<p>I took a DBQ in class today and I completely blanked out and forgot everything I knew. I'm afraid this will happen on the AP exam as well! Can anyone provide me with suggestions as to how to read my book (American Pageant) so that I won't forget everything! ARGH this is frustrating.</p>
<p>I also have American Pageant. My APUSHIST class is pretty intense, so I'm pretty confident that my teacher will prepare me adequately just by going through stuff in class. If you have to go alone in case your class sucks or something, you probly don't have time to go through the whole book. You can find notes for every chapter, unit, theme, courtcases, famous figure etc online
<a href="http://www.course-notes.org/US_History/%5B/url%5D">http://www.course-notes.org/US_History/</a>
<a href="http://college.hmco.com/history/us/bailey/american_pageant/11e/students/ace/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://college.hmco.com/history/us/bailey/american_pageant/11e/students/ace/index.html</a>
<a href="http://www.colinjeanne.net/apus/history/notes.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.colinjeanne.net/apus/history/notes.htm</a></p>
<p>also, take some practice tests.
the best part about the Amer Pageant is the chronology at the end of each chapter. Just go through all those and refresh on the events that have eluded your mind. that should be a great help.<br>
I really need to start studying...</p>
<p>watch Histeria!</p>
<p>I'm really nervous, too. Although I'm amused by the American Pageant, I don't learn very well from it. We're having after school review sessions, though, so hopefully those will help.</p>
<p>Ew. I can't believe it's in three weeks. I haven't even started to review!!!</p>
<p>I'm using this site</p>
<p>and I'm reading Kaplan's history review.</p>
<p>Study everything, and on the day of the test don't freak out. Because I guarantee you, if you freak out ununusually on a test like an AP test, you won't do as well as you could have.</p>
<p>And take as many practice tests as possible, go over DBQ's and essays and figure out what you would write.</p>
<p>What my class was told is that for most dbqs you can use the acronym DRESPP(diplomacy,religion,economics,social issues,presidents,politics). When you outline your essay take any info from the time period and put it under one of these ideas. when you write you can then take information which relates to the topic from the DR ESPP chart. Also read the documents, their dates, and the source before you outline, you be suprised what you can remeber just by seeing a familiar name or date.</p>
<p>We use PERSIA (political, economic, religion, Social, intellectual, and artistic), which puts the main six in the order from importance.</p>
<p>^PERSIA is the best acronym to use</p>
<p>Does anyone feel like American Pageant is well-written but really confusing because it refuses to go in chronological order?</p>
<p>^ That's exactly how I feel.</p>
<p>^Yeah..I hate that. They go back and forth wayy to much. Also if you have the 13th edition, there are about 10 DBQs at the back of the book, practice from those.</p>
<p>I also use PERSIA</p>
<p>PERSIA-Artistic..how do you use that?</p>
<p>Artistic is really more oriented towards Euro</p>
<p>How specific is the AP test anyway? The questions. Is it easy to eliminate answers?</p>
<p>Lots of the answers ive seen are from different time periods than what the question asked. For example I saw a quesiton that asked about De Toqueville coming to America and his statement about America. One of the answers was something about industrialization, and another was about like the civil war or something. The correct answer was about aristocracy. The time periods for a lot of answers will be different than the stated question. Keep your eye out for that.</p>
<p>I've noticed sometimes it's easier if you go through the answers to find what they are not associated with, and then leaving the answer you're unsure of to be correct. (like when it asks you about obscure acts, if you identify the other answers are effects of acts you know, those usually arent the answers)</p>
<p>if you have absolutly no idea what the answer is you should leave it blank. if you can eliminate at least one take an educated guess. it is scored like the SAT 1/4th off for a wrong answer 1 point for a correct one.</p>
<p>If it's about Civil Rights, when in doubt pick the 14th Amendment if it's an option.</p>