@Ngzk07 @bookwoof My school does that except the first year is not an AP class it’s an honors class
@bookwoof Yeah and I’m glad they do. Makes it so much easier to go over history slowly instead of trying to rush and not finish before May.
That is kinda weird @Ngzk07. Do you get an AP weight both years?
@Ngzk07 so does the sophomore class do like pre-1491 to 1850 and then the actual ap class just cover then to now? That actually doesn’t seem like it’d help, there’d be so much information to forget
At my school, we just go straight to APUSH, but we cover the first 8 chapters over the summer by ourselves.
@APScholar18 Nope only the Junior class got weighted as an AP.
@bookwoof Yep we go from a year before Columbus until the Gilded Age, and the summer homework we had to watch a History channel series and take notes on it. For me it didn’t feel like I forgot everything because the facts were really forced onto us lol. Pop quizzes, review tests, dbq/frq days and memorizing the president’s dates & the major events during their presidency. >_< We sometimes got yelled at for how poorly we did on the quizzes but I could see why we got scolded.
We do the first 8 chapters as well over the summer. Finished the Gilded Age by christmas and the course 3 days before the exam.
I wonder when apush will be separated into 2 courses
I didn’t realize there was that much to cover. It’s not split up at my school and I think we managed to cover enough in a semester’s time.
For most students, I don’t see the need to split it.
We started the material the second day of school and finished 2 weeks prior to the AP exam. We all felt confident about it. I don’t feel there’s a need to split it.
@skieurope In a couple of decades it may need to be LOL.
@Gatortristan If European History or World History can be crammed into one year, so can USH 
@letmeseetheworld yeah, I know apish is a lot of information, but it really isn’t 2 years worth of information. 2 years just seems kinda redundant
It’s on the line of gotta go really fast for one year, but extremely slow for two years
Indians prior to 1492 was a perfectly valid question to ask on the exam. The APUSH course description (http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf) explicitly lists 1491 as the starting year for Period 1. The document also states: “These periods, from pre-Columbian contacts in North America (represented symbolically by the date 1491) to the present, provide a temporal framework for the course.”
@tooeasy but they also said that that period would only be 5% of the exam. That short answer alone was 5% of the exam. Any multiple choice question within that period disrupts the balance.
It my state, it is a requirement for students to have two years of ush, that is why apush is split.
@baller55 The course description only states 5% as the ‘approximate percentage’ of the exam, for the time period prior to 1607. A couple questions in the MC on Indians before 1607 would still be reasonable, even with the the short answer.
@tooeasy ehh I guess you’re right but like I’m sure 1 or 2 passages were prior to 1607, meaning 3-7 questions; regardless, they had a reason to not publish that short answer and I think that’s why. I don’t see why else