<p>Anyone who has taken it before want to help me with anything I need to focus on, etc?
I don't know if I should be scared or not, I have 1 more week to prepare.</p>
<p>To what extent should I know details, presidents and their contributions, etc?</p>
<p>Any tips/suggestions would be great.
I'm using "sat 2 ush for dummies" and kaplan ush 2008-2009</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I took it last year, and it’s pretty hard. I don’t know if you’ve taken the AP US test, but it’s about on a level with that, if not a little harder. That being said, I know I missed quite a few questions, and I still got a 780 Most of the prep I did was with flashcards and my APUSH outlines. In terms of specific things they look for, as far as I can remember, the questions mostly focused on early American history up to the end of WWII, with only a few post WWII questions, and no post watergate questions. Know the important presidents (which basically means forget about anyone in between Johnson and Mckinley), know the important non presidential leaders-women, civil rights, prohibitionists, reformers, etc-, and the important events. There’s more pre-Revolution questions than I thought there would be, and quite a few of the questions were extremely detailed, asking about certain newspapers, book, acts, or presidential policies. </p>
<p>Sorry if this hasn’t been too helpful, but as long as you study, you’ll do fine. And, since I’m just one kid that took the test once, my experience doesn’t define every SAT US test.</p>
<p>Should I be familiar with presidents (American revolution) before and their policies/beliefs ? Also should I worry about Columbus time period and discovery of the America, etc? Thanks that was a very helpful reply</p>
<p>bump top please</p>
<p>if you’re looking for content distribution, this is straight from the cb website:
Political history: 31–35%<br>
Economic history: 13–17%<br>
Social history: 20–24%<br>
Intellectual and cultural history: 13–17%<br>
Foreign policy: 13–17% </p>
<p>Pre-Columbian history to 1789: 20%<br>
1790 to 1898: 40%<br>
1899 to the present: 40% </p>
<p>you should DEFINITELY know each president in relation to events. we dedicated an entire packet to this “presidential credentials”, with a list of events/accomplishments/signficant trends under each president. although you may not be specifically tested on this ("which prez vetoed ‘random event’? <---- you wont get those questions), learning presidencies really helps to organize information in your head.</p>
<p>their personalities and beliefs? not so much.</p>
<p>the precolumbus period is tested, as shown by the distribution, but only slightly. (this is the part that always tripped me though)</p>
<p>when you took it was it 90 or 95 questions?</p>