I’ve heard APUSH is an insanely large amount of work, but that the material itself is easy. I’m wondering if this is true? Also, I want to know what to expect. I understand that each class is different depending on school and teacher, but I just want a general idea. What goes on in the class, what makes it so much work, and what kinds of examples could anyone give me about what you have to memorize in the class? I[m basically looking for any helpful information telling me what the course is made up of, why it’s so much work, etc.
The way my class had it set up was two week cycles. Week 1 would be a test monday, then lectures the rest of the week. The next monday, we would have outlines due and would spend the week reading articles from the time period. Then a test on monday. A lot of kids waited until the sunday before to do outlines or study, so that’s where the workload came from. This all depends on your school tho
My class had about 1 chapter of American Pageant per week, a test of some sort (a series of short responses or your standard multiple choice test or a short test that was APish, or a long essay), and various little quizzes almost every day over parts of the chapter.
I didn’t think it was too much work or anything absurd compared to any other classes.
A lot of it was vocab and associating American figures with their work and events to their significance. Why was First Bull Run so important? What did Abraham do before the battle that contrasted to what happened after. How does this compare to Gettysburg, etc.
1 chapter a week!!! How did you guys get through everything? Our weekly schedule looks something like this
Monday:Chapter 1
Tuesday:Quiz over chapter 1
Wednesday:Chapter 2
Thursday:Quiz over Chapter 2
Friday:Chapter 3
Then every 2 or 3 weeks we have a multiple choice test and then a day of DBQs.
Also there is a APUSH Thread if you want to talk to more people taking APUSH next year
@kassh4 thanks for letting me know - what category is it under?
@kassh4 Once you get past World War I and the Great Depression, I found that most of my AP study guides basically dropped off the content after that. World War II to Now was hardly ever covered (maybe it assumed that recent information should be common knowledge compared to the XYZ affair, etc), and I think the curriculum only officially went to Reagan, at least when I took it.
I do know there was one question about Reagan and the rebirth of conservatism after its death in the 1920’s in the AP test when I took it in a DBQ, but that was really it as far as I remember.
My APUSH class was hard, but not impossible. We had a test every other week on about 3-4 chapters. We had about 25-30 pages of reading a night (but it was quite easy to skim through quickly and make fast, useful outlines, at least for me). We also got a LOT of practice with DBQs and the short answers, which was the most useful thing come exam time, and our teacher was amazing with extra help and really making sure we understood the material. The most important thing is to not fall behind, and ask loads of questions if you don’t understand a topic.
I know this is an extremely late response, but did you take this class with other APs? I’m taking it with a few others & that means I have to balance my time spent on each subject