<p>Did anyone else do APUSH and Euro today? if so, how did it go?</p>
<p>For me, it was fine. I'll admit, by the last FRQ in Euro, my hand hurt and my handwriting wasn't great. It also sucked not getting lunch. I had to leave APUSH early because it was going to end at 11:58, but I had already finished.</p>
<p>Overall, it was OK.</p>
<p>What was your experience?</p>
<p>Do you think you would have done better if you had taken them seperate years?</p>
<p>For me: No. I'm pretty sure I'm getting 5s on both (sounds cocky, I know)</p>
<p>^I also did APUSH and AP Euro today. I’m only the third student in the my school’s history to have done so.</p>
<p>What was your experience?
Honestly, it really wasn’t that bad. Maybe that’s because I enjoy history, but still. For US History, AMSCO was amazing! It was really concise and I owned the multiple choice because of it. I also had an amazing teacher who made both of the classes really enjoyable. At my school, few people take AP classes, even fewer students take the AP Exam, and only every couple of years does a student take two exams on the same day. That said, when some of my classmates found out I was taking both exams, they said they would pray for me. I’m sure God answered the prayers because I’m expecting a 5 for both exams. Anyway, the exams themselves weren’t too bad. The DBQs were meh. My hand really hurt after finishing my Euro test because of all the writing that I had to do. I think I wrote over twenty pages combined for both exams. Hopefully, I got a 5. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I didn’t get a chance to eat lunch, so that sucked. But I didn’t really need it. By the time I finished my first exam, I was too focused to sit down and eat. I didn’t have much time anyway.</p>
<p>Do you think you would have done better if you had taken them separate years?
I asked myself this question after I took the exam, and honestly I don’t think I would have scored better had I done it my senior or sophomore year (I’m a junior). I would have senioritis senior year and not study, and a year ago as a sophomore I probably wouldn’t have put in the time to study like I did this year as a Junior. If you’re motivated, driven, and think that you have the capacity to take both exams and do well, then go for it.</p>
<p>Experience:
Oh god. It was horrible. I only had 2hr and a half of sleep today because I was hella studying. Luckily I was still awake throughout my exams. I had two granola bars as food throughout the day. No breakfast and no lunch. I was nervous on both exams, but they turn out well. US FRQ - yay, hella good. I mention Leave It to Beaver, a TV show I constantly reference in my APUSH class. Euro FRQ - DBQ was difficult to group. Although I wrote like 6 essays, my hand didn’t hurt since I’m used to writing a lot. The other two, I wish I had studied more. I know I got 5 on both exams. MC was easy and I did hella well on the DBQ.</p>
<p>Do you think you would have done better if you had taken them separate years?
Probably. I would have done way better on AP European History this year if I had studied more or I haven’t been lazy due to constant distractions. I hate that I will being getting a 5-7 on Part B and Part C essays since I wanted to be extremely informative in the essays. I wish I had done it sophomore year since there was a lot of free time.</p>
<p>My experience wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting. It helped that there were 7 of us taking both at my school, so I wasn’t doing it alone. We were expecting to have to be peeled off the floor by the end of the day, but I didn’t feel nearly as dead as I was expecting. My hand didn’t even hurt that bad, which surprised me. </p>
<p>Sadly, I’m not feeling nearly as confident with my scores as you guys. I think I could have gotten a 4 on US, depending on how the essays are scored. Euro was kind of a mess for me, I’ll be lucky if I scraped a 3. No matter how much I study for Euro, I just have trouble absorbing the material, and always seem to study the wrong things.<br>
I’m not sure how the way my teachers score my essays compares to how these essays will be scored, so I suppose I could be surprised, and do better than I thought, but I could also do even worse. I guess I’ll just have to find out in July…</p>
<p>I think I would have done better on US if I hadn’t taken Euro, but I think I’d have even less time to study for Euro next year, so I’m glad I got them both over with. I’m really hoping to be done with history for good now.</p>
<p>It truly was not terrible. I told a friend right after the test that those 8 full hours were not nearly as bad as the 5 hour SAT, mainly because the SAT is just so boring. </p>
<p>I thought the content in the multiple choice was really just easy. I mean, I skipped about 2 for each exam, and probably missed a few others, but they were simply easy compared to practice tests in review books. I self-studied European History, but I thought that my Princeton Review book was more than enough to achieve a 5 on the exam alone, although I’m skeptical as to whether I got one. I had to do some major bs-ing for the DBQ, and threw in some random facts to make it seem as if I wholeheartedly knew what I was talking about. It could work. We’ll see.</p>
<p>APUSH was easy. Especially the essays. Like tremendously easy. But in general, history is my thing. I love it, yet I have to admit that I believe they are the most exhausting exams. I had to dig into that inner resevoir for the final FRQ on the Euro exam…just keep writing.</p>
<p>My only complaint is that my writing hand hurt, but I didn’t feel too rushed writing the essays-there was just so much to write.</p>
<p>Overall, it may have helped a tiny bit to have taken both, in terms of knowledge and analytical thinking. However, I think growing up in America, APUSH may be inherently easier because more things are familiar.</p>
<p>APUSH was very easy, I finished with time to spare. Euro went fine until FACK FRQ. I managed to pull out essays that either win points for conciseness or bomb horribly. My hand hurt like hell but hopefully my MC and DBQ buoy me to a 5.</p>