I don’t know what to do. I haven’t passed one of my reading quizzes for my AP Euro class. I currently have a C+ (79) in the class but I can’t accept that. I read every day the pages I am assigned to read which is at minimum 10 pages and I take notes and everything. I have changed how I do my notes also. I pass my tests and the actual quizzes (not reading quiz) and do good on those but my reading quizzes are 10 questions and its open-notes and I still do not pass them. I understand the concept we learn too.
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Have you met with your teacher? Do you understand what is expected for these reading quizzes? Can you get a tutor?
Is this your first AP course? It was my D’s first and there was a definitely an adjustment period.
http://www.sargenotes.com/ap-european-history.html
might help,
make google doc outline w/ roman numerals, talk to ur teacher about ur struggles
“I read every day the pages I am assigned to read which is at minimum 10 pages and I take notes and everything”
That sounds very much like my daughter’s experience with AP Euro some number of years ago. I refer to it as the most difficult A- that I have ever witnessed in my life (which definitely includes the A- that I got in graduate school – it was easier than AP Euro). The same daughter assures me that premed organic chemistry in university was harder, but that is faint praise.
I don’t know what to say other than in my limited experience AP Euro is a tough class. Speaking with your teacher might help. A tutor might help. You might see if a parent would be willing to read some of the pages to you out loud while you take notes. Try to note what is important in each section.
For me, the vast numbers of names and dates would have been very difficult. Fortunately they did not have AP Euro back when I was in high school.
Talk with your teacher and buy an AP Euro book like AP Euro Crash Course. Find someone who has taken the course before who could tutor you for a couple of hours. Sounds like you have a problem in one area, the reading quizzes. So start with your teacher.
Are the readings primary source documents (written at the time)? That can make interpreting them extra hard. D21 found it helpful to google the document to read background and analysis on it, along with reading the actual document.
Another idea would be to show the notes you take on the reading to your teacher to make sure that you are on the right track.