Is it too late to cram for the AP Human Geography test?

Test Preparation AP History & Social Sciences
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I don’t want anything less than a 4. But after looking through one of the workbooks, I realize that our class has only briefly outlined everything. I have ONE exam next Thursday (APWH) so hopefully, studying wont be to horrible.</p>

Do you think I still have time to study? I told my mom I didn’t want to take the APHG test and she FLIPPED OUT! She was yelling about how lazy I am, how she told me to study like a month ago, etc. and here I am thinking about the 20+ hours I’ve spent in the World History study guide.</p>

Any of you have tips on what to do? Especially for the free-response section? My teacher has a really outdated mindset. Any advice is helpful!</p>

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dude if you cant cram ap human geography with 5 days left to spare, then you’re weak and definitely aren’t ready for college. princeton review or barron’s takes no more than 20 hours to cram. 4 hours a day. and if you have other stuff, then put them on hold. this is your priority right now.</p>

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Do you consider yourself a smart and/or capable student? If so, you should be able to do it very easily. AP Human Geography is one of the easiest APs, and many people self-study it with only five days of prep and get 5s. You have taken a class in addition to that. Just spend the next five days reading through Barron’s and you should get at least a 4 easily.</p>

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“dude if you cant cram ap human geography with 5 days left to spare, then you’re weak and definitely aren’t ready for college”</p>

Way to be unecessarily and unjustifiably rude… </p>

Anyway, kc, I’m assuming you’re a freshman or sophomore and this may be your first year taking AP exams. If your school is anything like mine then all your teachers have been pounding into your head all year how difficult AP exams are and how it’s college level material and how you need to spend months(lol) reviewing. Or maybe that’s not the philosophy at your school, but anyway, don’t stress over it. Like the others have said human geo is an easy exam. 5 days is plenty of time to burn through a review book, and you’re getting ahead of the game here. (My first AP exam was world history and my review/cram started the day before the test >_>) </p>

Most important things, number 1, know the material. Whichever review book you have, read the entire review section. You have enough time to do this, so do that first. Personally I recommend skipping the “test strategies” and practice questions in each section and only reading the content, but if you know your own study strategies well then just follow them. </p>

Number 2, be familiar with how the free response is scored. If your teacher didn’t cover this in class, read your review book’s section on it and go to college board’s website, look at the past free response for human geo. Don’t try and do a full response to each one because you won’t get through many, read a prompt and just write down all the information you know to answer it, in an outline format. Check your outline with the college board rubric. If you have time, and you may not, then do one full length practice free response (answering all three questions), and check your answer with college board’s rubric.</p>

Number 3, don’t panic. As stated above, human geography is one of the easiest APs, which is why it is usually targeted at freshman and sophomore students. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy test, but it does mean that it is entirely possible, and not even unlikely, for you to get a 4 or 5 on the test even if you haven’t put the amount of effort into it that is usually required of an AP class. </p>

If you have a better suited personal study plan then what I’ve suggested, go for it. The TL;DR answer to your question is, no it’s not too late to cram! Good luck on human geo and on APWH. ^^</p>

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HG is easy. I read Barrons 2 months ago took a practice test today and got 65/75 right. My studying will begin this week.</p>