AP CLASSES, Hand down your tips ! Options

[demolished]

Attention AP students!

For those who took AP classes, share you tips AND experiences here! Hopefully, we will not repeat the same mistake as you or have the same regrets!

This thread is designed to help students to developed better habits, good head start, and being more aware throughout the whole school year.

[Crash2]

Be organized. Nothing's worse than not knowing where your homework is or not being able to find your materials to study.

Don't procrastinate. Since AP courses usually are more fast-paced, doing stuff at the last minute will sometimes make you fall behind, creating the snowball effect that's difficult to get out of.

Make sure you'll be dedicated to the course. If you're not up to the work, switch to regular!

Go to tutoring if you don't understand the material. Sometimes going over certain things a second time will help you to understand.

Efficiently manage your time to avoid falling behind.
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I don't know what else right now, but I guess this would be an ok start.

[salcha4u]

^ Man those are lame tips. Here are some real ones:

1. AP World History will kill you. Other AP's aren't that bad I guess...
2. Study groups include more gossiping than studying but at least they are still fun.
3. Cheat as much as you can (not on tests, hw and labs aren't as bad though), it will help your grade.
4. Suck up a lot.
5. Sit next to someone smart in class.
6. Check what your AP exam dates are so in case you have two exams next to each other...you can evenly space out your studying time. Don't learn the hard way. It sucks.
7. Bring a box of tissues to exam day if you have allergies.
8. Bring a box of tissues anyway in case the annoying person next to you has allergies.
9. Go to Costco and buy those huge capuccino powder things so you can make instant caps whenever instead of running to Starbucks all the time.
10. If you are taking AP Bio, the answeres to the worldwide labs that you need to complete are online. Ahahahahaha :)
11. If the person next to you on exam day falls asleep, don't wake them up unless you know that they are dumber than you...you might screw up the grading curve.

Personal experience for all ftw.

[RAWRstephishere]

Just pay attention as much as you can, and do your homework, project and study.

When in doubt.. Copy off of your neighbor, but make sure you know if they studied or not.

[sprezzatura]

10. If you are taking AP Bio, the answeres to the worldwide labs that you need to complete are online. Ahahahahaha :)

Ahh. Thanks! I am taking AP bio in the upcoming school year.

For AP Euro (since it's the only AP test I have taken so far):
1. When your teacher asks you to read the textbook, READ IT.
2. Be ready for participation in class (yeah, it's hard but essential to survival in the classes that are heavily based on participation, but that's how READING THE TEXTBOOK will help you BS better). Usually English and history classes require participation...so it is important.
3. DON'T CRAMP THE NIGHT BEFORE THE AP TEST. But give yourself about 3 weeks to cramp. Haha.
4. Bring several #2 pencils, blue/black pens, and an eraser. The proctors at my school will kill us if we don't have our supplies.
5. Don't ever rewrite the prompt for your thesis statement. You should paraphrase the prompt and incorporate what you are going to write on your 3 body paragraphs.
6. Don't ever start a FRQ/DBQ essay with a rhetorical question.
7. If your teacher assigns you homework, DO IT because AP history classes assign almost no homework.
8. Learn to pace yourself in essays by practice. You have 70 minutes (including 15-minute mandatory reading period for DBQ) to write three essays.
9. Princeton Review and CliffNotes are both good supplementary test prep books. Do not solely depend on those books though if you want a higer score.
10. For unit tests at school, make sure you read and be able to analyze the information in your essays.

Those are from personal experience, so some may not apply to your school/teachers' system.

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

Don't bother taking a ton senior year. By the time the tests roll around, you're not going to give a shit, so they become just a waste of money.

[*Michelle*]

DO NOT PROCRASTINATE

[JustAnotherTeena...]

DO NOT PROCRASTINATE

Damn...procrastination is what I'm best at

[Simba]

1. AP World History will kill you. Other AP's aren't that bad I guess...

Aw snap.

Do your freaking homework, I can't stress that enough.

Dang, that just really made you sound like a teacher. Then again, you're the one that might want to be teacher, huh.


I'm just taking AP World History. That's all they offer freshman year at my high school. I'm thinking it'll be suicide, but oh well.

[DarkImpressions]

^Maybe,At my school like for the first week you can change your schedule twice,After that your stuck with the same classes.

Because my friend she is in AP European History,Shes like its ALOOTTT of work.
But shes like she signed up for it so I mean she cant blame anyone else.

[Ington]

For AP World History:

Buy the Peterson AP World History book and read it at least 9 weeks before the AP test. Follow the schedule listed.

Oh, and learn to write essays. Comparative essays, change-over-time essays, DBQ's, the works. Know them like the back of your hand.

