the test (day before). I ended up getting a 4. Had my teacher taught the class like a regular history class, going page by page in the book, I would have most likely gotten a 5. European History did not cover too much information, which made it quite easy.</p>
<p>My teacher was pretty impressive, I can tell you more about what lead up to WWI than most college professors I'd think (history profs excluded of course). At one point I even read the original draft of Germany's military strategy for taking out France and Russia (translated of course, but the actual source material of Schlieffen's speech)</p>
<p>I used Princeton Review. It's a short review book (120 pgs) so I'd say read it more than once, although I only read it once & got a 5. </p>
<p>What I tell all the kids taking it is the DBQ will make or break your score. You can have no idea whats going on & still get a 9 on the DBQ...that's where it matters</p>
<p>But PR worked for me. =)</p>
<p>I'm using pr. It's a bit easier than the real thing, but I'll be happy with a 4 :) What is your dbq advice? I don't really trust my teacher in this arena</p>
<p>My teacher is terrible, he repeatedly tells us that you don't need outside information for DBQs, therefore we don't need to do practice ones (so not true)
He is also obsessed with military history, so he spends a lot of time on that, and there definitely isn't stuff about battle formations on the test...grr.</p>
<p>my teacher says you don't need outside info either...but we did a practice from an actual test and it said pretty clearly that would be advisable</p>
<p>There's a set way to write AP Euro DBQ's...My teacher told me that you have to have a certain number of POVs, and other different types of citations. Don't need that much outside info. I don't remember using any; but last year's DBQ was on poor people (?).</p>
<p>Use REA. That's the best study guide for the AP Histories, although I used Barron's for World History (incredibly boring!) and PR for Euro (I knew a lot from World, so didn't study that much at all). Got 5s on both, but I love history, so it depends on how much you already know about it. </p>
<p>Take a bunch of practice tests; familiarize yourself with how to take to the test, speed, time, etc. Literally, sit in front of a book/computer/etc. the ENTIRE day and just do practice tests, and read up on stuff you don't know.
Treat it like an immersion program. </p>
<p>On the last day, draw up a list of the most important facts in a mini-timeline - you may not need to know exact dates, but you need to have a sense of the big picture - that's what they're testing for - and how events relate to each other. Good dates include Luther's 95 Theses, end of the Religious Wars, 100 yr. War, WWI, WWII, etc. Very basic.</p>
<p>Good luck! (and P.S. Don't worry about battles, military tactics...worry about the cause/effect of each war was and ur set)</p>
<p>I don't remember all of the requirements exactly, but the DBQs are the most important part. They are, of course, graded on the 0-9 scale; however, the criteria goes up to 6 and you must meet all six points in order to get any of the additional 3 points (if my memory serves correct, these six are thesis statement, on topic, use a majority of documents, anylise bias/point of view [at least three documents], understanding of documents (can't misinterpret more than 1), and 3+ groups of documents) The remaining 3 points are probably free points if you qualify in the other six without having to meet them deliberately (ie you put them in when you write anyway) otherwise they are awarded for going further (ie use more documents, insightful, bringing in outside info, etc)</p>
<p>The multiple choice is pretty much multiple choice, if you get them all correct and just rewrite the prompt for the essays you will pass, but I'd say just be sure you know about 2/3 of the multiple choice and do good on the essays.</p>
<p>As for studying, if you can get old tests to practice with that would probably be best as you will be able to see what you don't know and you can study with what you already have instead of buying a book. But if you still want/need a book, the above recomendations are probably good, although I have never used one, but I personally liked A History of the Modern World by Palmer and The Western Heritage, Volume II: Since 1648 by Kagan (both go for about 75-100 dollars and are about a 1000 pages so they probably aren't good for last minute preperations, but Kagan is certainly interesting - it is banned in my state due to "sexual content")</p>
<p>How many essays did you write altogether? I've been doing littlemore than uhh... textbook flipping but am thinking about one essay/day considering each should only take 1 hour anyways, should free me from writer's block...</p>
<p>You write 3 on the actual test (or atleast you should, but you technically don't have to).</p>
<p>In class, however, I believe I have written somewhere on the order of a hundred. Our teacher gives us a "journal" questions that we are suppose to write and collectively count as a test grade and are essentially FRQs. We have probably written close to fifty of those. Then, we have done somewhere around 15-20 DBQs that have been thoroughly critiqued. Apart form that, we usually have essays that accompany tests and then write Free Response Questions (FRQs) once every week or two.</p>
<p>I would suggest practicing if you can, they don't have to be graded or critiqued if you do not want them to be be (though it is probably beneficial if they were). If nothing else, you should write enough that you are confortable writing them. You can search for them on the internet (search for Euro Hist FRQ for general essays and Euro hist DBQ for the document based essays). This site, <a href="http://www.marshfield.k12.wi.us/socsci/eurohome.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.marshfield.k12.wi.us/socsci/eurohome.htm</a>, is a good resource. The notes are good if you have the book they correspond to and many of the section DG have questions that you can answer as if they were an FRQ.</p>
<p>wow, jlagrone, that's a great site! thanks for sharing it with us. :)</p>
<p>i have the modern european history by viault, and have read it once. how many times would you suggest one to read this book, in order to do well on the exam? i'm shooting for a 4 or a 5...</p>
<p>mc is the easy part for me, I have an uncanny memory and I remember all kinds of things that surprise other people, so I'm not as worried about mc. The DBQ will bring me down, and I just know it. (what is pov?)</p>
<p>I was the only person in my class who got a 5. My teacher was very good, but i was a sophomore then and not very efficient with reading and stuff. i studied the pr book first, for a quick summary, then i read viault, underlining and stuff. and my teacher had a few reviews at school in the mornings. also, i took a few tests from the REA book and reviewed the wrong answers. and i did several essay questions and DBQs. i studied about two weeks in advance for the test.</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the book by viault, but it seems to great based on other comments on this site, so I would probably say you should read it atleast once or until you have a good understanding of the content. While it is important to know some dates and events for test, I think books serve to better your understanding of events and why they happened (you'll see patterns - economic problems, class conflicts, etc) and if you are able to get a basic understanding of why things happen, you should be able to make a good judgement on what may or should have happened if an event you are unfamiliar with. For the events and dates, timelines and brief summaries are better - you can either make your own as you read (its hard to do with some books because they jump around alot), find one of many on the internet (just make sure its accurate), or many of the study guides you can buy have them.</p>
<p>POV is point of view. In the documents given (usually 10-12) the is aditional information given (usually the author, date, and author's position, but it varies) from this information, you can conclude that some documents are inherently biased (say a document was wriiten or spoken by a noble and it refers to the great the lives of a serfs is). Likewise, you can conclude that some are sarcastic (I recently saw one with a woman saying how great here rights were in a period when she had none). There are several other conclusions you can draw depending on the circumstances, but I find that those two are the most common.</p>