<p>How difficult is self-studying APUSH? </p>
<p>(I have the AMSCO book.)</p>
<p>Shouldn’t be that bad, as long as you have a good prep book you should be fine.</p>
<p>The test itself isn’t hard at all really as long as you know some of the trends throughout US History and have your chronological order of events fine.</p>
<p>I took the class in my school, but just studied the day before the test. I never really followed along with the Teacher’s lectures in class, and just read my notes at home. For the actual test I started studying a week before the test around an hour a day, and crammed until 3 A.M. the day of the test to make sure I had everything down, and it worked-Got a 5.</p>
<p>The information isn’t really hard to understand or apply, so as long as you just know what happens, you can easily write a DBQ/Essay over the topics and will ace the MC part of the test.</p>
<p>Find the book “Crash Course”. I think it’s by REA. After you have read AMSCO, read Crash Course- which pulls together info about certain topics such as Women’s history, Blacks in US History, Supreme Court cases, and Native Americans. The author has analyzed the AP exams and tells you which topics are most likely to be covered on the exam.</p>
<p>very easy. Its all facts. Don’t even bother taking the class at your school. The teacher will just confuse you and load you up with busy work. You already have all the resources to get a 5 on the exam on your own. It is the same for all other history exams (ie. euro,world etc.)</p>
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<li>read the textbook</li>
<li>understand the exam.</li>
<li>read the review book</li>
<li>practice simulations (ie. doing MC tests/writing essays/reading essays etc.)</li>
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<p>The AP exams that you might actually want to take the class for would probably be the languages.</p>
<p>Lots of stuff can be made easier if you know about the the context. Like, if it asks about something and mentions “Populists loved gold money” then you can eliminate said answer.</p>