Enjoy this thread, couldn’t find one on AP hug so I made one.</p>
Hi. Who else hasn’t started studying yet?</p>
I started studying yesterday, so I haven’t really gotten much done in terms of studying for this exam.</p>
Eh, I’ll start in another month XD</p>
I took the exam as a freshman in 2010. Before they even removed the -1/4 point rule, I made a 4 by just reading an old Barron’s book. The test is easy, it really is. Just read a prep book and you should be fine.</p>
Seems so few are going to take this… I don’t know if there’s any need to read some textbooks in addition to Barron?</p>
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I’ll take this exam in Hong Kong. The admission ticket says only several people are taking this… lol Actually I think the HG curve is very lenient so we don’t need to worry too much in addition to reviewing.</p>
I’m taking AP Human Geo and read through Princeton Review. I’m currently reading through Barron’s and wondering how much do I need to study? I feel like taking notes would be overkill, but I am not sure about the difficulty of the exam. Tips? Past experiences? Should I just review definitions? Am I just competing with inexperienced freshmen?</p>
How many MC would I need to get right for a 5?</p>
Im also taking several other AP’s, so I can’t really devote that much time to this. Maybe 5-8 hours in total before the test. Im thinking of powering through the 4 practice tests/ and the 1 practice test online.</p>
@arghwhy</p>
According to the curve, you need to answer around 60% MCs right if you want a 5. Quite lenient.</p>
@jesuschristson</p>
Are you serious??? It’s APHG, not APUSH.</p>
I thought it was 70%?</p>
@Geography23</p>
You know they adjusted the policy so that you won’t be punished for MC wrong answers. Maybe it has gone a little higher since the new policy carried out but still lenient compared to other subjects.</p>
@arghwhy
I took the exam in 2010, before I knew about AP central and past free response questions. My teacher was useless, so I read the Barrons book 2 days before the exam. I thought the multiple choice part of the exam was difficult, and the free-response was easy. I scored a 5, and I know it had to be just after that cutoff. After looking online at other free response questions, I can say that if I had taken any exam other than the 2010 one, I would have failed. The FRQs on the 2010 matched up perfectly with the areas I was strong on, and I probably could not articulate upon any other topics. So my advice is to look at past years’ free response questions and make sure you know how to do them if you want to secure a 5.</p>
I’m taking it too, guys. I’m studying with the Kaplan and it seems good, so far.</p>
I’m going to take it too. I’m a freshman, first AP test, and I’m only starting studying today. I’m using PR…</p>
any predictions for the FRQ’s?</p>
Hey guys Im a freshman. I will taking AP Psych, Macro and Micro before Hug so I should know the format by then. I read the whole PR book one day a few months ago. I will only be studying the day before.</p>
I’m taking it and I haven’t started studying yet. Teacher spent the entire first semester on the Basic Concepts and Population chapters in the Rubenstein book. Now, it’s second semester, a week before the test and we’re rushing through Chapters 13 and 14. I have the Barron’s and I think I’m just going to read through it to study. My friend who took it last year with the same teacher I have now said that the exam was nothing to play with and the only reason she made a five is because she self-studied everything. I’ve almost stopped caring about this exam, truthfully.</p>
<p>Hey - So basically i’m taking AP Human Geo in school but my teacher is a complete idiot and the class is a complete jokeand we haven’t learned anything in school this whole year. I have five days until the AP exam and I have no clue what to do. Should I just read the Barrons? If there is anything else that you guys could tell me to do to help me learn human geo in five days would be greatly appreciated.</p>