And finally, use this site. It is the most helpful site on the internet (use the navigation on the left, too):
http://mrburnett.net/apworldhistory/regionaloutlines.htm

[Ington]

That's really easy. Get on it.

After the biology and world history courses I took, I can write 1000 words in one sitting. For a person serious about an AP class, 2-3 weeks should be more than enough.

[*SinfullySweet*]

STUDY!!!! People hardly NEVER study for tests, but it helps ALOT. It does really. I've actually tested it out myself. People say studying does not help them. The reason being, they just forget anyways, or, what they try to learn, really has nothing to do with the actual test.

[$$$ soul]

lmao too late.

2-3 weeks til my AP homework is due.

i have to write at least 1000 words. does it sound bad...yes or no?

=[ im scared. *whimpers

no lie, you can finish 1000 words in a couple days. It'snot that bad.

[Relentless]

A lot of these are quite helpful tips.

I'm taking APUSH & AP English. I have to read 2 books that I didn't even start reading and I go back to school in less than 2 weeks. One book, I have to take notes. The other book, I don't but there both more than 500 pages.

As for AP US History, I have to read 4 chapters and thats it. I can do that.

I think the english is gonna kill me. Any tips on AP english classes as well? =X I can tell it's a lot of reading this year.

[YaGurlSukedMe2SL...]

Bang your teacher.

[salcha4u]

^ No joke. That's how I passed AP World History sophomore year. That's what they mean by "extra help sessions"

WTH SUZZETTE

[ilauqh]

I'm taking AP Spanish and AP Language & Composition this coming year. Are they really hard?

[iDecay]

^

1. AP World History will kill you. Other AP's aren't that bad I guess...

No AP for me until Sophomore year. :\

[treschicgeek]

I'm taking AP Spanish and AP Language & Composition this coming year. Are they really hard?

I'm taking AP Spanish Language this year too. From what I've heard, most of the people that get a 5 on that AP test are ones that have been learning Spanish all their lives, not just in a classroom. I wouldn't tell someone to take that class unless they got a B+ at least in their last Spanish class. Be sure you pronounce stuff really well (roll your rr's and know which letters are stressed) since I know that one part of the AP test is actually you talking to a recorder like...pretending you're in a telephone conversation I think.

Also know all your conjugations, especially for the irregular verbs like ser, ir, and ver.

[annalucky]

I would say make sure you don't just read the material, but understand it as well. So procrastination wouldn't be a good idea. Also, be organized. =)

[salcha4u]

I wouldn't tell someone to take that class unless they got a B+ at least in their last Spanish class.

Haha that's a horrible way of judging whether or not you should take the class. I could have gotten a B+ and done no work at all cause it was really easy and learned nothing, and someone else who got a C+ could have had more experience in Spanish than me.

[HakunaMatata]

1. AP World History will kill you. Other AP's aren't that bad I guess...
2. Study groups include more gossiping than studying but at least they are still fun.
3. Cheat as much as you can (not on tests, hw and labs aren't as bad though), it will help your grade.
4. Suck up a lot.
5. Sit next to someone smart in class.
6. Check what your AP exam dates are so in case you have two exams next to each other...you can evenly space out your studying time. Don't learn the hard way. It sucks.
7. Bring a box of tissues to exam day if you have allergies.
8. Bring a box of tissues anyway in case the annoying person next to you has allergies.
9. Go to Costco and buy those huge capuccino powder things so you can make instant caps whenever instead of running to Starbucks all the time.
10. If you are taking AP Bio, the answeres to the worldwide labs that you need to complete are online. Ahahahahaha :)
11. If the person next to you on exam day falls asleep, don't wake them up unless you know that they are dumber than you...you might screw up the grading curve.

Personal experience for all ftw.

Follow all of that.

And AP World wasn't too bad for me. :/

3. DON'T CRAMP THE NIGHT BEFORE THE AP TEST. But give yourself about 3 weeks to cramp. Haha.

Sorry, I LOVE this typo. xD (Isn't it "cram"? )

DO NOT PROCRASTINATE

FOLLOW THIS FOLLOW THIS FOLLOW THIS.

AND BTW, you will NOT follow this completely, guaranteed, but try the most you posssibly can to not do it.

Lol, you know I'm JP

LIESSSSSS! (:

The best adivce - CAAAAAAAALLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMM DOWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN. The AP Test Prep books are f**king AMAZING, they are a lifesaver. But when you sit down for the test, don't sweat it, calm calm calm calm calm calm calm calm calm. Drink Starbucks if you need to keep awake, but DON'T BE JITTERY. Calm calm calm calm calm calm callmmm.

[*Girthy*]

LALALA!

[DarkImpressions]

AP U.S. History or AP World Historry..
That work is not even funny in those classes.