I’m not worried about the MC. I remember things if I’m reminded. But I’m worried about totally blanking on FRQ and DBQ prompts, and not being able to remember enough outside information.</p>
How are you preparing for these? Right now I’m just going to reread the 28 APUSH chapters haha</p>
… I wouldn’t do that… Look at recent prompts from like the past few years, they probably won’t recycle those. I myself bought a quick review kaplan book that has an antebellum DBQ and post bellum FRQ so I will just go to the library and do those in like 80 min.</p>
so like study everything other than the last 5-6 years’ prompts?</p>
is it worth practicing any of the old DBQ/FRQs, or no because those are sure not to be the prompts this year?</p>
Practice going through old prompts and making a laundry list of key terms you would use as evidence. They’ll help you see your weak spots</p>
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It’s definitely worth practicing them since you need to get an idea of what it’s like to write 3 essays in 130 minutes. Plus, on AP Central, you can see what top-scoring responses look like, so you can understand what the graders are looking for.</p>
Personally, I think it’s more important to write a good essay than it is to present lots of facts. I’ve found (based on what I’ve read on AP Central) that top essays don’t have way more facts than the lower-scoring ones, but that the top essays explain how their certain pieces of evidence support their thesis.</p>
when it comes to history essays, as mechanical as this may seem, I’ve always scored highly when I supplant my evidence with “this was caused by…” “this was significant because…” “the effect of this…”</p>
I’m good at arguing things/writing essays in general – I’m worried about having a big enough fact-base to draw it on, haha. I guess I’ll just review a lot?</p>
(Interficio – who are you killing? :o)</p>