<p>I just laughed because her name has "mom" in it. No big deal, I just thought it was funny.</p>
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<p>No, I didn't. Some classes are more demanding than others. For instance, I spent 15 minutes a day, only on weekdays, doing AP Statistics (not counting 50 minute class periods). I also did AP Euro History and AP Psychology without taking the courses, and just studying out of prep books for a week before the test. Most AP courses aren't that demanding, and to be honest, not even APUSH is.</p>
<p>Probably half of that 18 hours/week I spent on USH was not because I had to in order to do well in the class, but because I thoroughly enjoyed doing it. I'm a history buff, and I just enjoy learning history. I would take 5-6 pages of notes on a chapter, typed up, which were so detailed, when classmates asked to see my notes they usually handed them right back, saying: "Wow, your notes are more thorough than the textbook." They were. I did my own research about the events referred to in the textbook, and added all kinds of unnecessesary details and trivia in there. I didn't have to do it, but I wanted to. It made me happy.</p>
<p>I probably could've easily gotten A's with 30 minutes a night of studying for that class. </p>
<p>Now, there was one AP class where I really did <em>have</em> to work that hard in order to do well in it. My Senior Year. I really wanted to get Calculus under my belt. But Calc AB wouldn't fit into my schedule. So I took Calc BC -- without having taken AB.</p>
<p>Basically, I had to teach myself an entire year of Calculus along the way. Oh, and here's the best part: I was taking Pre-calculus concurrent with Calc BC. So I didn't even have Pre-calc under my belt, and here I was teaching myself Calc AB while learning Calc BC. It wasn't easy.</p>
<p>Now that was a class I easily spent 3 hours a night on, every weeknight. And I really had to do it. Thank goodness the other 6 AP classes I took were easy enough for me that I had that kind of time to spend on one class. </p>
<p>So to answer your question, no. Some AP classes demand hours a night, some demand minutes, and some are so undemanding I could study them out of a book for a week and get a 4 on the AP test.</p>
<p>But what I'm trying to get at is that you need to do whatever it takes for you to do well. What a course demands in terms of time commitment varies from person to person. Some people in my Calculus situation could've studied for 10 minutes and did just as well as I did, because they have the talent with math. </p>
<p>It all depends on you.</p>
<p>But I really don't know too many people who could've done well in AP U.S History studying 6 hours the night before a test. US History is one of the more demanding AP courses, and honestly, any course that involves lots of reading should not be crammed, ever. 1 hour of reading a night is far more beneficial than 6 hours in one night. </p>
<p>But if you do try spreading your reading out daily and still come out with subpar grades after a few weeks, be prepared to accept that you may have to put more time into the class, period. You just might need to spend lots of time on History, like I did on Calculus. And there's nothing wrong with that. </p>
<p>Sometimes there really are no shortcuts, and hard work is the best route.</p>
<p>Yeah I'd have to agree, you're not spending enough time. You need to spend AT LEAST 2 hours a day on APUSH.</p>
<p>You need to understand how the teacher tests, like does he/she get the test questions directly from the book (most have accompanying CDs that have test questions), or do they make up their own questions? </p>
<p>You have to study appropriately, I had the highest grade in my APUSH class, but the teacher was horrid, and her tests were all from the book. There was a big disparity between me and my friends in terms of grades since they depended more on the classroom teaching, something she couldn't provide. I even told them about the CD that came with the book and to read the book itself, but they insisted on taking better notes instead. Their loss.</p>
<p>Note: I tried to compensate for the lack of teaching by reading an APUSH study guide, but there was so much to learn that I just pretty much gave up (but I did learn quite a bit in the time I tried). I ended up with a 3.</p>
<p>"Yeah I'd have to agree, you're not spending enough time. You need to spend AT LEAST 2 hours a day on APUSH."</p>
<p>Ha.</p>