Wooohooo! 92 on my first test! And my AMSCO book is coming soon! I find US History pretty interesting actually I’m really enjoying the class.</p>
Ive been in school for like 5 weeks XD</p>
APUSH is actually really fun. Im taking apus/ap eng lang combined tho so its super interesting. So instead of a 90min class and finishing it in 1 semester, we have the whole year. Like im in ush for 45min and then we switch to eng for 45min. The work is spread out really nicley so instead of like a chapter to read a night…i have 2 nights to read it. </p>
Wow i just ranted about that…sorrt XD</p>
But i got a 98 on my 1st test in there 
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Fav quote from class" america-we will kill you in your sleep on christmas"</p>
… my apush class is 100 minutes for both semesters. It’s the only class in the school that they make you take both semesters (block schedule). Waste of time in my opinion</p>
Ugh failed my first APUSH test…I got a 56%. What are the chances that I will be able to get an A (87%) by the end of the first semester? =/</p>
Well first of all, ask yourself why did you fail? Did you predict a failure/poor grade? Was it because you didn’t study as much as you should have?</p>
Now that you know what the tests are like, study appropriately. As for whether you’ll get exactly an 87%, that’s a question for your teacher not us. To answer that we would need to know the grading system (points, weights, etc), the number of assignments, tests, etc. But from my experiences, it sounds doable.</p>
Don’t be so down, there are many factors that could apply to this Perhaps you haven’t gotten back into the efficient reader mindset, or the AP mindset, or maybe your test-taking skills fell a bit in the summer. I’m not sure about the moving up percentages, since it’s pretty much history, you just have to keep studying and work harder. I have a similar story…</p>
Today we took our Chapter 10 test, which I believe was on the whole Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, and all that…I got a C, not the best, I know.</p>
Here’s my plan on attack for the rest of the year: Take key themes as notes, take some clever questions and answer them myself, and make a lot of analogies. Oh, and read a chapter ahead. </p>
Good luck to all! Keep us updated.</p>
P.S.: I might get the DH review book this weekend!</p>
How do you start reviewing for the APUSH exam if you haven’t gone through all of the information in class? When do you start reviewing and preparing?</p>
I would start as soon as I start covering WWI, it just seems like a good time. Or before that, reviewing doesn’t mean you have to cover EVERYTHING and then study that, you REVISIT and REINFORCE the material you were presented to before. I plan to prepare, regardless if we hit WWI or not, in Christmas Break.</p>
Why are people buying the AMSCO when it costs 50$ and I can find REA for 5$ used? I don’t understand, is it that much better? or am I just looking at the wrong site to order it from?</p>
^Order the Amsco book from the Amsco website for $17.</p>
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because amsco is an awesome textbook whereas REA is a $5 quick guide before the AP that Direct Hits has all the information of</p>
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thanks for finding the answers to the AMSCO questions. I was freaking out about no answers earlier!</p>
so what review books do you guys recommend?
i have an old one from around 2007 (hand-me down) its from rea
i doubt it’s enough so i’m gonna buy a new one soon.
already took two quizzes in apush. im doing alright so far (:</p>
AMSCO and REA act like textbooks.
REA crash course and Direct Hits are supplemental/for review</p>
personally, i liked amsco. didn’t read american pageant at all and just read amsco a week before the ap exam and got a 5. basically, amsco + listening to teacher’s lectures sometimes helped a lot :D</p>
My APUSH teacher is such a difficult teacher! There’s two APUSH teachers at our school: mine, whose class is supposedly the hardest class on campus, and the other teacher, whose class is literally one of the easiest. It’s seriously day and night, which is so unfair.
Needless to say, I studied so much for my second test and still only pulled a C. She’s insane! Last year, there were no As in her classes out of 2 whole periods yet mostly everyone got a 5.
With Euro, I was able to pull an A and a 5, but I’m really scared that I won’t get an A in APUSH. Ahh I don’t like this too much! </p>
/rant over</p>
I must say, my APUSH class is pretty difficult, and I’ve not had a hard history class in a while. Basically, we are expected to read the chapter in the weekend and take notes, then he reviews it quickly from power points, and EACH and EVERY CLASS there is a quiz or test.</p>
I don’t like the format of the questions, but I’ll manage. Also, no FRQ/DBQ practice yet, so I’m on my own on that one…</p>
Everyone taking the class at my school is wondering if it is even possible to get an A! My teacher is such a harsh grader I don’t know what I’m going to do. My poor GPA… No matter what I do or how hard I try, it’s B work. Same goes for almost everyone. I’m not a fan.</p>
^ same here! My teacher’s insane! We have so much work and she literally grades everything on correctness. And her tests are WAY harder than the AP test would ever be.
Ugh. And the worst part is that the other APUSH teacher makes the class so easy that almost everyone gets an A. For my teacher last year, not a single person in her two classes got an A.</p>
Don’t worry about the grade, worry about getting a 4 or 5 on the AP test. And that can be done if you put the work into reading AMSCO and DH from cover to cover no matter how bad your class/teacher is.</p>
Also, don’t listen to the DBQ predictions the night before the exam. They will lead you in the wrong direction. I studied The Gilded Age, American Imperialism, all of that good stuff and it turned out to be Nixon. Nixon was probably the least predicted topic, and many people doubted that the Collegeboard would pick a topic so recent for the DBQ, but they did.</p>
And it was probably the reason why I didn’t get a 5.</p>