How to keep sanity during AP season?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>It's EXTREMELY difficult to find interest in this WHAP stuff. Like honestly, 90% of people will probably forget all of this stuff within 5 years of graduation. I am SORRY, but I do NOT enjoy or even remotely care about the quadrillion King's you have to memorize and like the 20 Ivan's I'm going to forget in the next day, I don't care which empires used to be bureaucracies and I honestly don't care which civilization had irrigation systems or what of the quadrillion Louis' did.</p>

<p>I'm not going to get a job because I know who Oliver Cromwell is, I'm not going to be "smarter" or "enlightened" by memorizing everything Henry IV did or who Cardinal Richelieu was. </p>

<p>I used to be VERY interested in history but studying for WHAP honestly took all of it out of the drain. I seem to forget everything about it the next day because I'm so uninterested in what I'm reading. As I'm reading through PR, I just look at how many pages I have left and don't want to work anymore. The words seem like the dullest and most uninteresting things in the world</p>

<p>The more and more I read this stuff the more I feel like history is completely useless ( which i know isn't completely true)
and the more I lose focus and just want to quit. The class was severely uninteresting - studying all of these minor details like what year the Germans dd this or that. Not to mention I had whap 1st semester and got a freaknig B on it. Sure I might get college credit but ugh this seriously sucks. None of my friends are studying that much and I I can't go out because my parent's wont let me.</p>

<p>I would rather do ANYTHING than read that book again. Seriously, cleaned the dishes instead of reading that thing.
There is TOO MUCH material - I will never remember all of it. I'm not very smart or intelligent so I can't just memorize everything immediately like most smart people at my school who never study</p>

<p>sorry for making you watch me complain but i needed somewhere to vent my frustration. never been this stressed in my life
How do I become motivated again/</p>

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<p>You don’t. You give up like I did</p>

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<p>By studying</p>

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<p>The exam isn’t that specific…</p>

<p>However, it is pretty brutal. Know major themes. You don’t really even have to know names for the test.</p>

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<p>^I second this. Last year I took both WHAP and the World History Subject test and the way you’re describing the work you do makes it sound like you are preparing for the subject test, and even then it’s not that specific. I cannot stress enough the need to know overarching themes throughout different time periods and dynasties. Last year many people complained about the multitude of small selections and reading passages, not about any nuanced details that were tested. This is simply because they are not; unless they’ve significantly changed the test, knowing anything super specific is not needed. You will need to know what major events and ideas fall within what time period, you can’t think that Mongol rule of China took place in the Xia dynasty, as well as connections like the fact that Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are similar in the fact that they founders.</p>