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<p>Zing.
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<p>You guys do realize though you're smarter than most of the population and you should take that into account when giving advice? It is NOT easy at every school, as of right now there are only two people with A-'s in my class. The material, if you enjoy history, isn't necessarilly hard at all, but depending on your teacher you should have very good analytical skills, be able to extrapolate information from what you know and write comprehensive essay relatively quickly.</p>
<p>Ok, how 'bout APEURO.......many says like it's sylllabus and/or magnitude is lesser than APUSH??</p>
<p>I think APUSH is pretty tough. There are so much info to memorize. In addition, I have a rather awful teacher who tends to stumble on her words and often digresses from the main subject. My class is discussion based but a lot of it so far turned out pretty boring and flat...though I like history itself I don't think I'm in a good class which makes the materials even harder to learn.</p>
<p>AP U.S. is one of the hardest classes at my high school- but a lot of people take it because the teacher is absolutely amazing. The class was really tough, but the good thing about that was that everyone thought the AP test was a piece of cake since we were used to our teacher's tests (pop essays/DBQs, hard MC, weekly essays/synopses). That's one good thing of having a hard teacher/hard class- you get so used to everything that the actual AP test seems really really easy.</p>
<p>yeah it's the same at my school. my teacher is really funny but he teaches well thematically which helps for the essays and his tests are very difficult which helps prep for the ap exam as well, so lots of his kids get 5's.</p>
<p>I'm currently taking AP history in my school; it's extremely difficult for me because I'm so bored by the details and can't retain any of the info unless I review like every single night.</p>
<p>DEFINATELY depends on the teacher.
Two teachers teach it at my school. I ended up with the harder one, and had to work about five times harder than some of my friends, who had the other, easier teacher.
But my teacher was cool, even though he did give us a crapload of work haha. So I didn't mind. And I'm a social studies kinda gal so yeah.
If you like the subject, take it. Otherwise I'd pass.</p>
<p>i did well in my soph world history class but still found apush to be a little bit of a shock at first...it's a lot to take in. the course moves wicked fast. honestly, learn the material COLD the first time around and then when you review you'll be ok. take good notes for the text and the class so you have something to work from at the end of the year.
also, GET AMSCO (prep book). i read the chapter in it that correlates to our textbook and it's wonderful to sum things up (much more straightforward than our text).</p>
<p>I loved AP USH. My teacher was basically superman. I'm convinced that the teacher really does make the class, because it really is hard, but I still managed to enjoy it and get a 4 on the test. Seriously. It was like a chapter every other night. It was insane and horrible and amazing all wrapped up into one. I lost a lot of sleep for that class, but looking back, I would do it again in a minute because I gained so much from it.</p>
<p>^^that was touching.</p>
<p>Ours was so damn easy. We took tests, and got to do test corrections afterwards. I think maybe 25/30 kids got an A in the class, even though only 5 passed the actual AP exam. I did nothing in the class, but was the only one smart enough to buy Kaplan and PR review books and crammed. I got a 5.</p>