<p>is it really that bad? all the good kids at my school take APUSH in 10th grade, i've heard it's brutal...how many hours a night of work do you get? any study tips?</p>
<p>get the amsco review book and your golden. my teacher gives us lots of boring tedious work though, so it kinda takes the fun out of the class.</p>
<p>I'd think exactly how hard the class is would depend on the teacher right? I'm not sure though.</p>
<p>APUSH is offered in 11th grade at my school, and the teacher is amazing at preparing the students for the exam, but she strictly emphasizes the need for the students to familiarize themselves with the topics to the best of their ability, so she'd give numerous packets for the students to read about every night that are all over 30 pages long and in small font and write numerous pages on it. So, the class at my school is terribly hard that the homework from that class along with the homework from other classes would probably only allow the students a few hours of sleep a night. The tests are also pretty difficult, and the teacher usually gives them a lot of practice essays. But it's definitely manageable, since a lot of my friends have taken it, and I plan to take it as well next year. The work that the teacher gives all help to prepare them for the actual test and I think its great to get so much practice. I don't have any tips though, sorry, since I haven't taken the class yet.</p>
<p>we have noooo homework except a easy project per quarter (that i can finish the period before and get a 97 whoot!) and bluebooks...doesn't really prepare you for the exam though.</p>
<p>I actually dropped APUSH because it was too much work. I obviously knew that I would have tons of work and studying to do, but at the pace the teacher went, if you were too busy for even ONE night to do three hours of work, you would fall extremely behind. Plus, I had a few other AP classes, so I decided to focus on those instead. It really does all depend on the teacher though.</p>
<p>It seems like for some schools it's insanely hard, but others it's really easy. Our teacher was pretty laid back, we mainly self-studied for 3 chapters at a time for class tests. I usually started studying two or three days before, and I had a 5 on the AP test.</p>
<p>It's a very brutal class at my school - people are left crying and half the class dropped out, but that's because my teacher is seriously one of the best APUSH teachers in the country - it's a fact. If you don't get a 5 on the APUSH exam after her class, obviously you didn't try hard enough and don't deserve a 5, because there is no better instruction offered. </p>
<p>Over the past 5 years, the number of people in her class who have gotten 5 on the AP exam has consistently been every year around 80/90% - she prepares us extremely well, and thus only the people who don't take the class seriously dont get a 5.</p>
<p>It's a MAX of 1 hour a night. Any more than that and you're kidding yourself.</p>
<p>For my school, its MIN one hour per night. Any less and you're kidding yourself</p>
<p>For my school, it was an hour a night. It was just right. No kidding.</p>
<p>depends on the class... nobody in my class got an A :(</p>
<p>its not that much work at my school...maybe a chapter test per 2 weeks and some DBQ's thrown in there. lot of memorization though</p>
<p>Chapter test every 2 weeks? I think that's considerable, lol</p>
<p>for me historys are extremely easy so maybe my opinion doesnt count. but AP us history is ridiculously easy and i haven't read a page out of my text book yet this year. i beleive were on chapter 20 now...
We have a chapter quiz every week and a test on 4+ chapters every month and a half or so. most people in my class have a low C or worse though so i guess it cant be that easy... Its definitely easier than ap world or euro though.</p>
<p>I think APUSH teachers are notorious for giving ridiculously excessive amounts of homework than is needed.</p>
<p>Actually, I found most AP teachers are, especially if you look at past exams and then at all the extra crap you're spending hours on doing each night. Sometimes I just wish it was structured more like a college class; you study, take some tests, write a few papers, and then the exam. Straight to the point.</p>
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<p>I think it was the easiest AP I've ever taken, and I've taken a lot. Easy A+s, Easy 5.</p>
<p>To the OP. </p>
<p>APUSH was hell in terms of workload, no other teacher at schools assigns anywhere near that much work. but my favorite class last year, no wait, all of high school. I got a 5 too and in retrospect I'm glad that my APUSH teacher assigned so much hw and gave such hard tests that people either dropped or hung on and forgot about grades. </p>
<p>despite all that stress, I'd do it all over again. =)</p>
<p>test every week for us :(</p>
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<p>Haha, thanks.</p>