<p>Now that everyone here has taken the test, which book do you feel prepared you the best?
I used REA, and I felt somewhat confident in most of my answers, though I felt that there were a lot that I didn't know. Did anyone here use AMSCO? Was it better?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>AP achiever
its the book i use for my APUSH class</p>
<p>I used Crash Course. It was awesome. Lots of great hits. Only a few misses. Based upon the composite list on the other thread I think I made an 800. Now its back to studying for APUSH. Im using Crash Course and Amsco.</p>
<p>I didn’t really review for the SAT or AP tests yet. I just used my memory from AMSCO and the American Pageant from when I read it right before my unit tests.</p>
<p>Read/Review Crash Course ALOT, and if you do it enough to get ALL of it, you WILL get a 800, or at least a high 700. I only got to read it once, wish I had another go.</p>
<p>Crash Course was outstanding. Definitely agree with The Legend and Old Hickory. Hoping CC comes thru for the APUSH exam. I’m studying my brains out.</p>
<p>Crash Course? like REA? Did you guys use AP or SATII REA?</p>
<p>I think the Amsco book by far is superior.</p>
<p>Unless it asks you a Euro/World history question. The Amsco book does not… talk… at all about either other subject (not even remotely).</p>
<p>Amsco has more material buy Crash Course is much easier to read and covers only material that you need to know for the AP exam. With that in mind the SAT II has some questions that the APUSH exam does not have. So you will run into a few questions that you won’t know from the CC but if you are fine with getting anything >700 then you should be fine just taking 1 or 2 reads of CC.</p>
<p>Which is why, naturally, you read Amsco so you get a 800 on the SAT. Lol</p>
<p>Can’t tell if thats internet sarcasm or not. :(</p>
<p>In AP USH we had Kennedy’s American Pageant. For studying though I ordered the Official SAT study guide for all subject tests (useless), the AP USH study guide by Princeton Review, and a thing of 500 Notecards by Barron’s… If you couldn’t tell, I’m taking the AP test this week. ha</p>
<p>so either AMSCO or CC?</p>
<p>not barrons, kaplan, all that stuff?</p>
<p>okay, any suggestions on which one is better amsco or CC?</p>
<p>I used AMSCO and I felt the test was really REALLY easy. Honestly, I would be surprised if I didn’t get 800. There were only about 3 questions I did not know. My APUSH teacher goes really in depth though, and her cirriculumn actually seems more geared towards the SAT II than the AP test.</p>
<p>I bought Barrons. It was okay. :/</p>
<p>I took a 9th grade Honors US History class and want to study some more. If I use the Crash Course plus some basic knowledge of US History, is an 800 possible?</p>
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<p>It’s more than “basic knowledge.” But Crash Course seems to be really good. Read it twice or something. Haha.</p>
<p>What’s more than basic knowledge? The class I took or the SAT subject test?</p>
<p>The subject test. I am in Honors this year, 2nd highest grade in the class, top participant, and I still thought the test was medium to hard. I can only see the AP kids having an easy time with it, to be honest.</p>
<p>Study, study, study. :)</p>
<p>Well, to be more serious, the AP test is supposedly easier…</p>