AP Euro

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So, I'm taking my first AP course (sophomore), and the pressure is getting to me. I'm managing a 94% with the first quarter coming to an end a week from today, but I feel like the tests will only get harder from here on out (with the amount of people, places, etc. to memorize becoming larger). Did any of you who have taken the class have any strategies on how to remember certain people? Specifically rulers whos names are very similar, for example: Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV.</p>

<p>Also, my class is run as close to a college setting as possible (walk in, get lectured for an hour, repeat until the test is taken), with some projects sprinkled in. I've been taking some pretty detailed notes, forgot the format's specific name but it looks like:
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, and do you think this is sufficient for preparing for the AP Exam?</p>

<p>We use the textbook titled "The Western Heritage from 1300", which is what our teacher bases the day's notes from. I was wondering if I should buy a AP Study book? My teacher has a 2004 set, and they seemed a lot easier to retain the information, because our textbook was written by College grads. Any help is appreciated, also discussion about the topic is welcomed :)</p>

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<p>it posted it 3 times? delete this please</p>

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<p>Go get a life.</p>

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<p>I took the class last year and got a 5 on the exam. I guess the only way to distinguish between people is really just learn what each is associated with. You don’t have to remember the specific time period, just a general understanding of the chronological order of their rule and in particular events occuring during those eras. In example, Louis XIV repealing the Edict of Nantes and building Versailles and Louis XVI as the king during the French Revolution. </p>

<p>Notes are helpful for some. For me personally, last year in our class we had about 20 pages of textbook reading a night and I couldn’t handle taking notes because I often somehow ended up with 10-15 pages since every detail seems so important. :stuck_out_tongue: What is agreed as the consensus by the rest of us here at CC is to use Modern European History, forget the author but you should be able to google it, as a study tool/sort of extra reading. To be honest I never read the whole thing cover to cover, I felt some parts were a bit excessive and in the end included things that were not on the exam, but in terms of understanding concepts I can see how reading it would be beneficial. I also used the PR review book and I think the ultimate helper for me near exam-time was the REA Crash Course book (there’s some review of it in the AP threads that I’m too lazy to link to at the moment, but it’s very succinct and I recognized a lot of the questions from last year’s exam from that book). I mostly memorized like everything from the REA book the week before the test, but it paid off. xD</p>

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<p>you posted this so many times</p>

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<p>I honestly don’t know why it posted it three times. After it did, CC started running slow, and then the site wouldn’t even come up, with other sites working perfectly. No need to be so harsh about it, when it wasn’t even my fault.</p>

<p>P.S. Thanks to whoever deleted the other 2, I tried to post to delete them, but it wouldn’t even let me post replies.</p>

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<p>^You broke CC.</p>

<p>And I suggest making a list for each time period of important people, events, things (like books/art) and concepts (like real politik, baroque art) and running over them until you remember them. You should also be able to explain cause and effect when possible/applicable</p>

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<p>^I feel like Mark Zuckerberg when he crashed Harvard’s system…but yeah my teacher keeps telling us about the whole cause/effect concept needing to be grasped.</p>