AP US Gov't - Self Study Help!

Test Preparation
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<p>Hi!</p>

<p>I'm self-studying (self-cramming is more like it...) for the AP US Gov't test. I was using Barron's but its starting to seem ridiculously packed with Supreme Court cases, etc.</p>

<p>Is anyone using Barron's? What do you think is the best book to get enough in depth to not use a textbook but not to over-cram?</p>

<p>Also, specifically, how many Supreme Court cases do we need to know and in how much detail? I was making index cards of cases and already have over 50!!! And they're really random too... Meanwhile I looked through Kaplan and it doesn't look like there are more than 10 in the entire book!</p>

<p>Help please I'm going nuts (I'm also self-studying human geography and reviewing for micro/macro/statistics so I'm in way over my head - and guess what? My acceptance to the London School of Economics is conditional on getting 55544 this May!!!)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Brittany</p>

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<p>Use PR. Its awesome!!</p>

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<p>Thanks cryptic_fate - have you used it before or are you using it now?</p>

<p>And anybody know about supreme court cases we need to memorize for the test?</p>

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<p>I am using it now. But i have read threads before about people reding PR and getting 70% of the questions right (ie. 5). I think PR covers all the topics you need to know for the exam.</p>

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<p>Awesome, thanks!</p>

<p>Supreme court cases anyone? Are there a lot we need to know besides the obvious ones? (Plessy v Ferguson, Brown v Bd of Education, etc.)</p>

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<p>bump....</p>

<p>Supreme court cases anyone?</p>

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<p>I like PR's book as well... But I don't know how good it actually is yet.</p>

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<p>Thanks - thats two votes for PR!</p>

<p>Anyone bothering to memorize tons of supreme court cases? Barron's has a good 50-100 of them in there - I'm hoping we don't have to know all of them...?</p>

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<p>Add another vote for PR. If you know that book cold, you'll do very well on the exam.</p>

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<p>As for court cases, just memorize the important ones (Brown vs. BOE, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Adarand vs. Pena, Roe vs. Wade, Gideon vs. Wrainwright, Griswold vs. Connecticut, Miranda vs. Arizona, Marbury vs. Madison, Schneck vs. United States, CA vs. Bakke, Mapp vs. Ohio, New York Times vs. U.S., New York Times vs. Sullivan, McCullough vs. MD). Well, at least those seem to be the most important ones listed in my PR book from two years ago. Granted, there's more cases. But those should provide you with a good foundation.</p>

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<p>when I took it (last year)there was a lot on Vietnam ....
so maybe there wont be much on that this year for those of you who are taking it</p>

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<p>KNOW the court cases. the important ones.</p>

<p>dont use the barrons court cases tho-coz they give u the entire history of court cases lol</p>

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<p>wait. .... sry I was taking about the US History Exam</p>

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<p>what was the DBQ on?</p>