AP Tips - Self Study?

I took AP US Gov & AP Lit last year. However, i didn't take the AP tests, since an unprecedented emergency came up at the last moment.

Anyhow, AP classes are not very hard. If you are moderately intelligent and highly motivated, achieving good grades and getting 5's is entirely possible. I have to say, AP Gov isn't a class you can take and skate by. Since i have good memory, i usually memorize my teacher's lectures. Taking notes can help, but usually i get distracted by my mildly messy handwriting. When studying for exams, i like to take my notes and re-read them. I've read that re-writing notes helps too, but it didn't for me. I found it to be a huge waste of time. Draw maps, use flash cards, etc.

Compared to AP Gov, AP world history is WAY easier. I found the curriculum to be more simple - more lectures, power points, busy work. All this kept me busy, but not stressed. Just pay attention in class.

Books for getting 5's on the AP exams - Barron's (very helpful), Princeton Review (moderately helpful). Otherwise, i have no other recommendations. Sparknotes is a good website, but nothing too rigorous.

I wish you the best of luck. Message me if you need help

I took this class final 12 months as a sophomore, and i got a 3 on the scan, which shows that it is an highly hard scan (no strain haha) to pass, for the reason that I studied like crazy and did all of the work within the type. It is one of the hardest exams to take, when you consider that unlike apush, where you most effective need to gain knowledge of like 200 years of history, in euro you must gain knowledge of because the like 800s years of historical past. The more than one option part is pretty handy, the DBQ varies, on the grounds that some years its very effortless at the same time others (like just a few years ago it was once about exercises for the period of a time period) are extremely tough, and the free response are tough as well on account that you don't have any references and all of it comes from what you've gotten studied. The object that hit me hardest this year was the free response part, considering the fact that all the questions have been tremendous rough. However if you learn really tough with all the review books and relatively study the historical past, then that you may pass((: