Official 2011 AP European History Self-Study Thread

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<p>Hey everyone this is the place for all those taking the 2011 AP European History Exam! If your self-studying: </p>

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<li> What text book do you plan to use? (Western Experience, etc…)</li>
<li> What review book do you plan to use? (PR,etc…)</li>
<li> When will you begin to study? (Month before, etc…)</li>
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<p>Good luck to everyone and I hope this will help to achieve some 5s!</p>

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<ol>
<li>none</li>
<li>Modern European History, but I’m still looking (and am open to suggestions) for review books</li>
<li>In September</li>
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<p>I am not using a text book either. I am hoping that the REA (Are you serious about getting a 5?) book will suffice; I have being reading it all summer. I ordered PR but it hasn’t arrived. I may be a little bit too early put that to use. Hoping to progress through the year, I have found that watching youtube videos to supplement really helps, it makes everything that I have read, stick.</p>

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<p>I’ll probably buy REA’s Crash Course a month or two before the exam. I’m still deciding between PR and Barron’s, though. What YouTube videos are you using?</p>

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<p>I’m thinking about self studying, is this class hard to self study? (time consuming?)</p>

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<p>For the YouTube Video’s I was looking for a documentary on Marie Antoinette, so I just typed in Marie Antoinette and there were hundreds of videos. Any topic that you what to learn more about or don’t feel like reading at that particular time; type it in and see what you get…There is this one person who has an impressive upload collection of just European History. ( landonlyhistorylover ) I have spent hours just watching this person’s uploads. </p>

<p>I’ll probably do the same for the REA Crash Course; I have heard it is the best! </p>

<p>@wvcollegecrazy: It depends on your dedication, for myself I enjoy learning any type of history. So this self study is more of a fun class. The AP classes that I am taking at my high school have a strong science and math base, and I wanted a little bit of a break. I have been reading throughout the summer, and classes (not AP) that I am required to take at my school will supplement what I am teaching myself. So to it sum up: it really depends on you. </p>

<p>Hope this helps!</p>

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<p>I just made the decision to self study AP European History. </p>

<p>a. The Western Heritage
b. Modern European History and another one, probably REA
c. Late November</p>

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<p>@ lufausljc: Thanks for the input I hadn’t even heard of The Western Heritage, and I was really looking for a text book! Good Luck and please continue to post, I hope this thread helps and keeps everyone motivated! :)</p>

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<p>Ebonemonk, thanks for the tip. I never considered using videos, but they’re great (from what I’ve seen so far). Tell me how PR works out for you when you get it.</p>

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<p>@ ebonemonk,
no problem, by the way, The Western Heritage is a great book. Bought it like more than a month ago for just 3 dollars (Volume I, which means that it is practically half of the textbook) at Amazon (great condition by the way).</p>

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<p>Just checking in on everyone… I think the thread has died… I am picking up on the studying; hopefully the winter break will give me a chance to prepare. Even though the exam time period begins at 1450s; I’ve started at the Early Middle Ages (Chapter 6 in WH). Almost done with Chapter 9 (WH). Oh, if anyone reads this happy thanksgiving! And good luck</p>

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<p>hahahahahahahahhaa.</p>

<p>March 3rd, 2011:</p>

<p>I started studying. The day I registered for it!</p>

<p>woot!</p>

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<p>Just like to say I think all you people are crazy no INSANE! For trying to self study this! I am in the class and it is still hard! And my teacher is an AP reader! So yeah good luck lol</p>

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<p>Omg Modern European History by Viault is a must have, great source and gives a great amount of information. In fact my teacher uses almost all his lessons straight from the book.</p>

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<p>I told myself I would do this at the beginning of the school year while taking regular European history. Then the school year started and I gave up.</p>

<p>Is Euro supposed to be reallyyy boring?</p>

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<p>I’m actually taking IB History, which goes from thousands of years BC to the late 1800’s. So I’m technically not a full self-study, but I’ll be doing the last century on my own.</p>

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<li>No textbook… We do have to use Palmer for class, but it’s VERY dense. I think the teacher was talking about an AP Euro book she uses for her AP class, but I’m not sure which one that was.</li>
<li>REA Crash Course. Then hopefully borrow my friend’s PR for some practice tests.</li>
<li>Eh… I’ll probably start in a week or two.</li>
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<p>I’m still kind of scared though, since I don’t have a good track record with a history… <em>tends to BS the essays</em> I couldn’t even get a 5 on US history, lol, though that probably means I’ll have to study more for this one.</p>

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<p>Your in luck for the DBQ considering you don’t need any knowledge of Euro history to complete it. Simply have a solid theses with a good stance and then group the documents into 3 groups and just interpret the documents and use them to support your argument.</p>

<p>Be sure to you a majority of the documents and also to discuss point of view for 3 of the documents you use.</p>

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<p>agreed…lol…but i admire u all that are self-studying…</p>

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<p>Haha, I just started studying… Hopefully I’ll get a lot of work done this weekend. </p>

<p>As far as materials, I am using the Viault book, and I also bought a textbook (the AP edition of ‘A History of Western Society’). </p>

<p>So far, I’m still hoping that I can read the entire textbook by the end of the month, then study the Viault review book until the exam. My goal is a 5, so hopefully I can keep on track :)</p>

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<p>Well good Luck to all!!! Keep up the good work and I hope everyone stays on track… Happy Spring Break Studying!! :)</p>