<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I'm in a bit of a mess! Our AP World History and AP Econ. class havn't finished the textbooks. I can probably finish both within 10 days, but should I??? Or should I instead start on PR, Kaplan review books???</p>
<p>Start on the RV Books, and study them carefully, since textbooks are filled with a lot of fluff, and the review books are all the things that you need to know (at least the good review books.) Just make sure that you study the review book carefully, not allowing any fact to slip. Then take as many practice problems and practice tests as possible. You can even create outlines from the review book to constantly read over the facts quickly and efficiently over and over again.</p>
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<p>This isn't always necessary. Barron's books tend to have a lot of extra information. Basically, it's good to know this information, but it isn't necessary. The problem is that it isn't always easy to discriminate between the useful stuff and the extras...</p>
<p>Yeah, but it all depends upon what score you want. If you want the 5, than just about all the facts in the review books are necessary to know well, since talking about the more peculiar ones in an essay will distinguish a paper from all the others and thus boost the score tremendously. If your just looking to pass with a 3, than when you say "it isn't necessary" is true. I was just assuming that the original poster wanted to get a 5--most CC posters do after all, it is a well known reputation.</p>
<p>for world history, just get the princeton review book, read it once, then take and memorize both practice tests. As long as you have a basic overview of the material, most of the multiple choice questions are common sense. The dbq will be no problem as long as you know the format, and you get to choose between a few topics for the change over time and comparative, so as long as you know most of the material, a 5 is easily obtainable.</p>
<p>nyjunior: What you're saying depends on the exams. For APUSH DBQs, it's obviously really good to include outside information that you can only know through the memorization of facts. In other exams, such as psychology, it isn't necessary at all. If you are asked, for example, to state the negative effects of diagnostic labeling, all they expect from you is to state the negative effects of diagnostic labeling. Nothing more.</p>
<p>And also, like I said, one should learn to discriminate between the useful and the useless information. Following the AP psychology example: Knowing that Freud was a key component in the creation of the Psychoanalytic perspective is crucial, but knowing the name of an obscure psychologist that conducted an experiment that had little or no important and useful results is not.</p>
<p>That's true, but I just thought that since in APUSH outside info is good, it would also be good in AP World History.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I am taking AP Psych next year, so I want to know how you like the class. I've heard it is a really fun class (might just be our AP Psych teacher though) with pretty easy AP exams. The only bad thing I have heard is memorizing all the components of the brain.</p>
<p>AP psych is a really interesting class. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. When it comes to the parts of the brain, it may be kind of tiresome and annoying, but it isn't too hard. If you actively memorize everything about a week before the exam, you should expect no trouble. And really it isn't that hard for a lot of the stuff... Memorizing the parts of a neuron is extremely easy, but the lobes of the brain can be slightly annoying (some things appear in a certain lobe on the right hemisphere, but don't appear in that same lobe on the left hemisphere), but other than that it's pretty easy. Most of the parts have distinct functions so there isn't really any overlap. You should have no trouble. And also, I highly recommend it because it's interesting, and it helps you to understand some of the stuff you might not have understood before, particularly with various disorders (for example, everyone's heard of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but not everyone knows exactly what it is, why it happens, etc.). Good luck!</p>