<p>Seriously. Is it just me or is there so much information, stuff that overlaps and can be interpreted in various ways?</p>
<p>Think of history as a story. It's that easy.</p>
<p>read the textbook</p>
<p>repeat ad infinitum</p>
<p>or ad nauseum if ur a slacker</p>
<p>What book? The textbook?</p>
<p>Edit: Gotcha.</p>
<p>Textbook, course-notes.com, website quizzes</p>
<p>I read the study guide out loud to myself.
Tell me about these history website quizzes:D</p>
<p>study sheets... or I guess the rest of the world calls them study guides or outlines. Go thru your notes/book whatever the test is over & write down the highlights in some kind of logical order. It should be a lot shorter than your original notes, so it'll be easier to study with (especially in the those 2 minutes leading up to the test!)</p>
<p>What I do is I outline the chapters by hand and then I type them up. Then I have my mom quiz me for like an hour to an hour and a 1/2. It may seem superfluous but it works for me. I also like to think about how one thing affects another because that is basically what history is.</p>
<p>Well, we're required to take notes on each chapter and I just remember things from taking notes. I don't usually need to study after that anyway. I think if you fully put your energy into reading the content, you'll absorb much more and maybe not end up having to cram everything.</p>
<p>1) read the designated pages in the text (no notes)
2) re-read them, taking notes two days before the test.
3) review your notes the day before, while skimming the text (do this for a solid hour and a half to two hours).</p>
<p>Works like a charm.</p>
<p>It is extremely important to read the textbook, there is no better substitute for learning history than the text you are assigned, I took AP US History last year and aced the course with little trouble. When you read, take notes, and always review them, and if you are still unsure of what you know, take the notes you wrote before, and break them down again into basic concepts and the most important facts, then you should have no problems. However, do not ALWAYS focus on the big things, when writing essays and stuff of that nature, it is very good to know even the most trivial of facts, being that little additions such as those in your writing will always have a profound impact on your scores. I should take my own advice though, the only times I studied for that class was for the midterm, and the AP Exam, and I still did quite well.</p>
<p>My teacher gave my study guides and I always made tables. That way, while filling them out, I looked in my notes and the textbook.</p>
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<p>Haha, I like that.</p>
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<p>Couldn't have said it better. Turning into a story makes it incredibly easy.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher is very hard.... We got tested on geographical details of Shay's Rebellion last Friday and this weekend it came up for the first time in our reading. But really, the AP test will be pretty hard to ace, with heavy focus on details and a lot of ambiguity. You have to really understand everything, and if your notes are insufficient then use something else... personally I use Wikipedia a lot (don't laugh) because it's generally organized well whereas the textbooks are very presentation-oriented.</p>
<p>Read, read, and more reading. Speaking of tests, I have an APUSH test this Wednesday. I've spent this past week reading the chapters over and over.</p>
<p>Though re-reading chapters is probably good, I never had the time to do that, I need faster and more efficient ways to absorb the material with only reading the chapter one time. It should be mentioned that getting review guides such as those from princeton or barrons is extremely useful, you should buy one for every AP class you have if you want to stay on top of the game.</p>
<p>Pay attention to your homework, read your textbook, be active in class and be active in class.</p>
<p>wuh? .</p>
<p>I don't.</p>