<p>Does anybody have any released exams with MC?</p>
<p>How much have you practiced writing the essays in your classes? In my class, we’ve written one DBQ (he never graded it :-L) and we’ve never written an FRQ. Am I screwed for the exam??? :-S </p>
<p>I figure I will put my two cents in here…I am a current junior taking APEURO and got a 4 on the APUSH exam last year. My teacher uses Kagan and recommended we buy Viault. In addition I have REA’s Crash Course by Larry Krieger, PR, and McGraw-Hill’s 500 Euro History Questions (my teacher says their questions are ETS-caliber). I think this is a winning combination; I’ve barely touched Kagan. Viault/MEH is perfect for specifics and PR has practice tests as well as a review session. I’ve also really enjoyed my REA - it’s concise and zeroes in exactly what we need to know.</p>
<p>My teacher requires us to make notecards from a list he provides at the beginning of each unit, and if you do these well they WILL pay off right about now. Additionally, do all the FRQs and DBQs you can and at least one mock exam.</p>
<p>One other tip - my teacher uses “Multiple Choice and Free-Response Questions With DBQ in Preparation for the AP European History Examination History” by Ellis Wasson for a lot of his unit test questions. This is more of a teacher resource so it’s not well known among students but it’s super-helpful. I found a copy at my local Half-Price Books and check it every time I shop there. :P</p>
<p>Hello, I scored a 5 on the AP Euro exam last year and used AP Achiever, and Larry Krieger’s Crash Course. AP Achiever was good to get an overall feel for the entire course while Crash Course was great for the Multiple Choice. Good luck.</p>
<p>Does anyone have advice on writing FRQs? We’ve NEVER written one in my class! 
However we’ve done a lot of work with DBQs and I feel fine on those. </p>
<p>I’m in the same boat. I haven’t written that many FRQs. How long are yours typically? Typed?</p>
<p>I’m in the exact same position. My AP Euro teacher has killed us with DBQs, I think we’ve had at least 7 or 8 practice ones by now and we’re constantly having to grade old released ones to see what we should and should not do. I get that we have to understand the formatting of a DBQ and that it is the most important essay of the 3, but I just really wish my teacher had given us more FRQs. We’ve only done 2 the entire year and both of those were first semester. At least this past week we’ve been doing graphic organizers which are essentially FRQ outlines but still I’m nervous.</p>
<p>In any case, I’ve been studying Princeton Review for the past month and this weekend I’ve been hitting Princeton Review hard. Also, I don’t know if anyone knows about the site Shmoop or not, but it’s a very popular AP site at my school. It has every AP subject and it’s just a very different approach to studying and it’s helped me a lot. It even gives you a diagnostic exam and tells you what it thinks you’re going to get on a scale of 1-5. I don’t know how accurate its predictions are seeing as it told me consistently a score of 4 and I know that’s not gonna happen at all, but we’ll see I guess!! Good luck to everyone on Wednesday!!</p>
<p>My teacher has given us a million DBQs but not a single FRQ! But I guess it’s ok since only 3 people out of 12 in the class are taking the exam because everyone in my underachieving school has this weird mentality of not taking AP exams.</p>
<p>So I missed a lot over the year and I just got the Crash Course eBook and I’m gonna try and read over it like 3 times before the test. So far I’m 2/3 of the way through my first read and it’s helping SO MUCH. </p>
<p>Update: just got a 62/80 on a released Euro MC woohoo!</p>
<p>@yayitsme123 crash course is very good. I only used crash course to study last year, read it about twice, got a 5. Good luck!</p>
<p>@SaraCo My DBQs? They’re five paragraphs. Intro, Group 1, 2, 3, Conclusion. We’ve only handwritten them and they’re between 1-2 pages. </p>
<p>Thank you Trudy!</p>
<p>Are your FRQs a similar length?</p>
<p>Is ap achiever the best review tool? That’s what I’ve heard from a lot of people who took the course before…</p>
<p>My teacher actually made us get AP achiever. It’s a very helpful book because it covers the social and modern aspects more than other guides do. However it sometimes gets a bit too specific, but the practice tests are the most “AP like” that there are. </p>
<p>How are you guys studying for tomorrow? I was trying to read crash course again but I gave up hahaha so I’m just gonna quiz myself on the key terms/people/treaties in crash course and look at some free response :)</p>
<p>I need to retread margin notes on my book.
Reread past FRQs, is that helpful???</p>
<p>I don’t think crash course will help much this year. College Board has starting including many more post 1950 and social questions rather than political ones. </p>
<p>@1golfer1 well that’s kind of a bummer but whatever I think I’m good either way. They say it’s half and half pre-napoleon and post-napoleon</p>
<p>My book splits it before and after the French R. So give about 10 years.</p>
<p>Goodness. My test is in a fee hours. Any chance at a Hitler/Mussolini question. Hopefully nothing on those dang Habsburgs.</p>