I’m starting late. I thought I’d do well taking my AP U.S. government course via my state online school, but it’s so horrible.
4 assignments per week, 2-3/4 of which do not have anything to do with my course.
61 assessments (the majority of are written answers with, on average, 4 - 7+ paragraphs of writing) to do in 18 weeks (and there are 119 lessons I have to view, take notes on, and study in order to pass the next quiz even though my teacher told me I didn’t need to do these lessons). Plus, 1 of 4 of my assignments is based on ~30 pages of textbook reading.
Almost every lesson has a broken link. All the textbook quizzes have insane questions like “According to a study by John Zaller, which of the following statements is true?” without giving us real textbook study guides. I mean, our textbook “study guides” are identical copies of the ones the textbook publisher hands out, or mutilations. One or the other. They’re horrid. Or at least, I think so. We’re not even supposed to use our textbook to answer these questions.
I don’t know WHAT my school did (I know my teacher didn’t make the course) but the American Government, AP* Edition, 11th Edition James Q. Wilson course notes we have do not include multiple choice or true/false questions that are listed as course notes here on the Cengage website and on top of that, I can’t even answer the majority of the multiple choice questions here. I have a 98% average in the course. It stops at Study Outline and has “discussion questions” that we never, never discuss or get answers to.
What books should I use? Should I keep using this textbook and just use these better study guides and quit my course?! I want to quit my course anyway. I just need to know books prepbooks, and quiz sites I should use.