APUSH Cram Thread - Last day, how are you studying?

<p>A full year comes down to this one day! How are you cramming? I'm re-reading Crash Course and taking a MC exam.</p>

<p>Crash Course/Barrons/Practice test. </p>

<p>We were taking notes up until this morning, about 1901 and the development of skyscrapers, because all of it really matters in detail. I’ve been trying to cover those last 100 years by myself effectively for weeks. I don’t think it’s gonna click tonight.</p>

<p>APUSH is the class that I’ve studied for the most. And by that, I mean I just started on Chapter 1 at lunch today. Just gonna go through Pearson’s and do some flashcards. Plus practice tests online. Gonna be a late night.</p>

<p>Ultimate Study Guide + Crash Course + anything else I have time for like movements for blacks/women/Indians</p>

<p>Reading through prep book, brushing up on key concepts/events that I need to re-familarize myself with stuff I don’t know or remember and I’ll review some notes, do some last minute reading and do a practice test at teh end of it all.</p>

<p>Princeton Review and a “Quick-n-Dirty” handout my APUSH teacher gave me. Anyone have links to online practice tests or a consolidated list of old DBQs / FRQs?</p>

<p>just going to throw this out there… you can’t cram for this.
i took this test last year and did really well in the class all year by paying attention. i never studied once all year and i was too lazy to cram for the AP national exam. after taking the test i was pretty sure i got a 2 or 3, but i got my letter and i got a 5, without studying. i think that a good indicator of how well you will do is how well you’ve done in the class at your school during the year, because that was a pretty good indicator of my friends’ scores as well. what i’m saying is, it’s probably more worth your while to BS really well on the open endeds than to cram and stress yourself out over it… good luck to all!</p>

<p>^ While this is true (I’ve maintained a 94 average without ever cracking open my textbook), when you’re only halfway through the curriculum, self-study and cramming is pretty necessary.</p>

<p>reviewing all former essay q’s (i always get 97+ on dbq’s) and skimming thru the 19th cent (esp antebellum & reconstruction periods) before 11 pm at which i will watch a fun movie for 30 min and then get 6.5 hrs of sleep :)</p>

<p>I’m planning on taking a practice test from Kaplan. Anyone know if their tests are accurate?</p>

<p>Heh heh, i’m not studying :D</p>

<p>Finish REA, review the massive list of key terms I’ve compiled, and take a released MC test. Crossing my fingers for a Jacksonian/pre-Civil War DBQ!</p>

<p>Crash Course, Read through study guide and take a Practice test. Sleep by 12, wake up at 6:30, go to school at 7:15. =)</p>

<p>Reread of crash course, a MC test, studying a massive packet about the Jacksonian Era in hopes of a DBQ on that.</p>

<p>Lol, I’m trying to read all of AMSCO in a day. Didn’t go to school. I’m currently at pg 400. It’s going to be a LONG day. But I live on the West Coast so it’s a little better.</p>

<p>Well our teacher assigns a review project due before the exam each year. It’s worked for everyone so far, as nobody that has taken his class has failed the test. It usually ends up being around 50-100 pages single spaced. His philosophy is that it’s “our review” and everyone gets a 100% unless it is late or extremely poor. It includes a Top 10/Bottom 10 Presidents list, three separate outlines of women’s/african american’s/poor and unkown history, another outline of our choice, literature summaries by time period, Top 10 Supreme Court Decisions, and 8 Continuum Lines (essentially Top 10 lists) 3 on foreign history and 5 on domestic. Right now I’m at about 75 pages and I have to do about 1/2 of the poor and unknown outline tonight.</p>

<p>ANYWAY, my studying has been this project. It’s what has worked so far, and I am acing all of our practice tests so far (70/80 on the last MC without checking over everything, which was a real AP test from a few years ago). The project helps to focus the studying and to keep everyone from cramming the night before.</p>

<p>Maybe maybe maybe finish AMSCO, CRASH COURSE!!!, online resources my teacher has posted (department review sheets), and then my own stuff if I have time…</p>

<p>I’m just rereading AMSCO. Took a practice test the other day and I got (60/80) correct. Not bad, but then again, I did make numerous mistakes throughout the MC. I think I can get it up though. Furthermore, I am reading the Jacksonian era.</p>

<p>To top it off, I will read some of the Crash Course book.</p>

<p>Hey guys do you think I should pull all-nighter today??? Is that a bad idea??</p>

<p>Unless you know absolutely nothng about USH, DON’T pull an all nighter LOL. Get some sleep!</p>