<p>I'm quite good at geography (top ten in my state Geobee without too much preparation), so I decided to take this test next May. how would I go around preparing for it? I've heard there's just a lot of vocab, so what practice books do you recommend?</p>
<p>I highly recommend the Princeton Review, the practice tests are spot on accurate with the difficulty of the real exam and the review section covers almost everything you need to know. Mind you, physical geography and human geography are hardly related but human geography is known to be an easy AP exam nonetheless.</p>
<p>I studied Barron’s the night before, it’ll give you extra info to help you get a 5, though you need a good textbook too, taking the class would help a lot too</p>
<p>My brother took AP Human Geography and he says it’s a lot of memorization which I think you can handle due to your previous success at the GeoBee. It’s a lot of information to cover. Also in my brother’s class you had to remember the world map: all the countries/states in each continent and capitals.</p>
<p>^ Do you actually have to? If so, that would be awesome! (already done)
On one of the FRQs they asked to label I think it was France, the Netherlands, and some other obvious country and I was a little bit upset by that because I was hoping AP Human Geo would be more focused towards political geography than more important things.</p>
<p>Yeah, by brother said he’s good at reading maps so this was a breeze for him, but If I had to do that, I’ll be in tears.</p>
<p>Would it be a wise decision to self-study AP Human Geo considering I already know every country, where it is on a map, and all of the world capitals, with a decent but not superb knowledge of physical/other geography? Many of the FRQs looked like they were pretty much vocab questions, and when I tried to answer them, I had no idea what most of those things were…</p>
<p>Is there a tremendous amount of vocab to learn, or would it be possible to learn everything throughout the entire school year if I passively study a couple times a week?</p>
<p>I do not believe it would be an easy self study but the exam would be quite simple if you had the class</p>
<p>I used Kaplan for HG and liked it due to the large number of practice test. HG is not rlly physicall geo and map reading its more of cultural geography such as knowing different agricultural patterns.</p>
<p>@mathrom
It will certainly help, but the test covers some more difficult (like boring) things about agriculture and urban development. (city types, how they are set up…)</p>
<p>You should look at the course description: <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>Check out the topic outline (page 10) and the sample questions after it.</p>
<p>The test is more than just political geography (capitals, country names, etc.)</p>
<p>It actually tests you on other types of geographies as well, including cultural, linguistic, and urban (and a few more). So while knowing countries is useful, you can’t take that alone into the test and expect a five. You WILL learn stuff if you study properly. </p>
<p>The vocab you can easily gain by going through a review book. It is not a hard test, especially if you are interested in the subject.</p>
<p>^ I agree. </p>
<p>@mathrom Personally, I don’t like the idea of “self-studying” but it’ll be hard to nail the subjects. It’s better from a teacher’s point of view which is better for understanding.</p>
<p>Hey PoliticalProtege, I’m in a similar boat as you. I got fourth in my state geography bee and I decided to take the test with basically no preparation (no course in school and 1 hour of review the night before the test). That being said, the test was a joke. It’s relatively easy to figure out 90% of the test through common sense, but my background through taking AP World History definitely helped a little bit. The essays are super easy as well. Overall, the test is not anything like the geography bees, but if you have a strong background in geography you should be able to easily get a 4 or 5 with very little preparation.</p>