<p>do we have to memorize all these dates for APUSH??</p>
<p>no. not usually</p>
<p>Nope. You do sometimes need to know the order of events though.</p>
<p>You should know the time-era's and the president/general ideological consensus of the nation at that point.</p>
<p>But really, if you want a 5 on the AP US History test you need to quote as much Marx as you can. Be sure to glorify any labor leader, and when I mean glorify I mean turn the story into like a true passionate struggle, you could bassically quote Zinn if you wanted. I did this on both my AP US History which I got a 5 and my AP English Language in which I didn't take the class and got a 3.</p>
<p>nah, you don't have to memorize all the dates, though they do help, and i got a 5 without doing any of what the poster above me did.</p>
<p>Dude a 3 isnt that good, I got a 5 on US and a 3 on English comp without mentioning labor leaders at all...</p>
<p>Are there any AP tests that are notorious for being difficult (hard to get a 4 or 5) or any that are the complete opposite?</p>
<p>At my school, the language tests are pretty notorious. For a long time, the only people I ever knew to have gotten a 4 or 5 on any language test were native speakers. But I think this is mainly bad teaching; I recently met someone from another school who got a 5 on Spanish, seemingly without much study. But then, she had spent some time in South America, speaking it.</p>
<p>I'm not sure the Latin Literature tests (Lit and Vergil) are as hard as the foreign language tests, because many people get 5s on Lit at my school (I think this is mainly because our other language teacher are terrible, so all the best students choose Latin), but I can say from experience that the amount of work necessary to learn the syllabus is immense, though the exam isn't too difficult if you know the syllabus front and back.</p>
<p>As for notoriously easy tests, the easiest offered at my school is Stat, by a mile. Anyone with half a brain and one weekend to read a study book seems to 4/5 this one. But we only offer "mainstream" AP classes (History, Math, English, Language, Chemistry) and I've heard many minor AP tests, such as Psychology, are even easier.</p>
<p>About the original thread- memorization is pretty insignificant in US History. Think mainly about trends, not individual events. As mentioned, however, knowing general dates is good because it helps you put things in order. What I genearlly did is, as I read important dates in the text or my notes, I would say the date to myself a couple times so I at least retain the approximate time, but it's not worth memorizing exactly. It might impress the graders, but it might also backfire and make it look like you're covering for a lack of real knowledge on the topic.</p>
<p>thanks, thats a relief</p>
<p>another CCer was nice enough to post a website with all the condensed notes of each chapter of APUSH. I'm gonna self study that and buy the prep book-REA or PR...</p>