<p>Which of the following three subject tests would be the easiest to self-study for in the next month (assuming a decent foundation)?</p>
<p>Spanish
U.S. History
World History</p>
<p>U.S. would be the most legit, though most difficult.</p>
<p>World History is MUCH easier as an AP test and a subject test compared to U.S. History. U.S. History will go deeply into details and specific time periods and name pick. Literally I took U.S. History AP and it felt like an AP test, one of them was a questions about pop art, which if you took a regulars course you would not know. If you want statistics here they are, I took U.S. History AP, I got a 770/800, my two friends who are 90 students in regulars both got a 520 and 500 respectively.</p>
<p>The spanish AP is defintiely not a self-study test, they actually recommend taking several years of spanish before even considering taking the test. I would definitely not recommend it.</p>
<p>The World was not as difficult as the U.S., it was easier, but I had learned U.S. History that year and World I had learned a year ago and had reviewed nothing. zip, did not even look at practice questions. I still managed to get a 750 on that too, but trust me World is just overall an easier subject. It goes broad, while U.S. goes detailed (only 200 years of history after all) If you manage to grasp major cocnepts in World you should be fine, stuff like hegemony, balance of trades, migrations, don't go detailed if time is limited. Go Broad and just learn civilizations, river valley, mesoamerican, european, etc and events Treaty of Vienna etc.</p>
<p>^ I've taken 3 1/2 years of Spanish already, so that's a plus.</p>
<p>I bought the Barron's WH book, and it seems pretty specific and tough, but apparently Barron's is always harder than the real thing lol.</p>
<p>yea, I mean it's not going to be "easy" unless you've taken a rigorous course, but I mean out of the three it would be the easiest. I mean considering I had a year of study, but yea know your civilizations, especially when they begin and fall and their crowning acheivement. I.E. Romans = construction and engineering let's say and Islamic Empire = consolidated power in Middle East during period, "middle man" of trade from Europe to Asia.</p>
<p>Any would work, really. Personally, though, I'd do the Spanish.</p>
<p>is world history literally worldwide? or is it mainly like European wars?
in other words, how obscure does the test get?</p>
<p>also what's a good book for world history?</p>
<p>I'd get a standard Princeton Review book and yes the book is worldwide, but only from ancient civs to 1980s. Most tests also only have like 2-3 questions past 1950s anyway. While it is called World History for the majority of it it, it is essentially how the Western World changed and dominated the world from the 1500s-onward. You'll have to know specific civilizations like Bantu of Africa, Aztec, Inca and possible Olmec and Mayan for AMericas and etc, but really after the 1500s onward it is just Europe dominating the global scene and how Europe changed these civilizations (liek Islamic) that had been existing for longer than Europe had and the effect of that.</p>
<p>My best reply is really if you're good at history and you'll probably know if you are, you should be ok (not great) without even taking the course. Of course, you won't know specific civilizations and treaties but I think you can infer what the effect of the renaissance the global exploration was, colonies and etc.</p>