<p>Our class is just getting out of hand. The first two weeks, we actually followed the text by doing about a chapter a day (We are on the block schedule, so we started in mid-January). Then, the teacher suddenly lapses into a mode of super laziness. She just continously assigns projects one right after another without any teaching in between. Her "lectures" consist of getting crap off the internet and reading the wikipedia article. The discussions are farces! We just discuss among ourselves, without any real input from the teacher. Her quizzes come straight from the internet. The tests come straight from the internet. And to add insult to injury, we are only on the period before the civil war, and she decides to fall down the stairs. Now we have a ex-CIA spy as our substitute, and he can't make sense of the incomprehensible garbage she keeps sending us. She told the sub to collect the chapter work that she never handed out! She's expecting to be gone throughout the break, and the APs are only a week after the break. We're screwed. The class has deteriorated into people playing the 'weiner' game and finding ways to get around the school firewall. </p>
<p>May 5th is going to be a terrible day. Worse, I have the European History exam that day as well. Lord have mercy.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher is kinda bad too. He is an ex-marine who basically watches "Futurama",The Simpsons and Family Guy and plays games on the internet while we work on worksheets.
Last year out of 38 students who took APUSH, only two ppl had 5's and there were 2 ppl with 1's.</p>
<p>APUSH is the hardest class at our school, besides AP Physics and all that jazz. People end up getting C's in the class, but still get 4's and 5's on the AP exam. From what I've heard, the 18 chapters of summer reading plus the DBQ's and Degler and all that reading plus writing is just killer.</p>
<p>our teacher is horrible too - he just expects you to read everything in the textbook, and doesn't teach anything in class. in class, all he does is put us into groups to discuss what we read in the textbook, but no one reads it so we just waste classtime doing nothing. i miss having those teachers that actually teach and give lecture notes and stuff. i dread may 5th like none other.</p>
<p>Still, you gotta just suck it up. My AP Euro History teacher was terrible, and I learned NOTHING. I only realized that a week before the AP when I studied with people from a different class with a different teacher. So I just self-studied and went from my most likely 1 had I not studied to an actual 4. You just gotta get a book (preferrably REA or PR) and read through it. If you read about 40 pgs a night, which isn't hard, you'll get it done before the AP. Also, do the tests.</p>
<p>honestly, i know how much we all love to blame the teacher, but you can still pass the exam without having a good teacher. Last year in ap world what we learned about the teacher's personal life the whole year. Determined to pass i picked up my barrons the weekend before the exam, read it and passed! You still have time so just go get a book and read it, thats what i plan on doing. It takes a lot of discipline but if you put enough effort in, you will most likely pass.</p>
<p>I'm a self study person, my teacher stopped lecturing b/c she said it was stupid for her to just repeat what is in the book right in front of us....so instead, we just read the chapters silently in class and ask her any questions that we have.</p>
<p>I recommend buying a study guide at the bookstore (Barrons and Princeton Review make them, to name a couple). I'm doing that for a couple of my AP classes right now. I recommend that even if you DO have a good teacher, since it's nice to have all the pertinent information condensed and right in front of you.</p>
<p>I had an amazing AP US teacher. 20 people took the test. There were 3 5's, 14 4's and 2 3's... and my school is not overly competitive by any means. I was HORRIBLE at history and still got a 4.</p>