<p>yo guys! alright I need some advice. uh my APUSh is on friday and I realized that I havent really started to prepare for it. I have payed attention for most of the year and have finished pretty much finished the course. I bought the REA book and am going to use that to review for it. Im going to try to study for like 6-7 hours Monday- Thursday.
Do you guys think Ill be in decent shape to get a 4 or5? Any tips, advice or am i just screwed?lol</p>
<p>Take a practice exam first. Your review book should have two in there. If you do fairly well, then your good.
Please work on your essay! They do not want generalizations in your essay. You need to be able to dish out facts. That is what will get a 7 or higher on the essay portion.
Make sure you know how to do a DBQ.</p>
<p>Since I don’t have a review book, I’ve just been going over the time periods that I am most weak in.</p>
<p>take this practice exam, it will tell you lots of information:</p>
<p>[AP</a> US History Practice Test 1](<a href=“http://www.apexamreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:practice-exam&catid=8:practice-exams&Itemid=22]AP”>http://www.apexamreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:practice-exam&catid=8:practice-exams&Itemid=22)</p>
<p>Listen to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire. That’s how I prepped for 50s-70s. xD</p>
<p>killer2021- Is that practice exam very good? I just took it in like 20 minutes and got a 5 (61/80)</p>
<p>I took it last year and got a 5. My thoughts:</p>
<p>I honestly didn’t start studying for it until the Monday before the test (meaning, today). I stayed home one day and read this small little review booklet that was much more detailed than my Barron’s book. I used that to go over everything. I then took every single practice multiple choice test my Barron’s book came with, even the ones on the accompanying CD. I took practice tests up until 9PM the night before the test. That made me much more comfortable with the type of questions they ask and with timing myself as well. I was lucky in that my practice tests ended up being very similar to the real deal, which isn’t always the case with review books. </p>
<p>Basically, be familiar with everything. You DON’T have to know every detail of a bunch of events and whatnot to get a five (I honestly knew little about like 40 years of American History after the Civil War), you just need to be familiar enough with everything so that you can make correct inferences and be able to eliminate wrong choices. Also, be able to connect things together; the test is as much about relationships between things as much as it is about cold facts and definitions. </p>
<p>And lastly, on your essays, don’t just regurgitate what you know about the topic at hand. Form your own opinion, analyze the history, and then back it up with facts. Again, it’s not about dishing out what you learned, but about how you use it to support an argument.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m taking it on Friday. I talked to my brother who got like a perfect score, and he said the main thing is to have a grasp of the threads, and not the minutia. Like lately they’ve been trying to include more stuff on women’s history, so if you study that, it’s bound to come up. look for themes (minorites etc.)</p>
<p>I am actually scared about this test as well.
As soon as I finish studying for AP Stat I will read through my review guide a few times…</p>
<p>Take a practice test and see which era you do not know as well as the others</p>