Ap Art History

hsbc
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:38:48 +0000

I am currently in AP Art History and my teacher ranks in the top percentile for students getting a 4 or a 5 and is an excellent teacher. I recommend for you that you buy the REA AP Art History book - it is written by the top teachers who teach the class and the history review is excellent outlining what is and isn’t important for you to know. Read your textbook thoroughly, generally speaking you should be through the Gothic at the semester and then up to present for the AP, which will require extra work on your part.

Go to AP Central on collegeboard.com and double check what percent of the AP exam is on non-Western cultures, I forget how much but you will have at least one long exam involving a non-Western culture. For this, I suggest, and my teacher does too, that you choose one non-Western culture to specialize in so you will be well equipped for the exam. If you do these things, then you should be well prepared for the exam, but Art History requires much dedication as there simiply is not enough time in any class to get through all of the material. Once per semester, we have a Saturday seminar where my teacher spends 4.5 hours with us and we go through one whole chapter. I suggest that maybe you and your classmates get together one day each semester and work together on teaching yourselves an entire chapter that maybe you won’t get to in your class in order to keep up with what you will need for the AP.