<p>Today one of our counselors came into our AP classes telling us the days to pay the fees and all that stuff about the AP Tests. So in my AP Gov't and Politics class he said that we can take both classes for the price of one. So I thought that was cool and I am thinking about taking both but I don't really know anything about the Comparative test, so I don't think that I am going to do very well but maybe by some freak accident (like they screw up and mix my scores with another student) I would actually get a good score. So anyone out there that can tell me about the Comparative test? Is it really difficult especially since I have not really studied anything about the governments of the countries that we are questioned on. I think I can do all right on the Soviet Union/ Russia... but even that is very limited knowledge. Also I am in AP English Lit but I don't think that I am going to do very well on that test because I am not very good at interpreting literature, so I was thinking about taking the Language test. What is on that test? Is it like the SAT II Writing? If so what do you think those SATII scores would convert to on the AP English Language?</p>
<p>yeah I'm taking both AP gov't classes and of what I have seen and learned, the comparative stuff is much harder than the US stuff. This is because the US stuff is generally common knowledge to most people while most people couldn't even point where some of the countries are on the map. For Comparative, you need to know Britain, France, China, Russia, and either one of the developing countries of Nigeria, India, Mexico. You need to know these countries pretty damn well. First you need to understand their histories, which learning hundreds of years for several countries is not easy. You also need to know key leaders and key generalizations and key terms (they love seeing major terms on the test) in those histories. You also need to be able to compare these countries to each other, which at times can be easy but sometimes is hard. My suggestion: if you do not know anything about these countries now, then don't take the test. If you are willing to learn about these countries even though you will get senioritis (I'm assuming you are a senior) and it would occupy your time, I guess you should try. But why bother especially when you will be already tired after taking the US gov't stuff earlier in the day.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. After reading your reply I think that I am not going to take the Comparative Test. I really don't want to burn myself out seeing that I have both Econ tests the next day.</p>
<p>This is a great topic... SOMEBODY PLEASE REPLY TO MY QUESTION ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST!</p>