I’m taking USH this year as a class (not honors, because my school doesn’t offer it) and there’s one extra class a week for “AP stuff” but I know that’s not enough. I just ordered one of Larry Kreiger’s Crash Course books and I’m hopefully gonna get a good review book. But our school gave us the American Pageant textbook to basically read on our own and study from. Is this one good enough? Because I feel like it has a ton of extra details that I won’t need and will make studying much more difficult. From reading through the threads here, AMSCO seems like the best one, but is it worth paying the $60 for, or is American Pageant just as good? And any really good review book suggestions? Thank you!</p>
<p>My school uses pageant for our real APUSH class. If you truly read it and make sure you understand it, you should be good :)</p>
<p>Its a good book.</p>
<p>All the outlines are at this website: [Textbook</a> Outlines - AP Exam Review | Adaptive Test Prep For AP Exams](<a href=“http://www.apexamreview.com/index.php/study-tools/textbook-outlines]Textbook”>http://www.apexamreview.com/index.php/study-tools/textbook-outlines)</p>
<p>the american pageant is the most distorted textbook I’ve read so far. I highly suggest studying from outlines rather than drudging through the whole thing.</p>
<p>No no no no no. The book is not very good at all. It’s a nice read, for sure, but it is very winding and somewhat disorganized and full of irrelevant info. I suggest getting a book that is more concise and organized for acing the exam.</p>
<p>@deepwater The American Pageant is a good textbook, but it just takes really long to read and has a lot of details. if you really read the book and understand the material, i can basically guarantee you that you will get a 5 on the AP exam. but it is obviously too time consuming to do that and you have other things to do other than AP US. and the amsco is a really good review book and it synthesizes it into everything you need to know for the AP test without the extra details. the amsco is $60 from amazon, but if you buy it from the amsco website it is $18.30. don’t pay all that at amazon, but if it was 60 bucks, i would still buy it. here’s the website [Product</a> Information](<a href=“extendsales.com”>extendsales.com). its just $18.30</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I ended up ordering the AMSCO textbook, in addition to Larry Krieger’s Crash Course book and Barrons’ Flash Cards. So I think I’m all set to go! Thanks everyone for your advice!</p>