AP World History?

nickknack
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:06:19 +0000

The tests in Barron’s are more difficult and will prepare you better. However, I found the Sparknotes tests and notecards be most useful, which I never see mentioned in forums. I anticipate that this is because my self-study was supplementary to a non-AP world history course, but if you have decent background knowledge of world history it should prepare you well.

As to the difficulty of the course, there’s a lot of material (5000 years on 5 continents can’t be easy to swallow), but the test itself is amazingly easy. I remember feeling overprepared as I took it last year.