How to get a 5 on the AP US History Test!!!!

Test Preparation
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5 with REA, read it a week before and you should be good.

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<p>Did you really manage to read 14 chapters (257 pages) from REA in 7 days?</p>

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<p>but will cramming in a week really help, isn't that too much i also have chem ap and bio ap should i cram for the apush the week before or spread all three courses out evenly about 1 to 2 months before</p>

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<p>Load the answers with facts.</p>

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<p>my teacher was pretty bad, and i barely did any studying, therefore i got a 4</p>

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Did you really manage to read 14 chapters (257 pages) from REA in 7 days?

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<p>Business_Freak, yes, think of it as reading a novel, albeit an incredibly ****ty, long, boring bulk of text that reminds me of the Waterloo section in the unabridged "Les Mis</p>

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<p>So you read two REA books in one week?</p>

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<p>History-wise, yes.</p>

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<p>Here's how to get a 5 in the last two weeks if you've forgotten almost everything.</p>

<p>Buy Kaplan's SAT II USH guide:
take notes on everything in there and memorize them like mad
Buy PR's APUSH guide:
there's a list in the back of a few hundred things to know
Wikipedia each one and take notes on the event
go over notes all the time</p>

<p>you're golden :)</p>

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<p>I hate the textbook I have to read (Tendall & Shi) cause its soooooo boring and doesnt cover some of the stuff on the test. So im reading AMSCO... do you think that'll be good enough or should I start reading text from now on for a 5?</p>

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<p>i hope this isn't a stupid question, but what is rea?</p>

<p>also, i have a terrible text book, it's america, a narrative story or something like that.</p>

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<p>my apsuh teacher also suggests loading your essays with facts. Apparently, you need to show teh graders that you've learned SOMETHING over the course of a year with APUSH. So learn a crapload of facts and put them into your essay. And for the dbq, put in outside info...they probably leave some key stuff out of the documents to make it easy to put in outside info.</p>

<p>and to learn all these facts, I think what I will do is just leave princeton review/amsco lying around and kinda leaf through them starting in january. i've already forgotten what we did in the beginning of the year!! i need to review lol</p>

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<p>Study for the class and review a basic timeline of major events/elections. Also, <a href="http://www.invadersrealm.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.invadersrealm.com&lt;/a> has great notes for the American Pageant, not sure if this is common knowledge.</p>

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<p><a href="http://apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Memorize every single notecard/flashcard on there. Do it like vocabulary words, except it's history concepts. Then you will be golden. I did this and I got a 5.</p>

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<p>raindrop thanks for sharing that link.
I knew of course_notes.org but not of the one you gave.</p>

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<p>I thought I got a 3 because my essays were crap - exactly what my ush teacher said NOT to do AND i ran out of time, but i managed a 5. so basically, don't overstress. the test (last year at least) was a lot easier than any of the practice tests i took.</p>

<p>a good way to study - after taking the test, go back and make sure you remember all of the answers to the questions you got wrong/left blank.</p>

<p>barron's tests are always a lot harder than the actual test, so that could be a good way to prep as well</p>