What is the best general strategy for independent self-studying?

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<p>Strategy 1:</p>

<p>You have 4 months till May, and you have 3 AP's you want to self-study. You order Barron's/Princeton Review/some other book from Amazon/eBay and you read 10 pages from each book each day, spending about 20 minutes-2 hours to read the 30 pages, for about 3 weeks, so that you will have finished all 3 books by the end of the 3 weeks. This strategy emulates a class in school.</p>

<p>Strategy 2:</p>

<p>You have 4 months till May, and you have 3 AP's you want to self-study. You order Barron's/Princeton Review/some other book from Amazon/ebay and you proceed to read about 10 pages a day out of the same book for about 3 weeks, and proceed to read the 2nd and then the 3rd book in the same fashion.</p>

<p>Strategy 3: Insert Strategy Here</p>

<p>If you don't agree with these strategies, what others do you recommend (doesn't have to be relevant to this type of studying)?</p>

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<p>Read 1-2 hrs during night and more on weekends. Simple.</p>

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<p>Instead of buying books get them through your local library.
Also settle for one AP book as your main book. Try to get the
MCs and work through them. Time yourself and work through the
free response sections.</p>

<p>Stretch your schedule over multiple weeks rather than cram. Like
an hour every other day or so and 2 on the weekends.</p>

<p>Detrmine your weak areas and use the AP book (BArrons, PR, etc) that
seems to have the most pertinent material. I have found PR to typically
be easier to sue as text and Barrons as the exam for APs.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>My strategy for self-studying AP Human Geography this semester -</p>

<p>“Are you serious? AP Human Geography exam is tomorrow? Guess I better start reading!”</p>

<p>Meh, I will probably start reading Barron’s AP Human Geography about a month and half before the exam, make some flashcards, do some mc and free response, and get a 5. Hopefully.</p>

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<p>I think it really depends on the subject..</p>

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<p>If you have to ask…</p>

<p>It sounds like you’re making it awfully complicated. You know how you study best, and that’s the approach you should take. Opinions given here are only telling you how the poster studies best. For example “the exam is tomorrow?” actually works for the right person.</p>

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<p>What subjects are you considering self studying uber?</p>

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<p>Hey those are like my exact strategies, but roughly 30% of the time it doesn’t work out. I’d say allot more time in the weekends to study, and on weekdays work on your school/extracurricular activities. Studying 1hr-2hr a day is seriously impossible, so what I’ve done so far is this. I started studying for Ap World on November 14th or so. I completed the Barrons book (roughly 380 pages of content) by December 21st or so- simply by studying every second of thanksgiving break and part of december break. Then I started taking notes on my laptop of each chapter starting December 22nd. At the moment, I’ve taken over 70 pages of notes for half the book, and I feel like i’ve absorbed a lot of information already. Thats pretty tedious, but for APs, taking notes helps assimilate the information quicker and keeps the detail long-lasting (like Juicy Fruit o_0). But seriously if you feel that might be too much (for 3 APs i would think so), I suggest taking advantage of times when you’re not doing much. After school…waiting for bus? Read a page or two. If you have reading time at your school, you’ll get like 5 pages at least every day from school. GOing on a long ride to soccer practice? Psh there u are with 3-5 pages. </p>

<p>Take the initiative and everything will flow well :P</p>

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<p>sorry llpitch, it’s microeconomics, physics B, and statistics</p>

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<p>You’re gonna have to do some pretty good studying for physics B. More than just reading a prep book.</p>

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<p>So if you had to choose between Strategy 1 and Strategy 2, which would you choose?</p>

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<p>Have you already registered?</p>

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<p>no, I have not, and i won’t til march.</p>

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<p>So if I follow the strategies you guys recommended, is it better to study for all 3 ap’s at the same time (and repeat the reading once all 3 books are finished), or is it better to start one book and finish it before moving to the next one (again, repeating the cycle after all 3 books are finished).</p>

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<p>3 at the same time. i’m doing the same, only with art history, comparative gov., and psych. believe me, the eyelids get droopy quickly. a fresh topic is like a brain stretch–it just feels good and blocks out some tedium. plus, come exam week there won’t be as much ‘wait, I learned what?’ for the two subjects long crammed and forgotten.
but if you do something like lang/lit or macro/micro econ, do it apart. or else the concepts start merging and getting confusing, so that you end up thinking too much for each one and forgetting exactly what each covers</p>

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<p>how many AP’s should one self study in a year? is six too much?</p>

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<p>six is brutal</p>

<p>3 requires a good amount of time already (1 hour daily)</p>

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<p>why 6 … ? try 2 or if ur desperate for (sth which i still dont get) do 3.
6 is way too much IF you are self-studying !! But not if u are doing them in school and just doing the exams as externals.</p>