<p>I am planning on taking these three tests. Are there any advice or tips that will be useful? What book did you guys use? Which are the hardest? How did you guys study exactly? What scores did you get?</p>
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<p>APUSH is definitely hard due to the workload.
Make sure to get Crash Course–definitely a life saver.
I also read through AMSCO.
I got a 5 on the exam.</p>
<p>I took APUSH last year and got a 4. History is my worst and least favorite subject, so I was fine with that. I remember thinking I knew absolutely nothing on the multiple choice, but that the free response questions were fine. I didn’t study anything but class notes.
I took AP Econ this year but only took the micro test because I wasn’t very good at macro and probably wouldn’t have gotten credit for it. I thought micro was pretty easy and got a 5, but other people thought it was hard. People who took macro thought it was easy when they took it, but then everyone got low scores (the score breakdown shows that the whole country did poorly on macro). I didn’t use a study book, but did a lot of looking around of study guides online about a week before the test and found a really good, consolidated guide.</p>
<p>What is that ‘consolidated’ guide?</p>
<p>I took AP Euro this year. It was somewhat difficult, but I still managed to get through it. If you use the Modern European History book by Viault, and study it thoroughly, as well as pay attention in class, you should be more than fine. I basically just studied by reviewing as much material as I could and taking a lot of practice MCs. If you don’t get good writing practice through the course at school, I would suggest doing that independently. I got a 5 on the exam.</p>
<p>APush is cake but lots of work. If you are a history buff, a quick review before the test should suffice (pretty awesome curve). I got a 5 this year.</p>
<p>What books did you guys use?</p>
<p>For APUSH, if your teacher does not go over it in class, GO OVER IT YOURSELF.</p>
<p>The 2011 exam’s DBQ was about Nixon’s administration. Most people in my class bombed it because the teacher didn’t cover it. I got lucky, because that’s one of my favorite eras in history to read about.</p>
<p>I took all 3 topics. Euro is very detail oriented, so definitely get a good review book and know the details. I remember art coming into play a bit so know art, architecture, and things of that nature. US was easier in my mind, but again know the finer details, like certain presidents and what they tried to accomplish. For both these tests, practice essay writing. 50% of the test involves these, so work hard to having flowing essays. AP Macro is very graph and policy oriented, so know the major graphs like AD/AS and MS. The major policies like Fiscal and monetary play heavy as well. Hope this helped. I got 5s on Euro and US and a 4 on macro.</p>
<p>I never took AP Econ, but I personally think AP Euro is harder than APUSH.</p>
<p>Oh boy. Ap Econ (both) was brutal. I had a really bad teacher though… He didn’t teach us anything</p>
<p>APUSH is very general with its DBQ’s. If you go over 15 sets of the FRQ’s throughout the year and before you move on in the unit you know you can answer them earnestly, you’ll do great for the FRQ’s of the exam. </p>
<p>There’s three levels of responses</p>
<p>1-4: Can’t write, doodles, botching the history so bad elmo would puke</p>
<p>5-6: Competent, if you write a simple essay with a clear thesis and some info </p>
<p>7-9: you actually learn the material ← thats a good one try that and you can write effectively. </p>
<p>MC’s are extremely easy, read the crash course book </p>
<p>I took in 2011 and got a 4… it was probably 85% of my score was from MC’s i bomed the FRQ’s cept for the nixon one ;D you won’t get that lucky.</p>
<p>See if you can find a place to print out the FRQ’s (maybe 10 years worth?) and organize them by era. (expensive as hell, but WELL worth it.)</p>
<p>I did this for AP US Gov, and a month before i went through them all (print the answers too) and graded/corrected. Got a 5, aced the FRQ’s cept for one part of question 3 and one part of question 4 lol</p>
<p>Micro study guide: <a href=“http://www.fvhs.com/core/business/cuecards.pdf[/url]”>http://www.fvhs.com/core/business/cuecards.pdf</a>
You don’t really need the first page, but I found the rest really useful!
Also, here’s a link to a thread in which people posted study guides they used: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/921322-ap-cram-packets-list-yours-here-12.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/921322-ap-cram-packets-list-yours-here-12.html</a>
Be wary of them because random people posted them, but I’m sure some of them are good.</p>