<p>How can I finish it all? It is around 200 pages and I don't know what exactly is going to be tested.. How would you approach this? They just said that we are going to be taking an exam on it. Should I just read my AMSCO book instead?? The good thing is I have all day to read but should I take notes or something so I can review it before the exam? I don't know which way is more efficient since I have other hw too...</p>
<p>which book is it? some books have chapter summaries online. my book, America Past and Present, has summaries and practice quizzes etc that prove to be very useful. <a href="http://wps.ablongman.com/long_divine_appap_7%5B/url%5D">http://wps.ablongman.com/long_divine_appap_7</a></p>
<p>hehe i still have not even halfway finsihed the summer homework for apush. School starts in 4 days.</p>
<p>Do you think the summaries are enough? I'm reading Created Equal...</p>
<p>-- The summaries for my book are only 2 sentences long. LOL</p>
<p><a href="http://www.apnotes.net%5B/url%5D">www.apnotes.net</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.course-notes.org/US_History/%5B/url%5D">http://www.course-notes.org/US_History/</a></p>
<p>it doesn't matter what book you have. you'll be tested over american history. the facts (hopefully) will be the same despite differing authors.</p>
<p>If I want a 100%, should I just read my text book then? I just don't know the format of exams.. like what we'll be tested on. What have you guys been tested on? Dates, people, events?</p>
<p>I took AP History after two genuine weeks of review, without taking the class.</p>
<p>=] It's not so bad. Barron's AP US History notecards really helped out as a supplement to a general textbook. And 200 pages isn't that bad.</p>
<p>I have a 4 page paper to write for APUSH tonight, fun</p>
<p>Should I take notes though? I don't know which things I should write down...</p>
<p>Same, indianbasketball, heh...oops?</p>
<p>I'd write the notes if they actually help you. Do 50 pages a day.</p>
<p>Don't textbooks contain a lot of superfluous information though? Would it be better off reading the summaries for each chapter if provided? Would I still ace my exams?</p>
<p>I'd suggest splitting up your work into sections each day. Do ten pages while you're eating breakfast, ten pages when you're eating lunch, ten minutes at some point in the afternoon, and ten pages before you go to bed. Add in some extra pages whenever you can!</p>
<p>The test will probably be pretty easy if it is your first one. You should probably expect most questions to be on vocab, people, or events. There will also be a couple "concept" questions (our tests were fact-based to start off, and became progressively more conceptual as the course went on)... my teacher hated dates, though. I doubt that you'll need to know any, except years (year when Jamestown was colonized, years of the French-Indian War, years of the Revolutionary War).</p>
<p>Muhaha, I'm SO done with APUSH it's not even funny. I remember falling asleep over that stuff last year. We had pop quizzes and small tests almost every day, so what I'd do every night is skim over the headings to gain a basic idea of what the chapter is about, and then read the first and last lines of every paragraph to get the gist of the important stuff. If I had time, I'd read the superfluous stuff 10-20 minutes before class. With practice, you can skim through pages and have the important dates and people jump out at you. There's always good old fashioned note taking, but I'd suggest buddy system as a better alternative. Have a friend or several friends split up the work. Each of you can take some notes, and then have a conversation about the material. It definitely helps when my friends and I did that before AP testing. You'd be amazed at how inside jokes can help you memorize facts, even if it does make you suddenly burst out laughing in the middle of the AP tests... refrain from doing that... :P</p>
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<p>school starts in 4 days, and i didnt even start the summer assignment yet.
26 questions that require a 4 paragraph response and 2 major essays.</p>
<p>... 200 pages of reading?
shoot me</p>
<p>So basically, if I have time, I should go ahead and read the textbook right? If I don't then I should just skin or read summaries?</p>
<p>3 charts and 3 2-page essays, 10 questions (each like half a page) and 2 chapters. 4 days lets see if i can finsih it all on labor day! lol</p>