<p>I know someone claiming to have learned material for U.S. History from Civil War tensions to the present, with never learning any of it before, out of the Kaplan review book, in a single day. (the day before the exam) Without ever even practicing an essay or DBQ, he still got a 5. Is the Kaplan book really that amazing, or is this a joke?</p>
<p>they could be telling the truth, but i would not recommend trying out it.</p>
<p>i don't know about that particular review book, but thats definitely possibly. Last year, the weekend before ap tests i read a review book for european history with very little prior knowledge and easily got a 5</p>
<p>well has he had any experience with US History before? Last year I did no studying and just went off on what I remembered in 8th and 5th grade and got an A in the class and a 5 on the AP test.</p>
<p>yeah, i wouldn't recommend trying it.</p>
<p>Not a smart thing to do....</p>
<p>I doubt he still knows any of it. Sometimes I can do that sort of thing too. Like reading a chapter of chemistry the day of the test, and getting in the low-mid 90's. I forget everything I read about right afterwards, though.</p>
<p>But a chapter in a chem book is nothing compared to 130 years of information from an ap class. So yes, don't try to do it.</p>
<p>try it and see...:)</p>
<p>how do you know you easily got a 5 on euro?</p>
<p>I know i easily got a 5 because i was sure of every question except for 5-6 of them and i most likely guessed correctly on some of those. Then the essays just seemed abnormally easy</p>
<p>It''s possible to learn US History out of a prep book and getting a 5.</p>
<p>I read my textbook and the Princeton review AP book. I hardly ever wrote DBQs and I received a 4. Also, I got a 720 on my first subject test every taken, US History (without practice).</p>
<p>This kid is probably a really smart kid?
Or he crammed EVERYTHING for about 12+ hours the day before..
Really, as other people said, I don't recommend it.</p>
<p>absolutely, it's possible. I mean...anybody can read about 30-40 pages of material in less than a day - heck, I could read the entire Kaplan book in 24 hours if I wanted to! but the thing is...it's really not how much you can read; it's how much you can absorb and digest the material. so if the kid got a 5 after speed cramming his prep book, it should be attributed to him, not the Kaplan book. I wouldn't recommend it myself, though, unless you can learn things reallllyy quickly. then it wouldn't matter what book you used. :)</p>