APUSH retest tips?

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<p>So I may or may not be retaking the APUSH exam in the spring because I failed. I'm not talking about the CC "OMG I failed, I got a four! I'm going to go cut myself, cry, and eat a gallon of icecream!" fail...I'm talking legit "Oh crap I got a two," fail.</p>

<p>I have four books we got last year that we never atually "read" that I'm going to go through.</p>

<p>They're:</p>

<p>Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of the US,"
A History of Women in America
Rise to Rebellion (Shaara)
and "A Different Mirror" by Takaki.</p>

<p>I also still have my old APUSH textbook, and PR's APUSH (2011).
I'm considering breaking down and buying the new "Fast Track to a 5" coming out in February. </p>

<p>I plan on studying primarily over the breaks, but I don't want to study it too much and fail this years exams (US Gov't and Psychology (only person taking it (Yes, I did just us a parentheses inside a parentheses inside a parentheses))).</p>

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<p>Get AMSCO and just use that. Period, end of story. If you fail with AMSCO, you’re just not prepared to take a class like AP US.</p>

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<p>I was told I got a very high two.</p>

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<p>^^Who the hell told you that?</p>

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<p>“a very high two” how? Who told you this?</p>

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<p>My APUSH teacher from last year.</p>

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<p>^And how did your APUSH teacher know?</p>

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<p>Not sure…but all the AP teachers know at my school.</p>

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<p>I think that for APUSH no one review book is good enough; it won’t contain all the information you must know. I reccomend using two review books. I used Princeton Review for one of them, and it worked.</p>

<p>I’m also working on an APUSH website with study guides on it. <a href=“https://sites.google.com/site/apushstudyguides/[/url]”>https://sites.google.com/site/apushstudyguides/&lt;/a&gt; It only goes up to 1848 now but I’ll add the rest to it soon.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>What is AMSCO anyway? Is it like a PR/Barrons?</p>