<p>Im a sophomore and i really want to do well on the ap euro exam! right now im up to the end of napoleonic era, and i feel that my teacher zoomed through the years from renaissance to now... So do u think i should go over everything by myself? basically reading about 500 pgs of a college book on euro?</p>
<p>It depends on how good you are at history really.</p>
<p>I didn't think the test was too difficult, and I just used the princeton review AP book.</p>
<p>Focus on doing well on the DBQ. Thats my advice.</p>
<p>hmm im bad wit DBQ/Essays :'(((( its over for meeeee</p>
<p>get the cliffsnotes ap euro book</p>
<p>that book is amazing, and it offers a nice review of what happened, time lines, and important people with bios and descriptions of major events and themes etc.</p>
<p>dont' re-read everything. if you took notes on reading, keep going over those. if there's a section you feel particularly fuzzy about, re-read it. and use review sources (cliffsnotes book being an example) to brush up on stuff that you feel you didn't spend enough time on.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel better, my school does the class in one semester (which is why I didn't take it) thus rushing through everything and pleanty of people get 5's.</p>
<p>"So do u think i should go over everything by myself? basically reading about 500 pgs of a college book on euro?"</p>
<p>I tried to do that last year because I knew my teacher wasn't going to finish the course. I'm not sure about your book, but our book just way too long and boring (I didn't like the way it split up sub-sections, either) for that to be beneficial to me.</p>
<p>My suggestions are:</p>
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<li>Get "Modern European History" by Viault and continue to read through the book until the AP test. A lot of stuff in there you can skip through (or just peruse), but there's also a lot of good information, and it will give you a good timeline of everything. My one regret with AP Euro was that I did not utilize that book. I realized in late-April/early-May (the test having been May 7) how helpful it would have been to go through that book a few times. I got a 4 on the AP test, but I'm confident that I would have had an easy 5 if I had read through the book at least once or twice.</li>
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<p>Also, REA has a very concise cram book along with a plethora of questions that are much more difficult than the ones you'll find on the AP test. I found Princeton Review's cram book pretty good for just a straight review, too -- not much detail, but enough to remind you of certain important situations that are expected to be on the AP test.</p>
<p>well i use " the western heritage " 7th edition, by hardvard/yale professors... i guess ill read through REA... ne1 know if the barrons review is good? i use it and im not sure if its as good as others... ty</p>
<p>All we do is read the chapters in A History of Western Society and complete the study guide that goes along with the textbook. Once we have handwritten the study guide, we type it up...repetition works. Since doing this, we went from a 2% pass rate to a 67% pass rate in a year. We don't use any particular test prep books, but we do work on DBQs a lot.</p>