<p>I'm not stupid, I just don't get how to study for this class. Its not like 9th grade when you could just memorize the study guide.</p>
<p>How do you people do good in this class?? Everyone in my classroom is doing decent in it, around B average. But for some reason I have a D+???? My grade isn't ruined, I can still correct my tests and get 100% full credit on them. Its just I want to get my test scores up before I'm screwed for the AP Exam.</p>
<p>I don’t know how your APUSH class is run, but in mine, if you memorized well, basically everything, you’d get an A. That’s a lot of stuff–certainly more than the study guide, but it worked for me in both the class and on the AP (got an A and a 5).</p>
<p>Maybe your class is different though…what are you getting points off for on the tests?</p>
<p>Read your chapters. Take notes in lecture. Review the notes before the test. If your chapter has review questions at the end of your chapters, then go through those. It helps.</p>
<p>do you use american pagaent? and does your teacher use a test generator?</p>
<p>^ Thanks I’ll try that.</p>
<p>@CranBerryOrange - My teacher has a lot of “Why” Questions on the test so you have to understand the big picture, not just memorize. I’m just going to try and read the Book, Notes, I guess.</p>
<p>@RAlec114 - Yes. Test Generator?? My teacher uses those bubbling scan tron sheets.</p>
<p>Quick question, not meant to sound offensive, but I am curious…if you aren’t reading/taking notes/reviewing, don’t you know why you’re doing poorly?</p>
<p>AMSCO</p>
<p>10char.</p>
<p>APNotes (and in-class notes) + Waking up early + coffee = A in course and 5 on exam</p>
<p>While I agree with everyone here that notes are important, I feel that in APUSH tests one of the most important strategies is knowing what isn’t right as well as what is. For example, most of the time, in my case at least, there is one question, followed by three wrong answers and one right answer. Now one easy way to extract the correct answer would be, assuming that the three incorrect answers contain much the same content, to simply find the answer that does not correlate positively to the other answers, because if three answers say the same thing, and you can only choose one answer, you automatically know that the three answers and their content are wrong, and that the fourth answer is right. So reasoning is as much a part of APUSH test-taking as any other subject, alongside knowledge.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I have my next APush test next friday.
And I have no school this Thursday or Friday.</p>
<p>I’m going to read all the chapters, do all those notes, and study my butt of with a bunch of practice tests.</p>
<p>There are always some people in my class that get 100% and I’m just like ***???</p>
<p>I understand where your coming from. My APUSH is a 2yr course. I had a C+ first quarter, but I read the textbook (like really read the book, twice if you have to), and look over notes. I managed to get an A’s on the next few tests and an A for the class. Just read the textbook.</p>