<p>How hard is the US history test? I am a HS senior going to Georgetown next year and all I need is a 4. However, I am in IB history so I’m not sure if theres much difference.</p>
<p>I thought it was easy, you just need to review a lot. I didn’t listen much in class, only read princeton review once and got a 3. You also might want to go over other DBQ’s, if you aren’t already doing so in your class.
But yeah, if your gpa and test scores are good enough for georgetown, then you should have no problem getting a 4.</p>
<p>I would get the AP US History Crash Course book by REA. It really helped my son last year (5), is very concise and costs under $10 on Amazon.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice on the book…any other suggestions?</p>
<p>I believe that Crash Course and Amsco make a really good combination.</p>
<p>If you are doing well in the class and have kept up with your reading, you’ll probably be fine. But if you want suggestions, I’d buy an AMSCO book and do some practice tests. That’s what I did last year, and I got a 5.</p>
<p>Also, the night before the test, I went over some essay prompts in my AMSCO book and made outlines of the essays I would write if I was really taking the test. I think that really helped me with time management, and it was a good way to review.</p>
<p>APUSH is a piece of cake if you know the general context of the time periods, and review the key facts. I’m big into military history, which isn’t a big part of the exam, but knowing the background behind the different time periods goes a long way. There’s a lot of key terms and names to memorize, but nothing too hard. I used the REA book.</p>
<p>I didn’t find the APUSH exam very difficult, it was just that the class I took in preparation for the exam was time consuming. Whether or not you find the exam difficult depends on how well you reviewed the topics. My teacher last year would assign thirty main people or events for each chapter, which we had to take notes on for the Who, What, Where, When, Why. Then we would write a brief summary of why that particular event or person was significant in the greater scope of American history. That was a pretty good way of learning all of the material because it made everything relevant to the big picture and I remembered it. </p>
<p>Around exam time all I did was read through the PR history review. Then I just took a practice test the morning of the exam. I scored a 4. So if you feel your class has gone in depth over all of the material, you should feel confident that you will score high because when it comes to the time when you need to review for the test, you will have a very minimal amount of reviewing to do.</p>