<p>I know that United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination is a must have. Is 5 steps to a 5 AP US history worth the money and which version? Are there any flashcards that I should use also? I'm completely new to this. I've gone through the threads, and the first book was the only one that everyone seemed to agree on so I'm just trying to stretch my inventory .</p>
<p>Personally I’m just reading Amsco then going over specific things. I heard REA Crash Course is good with it. I doubt APUSH requires two books to get a 5, but suit yourself.</p>
<p>I may be telling you more than you care to read, but I am a very strong advocate for the Princeton Review when it comes to history. Read through the Princeton Review and do the practice questions. It is very close to the actual exam in every aspect of its review and practice tests. In fact, I had two little successes that came from using PR: </p>
<p>-I took a practice test out of PR last year for APUSH that had a political cartoon for which I had no idea what the answer was, so I looked up the answer. As it turns out, that same exact cartoon was on the actual AP exam that I took about a week after that, and the question was asking about the same concept. I never would have figured it out if I hadn’t reviewed it a week earlier, strictly by chance.</p>
<p>-The class I took for APUSH covered up to about WII in great detail. Everything after that was mashed up into PowerPoints, thrown at us in quick succession in a desperate hope that something would stick. The history review section in Princeton Review took care of all of that. I found that most of the exam focused on material from WII and earlier, but there were questions sprinkled in from later time periods, including one on Clinton. My class spent absolutely no time on Clinton, not even a PowerPoint. I don’t think he was even mentioned. However, I had flipped through the Princeton Review a few days before the test and happened to glance at some policy Clinton was known for, one I don’t remember now what it was. And lo and behold, a question on the MC specifically asked about that very policy that I had just barely even glanced at before; a question, which to my extreme ecstasy, included Clinton as one of the answer choices.</p>
<p>So Princeton Review all the way. It got me two more answers right that would have been wrong otherwise.</p>
<p>I would not recommend 5 Steps. I do think that Amsco and Crash Course make for a very effective combination. I took the test last year and can state that Crash Course chapter Key Works of Literature, Art, and Music generated 6 hits.</p>
<p>i used 5 steps to a 5 for world history last year and it was perfect. it narrowed all the important info into sections and had review questions at the end of each chapter to make sure you understood everything. i would assume its the same for apush so today i ordered the one for apush</p>