<p>i had the highest grade in my world history class since the beginning of the year and out of the rest of his classes. i was wondering if i should do it or not. anyone that had ap u.s history, do u have any tips?</p>
<p>It's easy. Just read the book and you'll do fine.</p>
<p>it's definitely harder compared to world history class but as long as you don't procrastinate (which is inevitable so keep it at minimum) i think you'll be fine. review periodically--this is the most important part because there is a LOT of info to cover. and if you love history that's a plus too. i'm actually intrigued by most of the material so it was easier for me to memorize and stuff. good luck!</p>
<p>p.s. review review review. you cannot cram for it unless you have superhuman photographic memory. i know i mentioned this already but just emphasizing it! =)</p>
<p>in my school there's a bunch of smart kids taking it and they're all doing awful. but that's probably just my school.</p>
<p>It is soooooooo easy. I can took it without studying and ended up with a 4.</p>
<p>^
you can took it?</p>
<p>Depends on your teacher. In my class, there're a few quizzes each week (on each chapter), the teacher lectures, we don't do reviews / get helpful things, then there's a test every 3 or so weeks. Usually, there's a ~10% curve on each one just so that more people will pass. We also have to memorize presidents / dates of election / parties. So my class is pretty difficult. Others, not so much.</p>
<p>I say go for it.</p>
<p>Not bad. But I am one of those who always get the lowest test scores. Dunno, but I am known for doing bad in standardized tests. Probably I am like that? But it is rare for me to ace any test, regardless of subject. Anywho, I would say it's just like regular history, but more intense (more tests, more copying notes in class, more readings) But it's definitely doable.</p>
<p>heavy workload, easy material, know the details. that's all you need for it. my year had crappy FRQs though. and DBQ. it had like 5 questions in one.</p>
<p>I think the class depends on the teacher as well, and how your school structures it. For example, at my school, APUSH is a two-year sequential course. The first year covers up to and including the civil war, and the second year covers up to modern day politics. There are two teachers who teach the first year, one who focuses on group projects and writing assignments and one who focuses on teaching the material and highliting the important parts of each chapter with short projects. Both teachers assign relatively equivalent amounts of work, but grade very differently. To us sophomores who are taking it, taking notes on 10 pages of college-level texts, and then working on projects on top of that, is a heavy workload, but in comparison to other AP courses, I would say it's only somewhat more challenging. As far as grading goes, one teacher grades based on how well you write, and the other grades on a combination of how well you regurgitate information as well as how well you analyze it. </p>
<p>As far as the test... I've got another year and two months.</p>
<p>It's SO worth it if you have a good teacher. I had an amazing teacher who really made me fall in love with the subject and I got a 5 on the exam... and I am also planning on majoring in history at NYU next year. :-) It's a great class, the exam is not mind-numbingly difficult (i.e., I never wanted to stab myself in the eye like I do when I study calculus) and it makes AP US Gov a lot easier when you're a senior!</p>
<p>yea, it's a pretty easy class, especially if you have a dynamic teacher :)</p>
<p>it depends on the teacher.</p>
<p>the material itself isn't hard; it's just memorization, not understanding/comprehension.</p>
<p>i say take it. i did, and it was THE best class of my academic career, hands down. not only did it make me a better student, but it was the most fun class with the best teacher ever.</p>
<p>You guys are lucky you had fun with APUSH. My teacher was a total douche. She had like a forest growing up her ass or something.</p>
<p>APUSH is a hard class because of the amount of document work at our school. It is very time consuming. It is worth it to most of the kids though because the teacher is really good and has fun so the kids want to do well.</p>
<p>APUSH definitely isn't one of the easier AP courses. Your score really depends on how much time you put into it. If you study hard, get the right prep books, and pay attention in class, a 5 is easily attainable. However, if you don't work hard you could easily wind up with a 3. I scored a 4 and was rather disappointed with myself. A good teacher can definitely make a difference too.. I think you should take the test. It looks good on applications to have as many AP's as possible</p>
<p>To be honest, the people who say it's easy and the people who say it's hard are both wrong. The difficulty of the class almost completely depends on the teacher, how much work they assign and how their quizzes/tests/essays are. My class has a really good, but difficult teacher and the highest grade anyone has i think is like a 91. A lot of times its because the tests have multiple correct answers for m.c. questions and it's hard to identify the "best" answer. I think you should take it definitely, but also don't go into it expecting and needing an "A."</p>
<p>I didn't do very well in my AP US class the entire year but managed to pull off a 4 on the test after studying a review book two nights before the test. The test itself isn't extremely difficult, but it is very long and involves a lot of essay writing. 2 hours of essays is tough. I had a good teacher who focused more on broad concepts rather than memorizing facts. I think that helped on the writing portion of the test.</p>
<p>At my school APUSH is a joke, everyone ends up with an A or B. But I'm starting to study for the exam, and I honestly don't think that it's going to be that difficult.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA! Hard? Wooooo. At my school, it's about the best freaking class ever. The teacher is a big kid who has no qualms about embarassing himself and anyone else he meets. He actually asked the class if anyone had ever slept with a block of cheese in his bed. He would talk about "Miller Time" (exactly 3:15 PM), sing songs to the Eskimo Man, and pluralizes everyone's name ("Hey Sarahs, how you doing?"). He scheduled every test for a Friday, pushed it back to Monday, and on Monday put in a video before saying, at the end of the period, "Gosh darn, I forgot to give you that test!". The month before the AP test, he asked us every class if we wanted to do a practice DBQ or learn by video. We watched the scene in Dances with Wolves where the woman says "I'm mourning" about 23 times because he thought she said "I'm horny." No lie. Still, I managed to learn something and got a 5 on the AP test (which is pretty tough- it's exhausting writing those DBQ's and searching the annals of your mind for facts from November). Poor guy is now in deep trouble with the administrators. They turned on the intercom and listened to his class (which is very colorful and not at all P.C.) without his knowledge. He's monitored pretty closely these days.</p>
<p>So maybe I just had a really fun experience with U.S. History and all the other classes out there are tough, but from my perspective, it's an easy A.</p>