<p>Is Larry Krieger's The Essential Content enough to get me a 4 or 5 on the APUSH exam? I've read around and people are usually using The Essential Content and another book, such as AMSCO or REA.</p>
<p>But I'm wondering: is The Essential Content good enough by itself to get a 4 or 5?</p>
<p>Larry Krieger The name itself he is the GOD of writing the AP crash course books, that’s what he is best known for. </p>
<p>1: Get his crash course book, it is a true godsend. </p>
<p>2: I’m not sure of his other books, but from my personal experience… </p>
<p>However you study, for the month before the exam go through 10-15 years of FRQ’s… if you can ponder a quite outline for each essay you know enough material to ace it. </p>
<p>Test yourself on the released MC, it will help tremendously.</p>
<p>Or get lucky with a Nixon and beyond DBQ like i did…</p>
<p>yes, it is. i got a 790 on the subject test and a 5 on the AP having only read that book. I had a class but literally did nothing in it.</p>
<p>I think I should be more specific:
approximately 15 of the 80 MC questions I saw were answered directly in the book (I mean the question itself was written in the book). These questions are generally the obscure questions which, I venture to say, are the most-missed. An example of one (not from the actual test, but for example’s sake) would be “Which of the following was opened by Jane Addams?” and the answer would be Hull House. While most APUS classes focus on the big picture, there are a significant amount of those odd specific questions on the exam. The Essential Content gives you both the big picture and those specific details which are most likely to appear on the exam (the author had clearly performed extensive analysis of past exams to determine what was most likely to appear). The specific details are also of particular use on the essay section, where the readers look for “bing points” in addition to a thoughtful, well-written and thoroughly analytical essay.</p>
<p>Ahh sweet. Thank you! :D</p>