AP EURO ! = x(

zach447
Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:47:21 +0000

“So do u think i should go over everything by myself? basically reading about 500 pgs of a college book on euro?”

I tried to do that last year because I knew my teacher wasn’t going to finish the course. I’m not sure about your book, but our book just way too long and boring (I didn’t like the way it split up sub-sections, either) for that to be beneficial to me.

My suggestions are:


Get “Modern European History” by Viault and continue to read through the book until the AP test. A lot of stuff in there you can skip through (or just peruse), but there’s also a lot of good information, and it will give you a good timeline of everything. My one regret with AP Euro was that I did not utilize that book. I realized in late-April/early-May (the test having been May 7) how helpful it would have been to go through that book a few times. I got a 4 on the AP test, but I’m confident that I would have had an easy 5 if I had read through the book at least once or twice.


Also, REA has a very concise cram book along with a plethora of questions that are much more difficult than the ones you’ll find on the AP test. I found Princeton Review’s cram book pretty good for just a straight review, too – not much detail, but enough to remind you of certain important situations that are expected to be on the AP test.