TIPS FOR TAKING APUSH
After (somehow) surviving apush I would just like to voice my thoughts, and hopefully, this might help some other people out.
First off: this is a tough class, there’s a reason why passing the exam gives you so many college credit hours. From my knowledge, this is one of the most content-filled AP classes there is: you have a lot you need to memorize for the test and it comes up on you quick.
If your teacher doesn’t have you write practice long essays/free responses, short answers, and DBQ’s, make sure you are testing yourself at home and really making sure you know the content. My teacher actually hosted two Saturday study sessions the weeks before the test and a majority of the students went in to review both of those days.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE CONSTANTLY REVIEWING OLD MATERIAL: I cannot stress this enough. The 1800′s are going to take up most the year since a LOT of stuff happened in that era, try to memorize as much as you can and don’t lose focus because it takes a lot to catch back up.
If you take a test on each chapter search, “Chapter __ APUSH test” on Quizlet, and all of the flashcards will be pretty much if not exactly the same as on the actual test, but make sure that you are studying your chapter and not one from the other commonly used textbook.
My friend and I made a HUGE study guide for everything we learned in AP on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/a/croslex.org/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQZ5U9GY8_dcbWqzmbcepwwenAWWmn9yw7Dro4s3lt9Ao7fUB2kDeeUdNOv7yQ2oj5a-UzTL-BBa_lR/pub
Lastly, if you need any help studying, just message me! I would be glad to help and give you some pointers. I have loads and loads of presentations that we made over the course of the year that I would be happy to send you :)
