<p>I have AMSCO, though I am unsure as to how to use it, particularly to do well in our weekly tests. (Note, they are detailed questions)</p>
<p>Do I read AMSCO in replacement of the texbook? Read AMSCO first, then fill in gaps with textbook? Try and pick important parts?</p>
<p>How did you do it?</p>
<p>Anyone...?</p>
<p>noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo;; don't rEAd At All just listEn thAt how i got through it with An A + A 5</p>
<p>I have an A+ (95) in a very difficult APUSH class. Anyway, here is what I do. I outline my textbook (Brinkley's American History: A Survey), then I fill in the gaps with Amsco, as well as highlight AMSCO. Then I answer the multiple choice questions in the back as well as doing other online quizzes. It works really well. I've gotten 100's on all my quizzes and my lowest test grade was an 88. I think it should mainly be used to summarize things as it leaves out a lot of things. Hope I helped :)
P.S.
At first it may seem like a lot of work but its really not. Also, as the above post mentioned, definitely listen in class because all the stuff your teacher is talking about is important otherwise they wouldn't mention it.</p>
<p>Anyone find Brinkley's American History: A Survey poorly written and very repetitive?</p>
<p>I think its well written and can get repetitve at times but I still think it is the best AP U.S. textbook. The honors class in my school uses American Pagent the AP version and to me it isn't as intellectually stimulating.</p>
<p>I used AMSCO almost exclusively, I maybe looked at Pageant once last year and I got a 5 on the AP test, I didn't study for it at all, and my teacher didn't really teach WW2 or anything past LBJ. Maybe I'm just good on tests.</p>
<p>I started reading reading the chapters in AMSCO and doing the MC questions at the end. I started with Chapter 5, because the chapters about the colonies were boring. I am getting, on average, 3 wrong per 10 questions at the end of the chapter. Am I doing ok if I want to score in the low 4 range on the AP test?</p>
<p>I found out that reading the textbook for small quizzes was enough to get 10/10's, but right before a huge test. It is better to just read the AMSCO book (maybe your notes) and memorize the important details. </p>
<p>For my midterm, I just sort-of read the AMSCO (ran out of time due to procrastination); on the midterm, the teacher gave us an essay that everyone had prepared for other than me, that is.<br>
To make a long story short, I ended up with a 91 on the exam just by reading the AMSCO book.</p>