<p>Well, first hi. I like to introduce myself. I am currently a high school sophomore and I go to a brand new high school that started last year when I was a freshman.</p>
<p>Now there are a few advantages in being a new high school since they offer officer positions for clubs to lower classman and whatnot but it has its downsides as well. </p>
<p>For example, our school does not offer a lot of AP classes yet simply because our school doesn’t even have seniors yet. 
But luckily, because there is one class above me (the junior class), I probably don’t feel as restricted simply because I probably wouldn’t even be able to take the AP classes offered because I don’t have the Pre-Ap requisite classes for it in the first place. </p>
<p>However, I am majorly thinking about taking US History online (this semester) so I can get credit for the first semester of it. Then during the summer I can either try and test out of the second semester or take it online again. HOWEVER, I also think that once I get my credit for US history out of the way, I want to take the AP exam. The only thing is that the course taught online is regular level so its not AP structured at all.</p>
<p>The reason is because for the past 2 years, I’ve had HORRIBLE teachers. I mean horrible, terrible, bad, terribad Social Studies teachers that can’t teach. I mean my current WHAP teacher is dyslexic. </p>
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<p>So he never actually reads our essays, just glances over them, in fact he just reads the thesises and gives us a 100 if its good and 50 if its bad. He’s lazy to and he admits it a lot to a point where he gives you 30 TEST POINTS every time you come in after school to help him grade. You can literally fail his tests but still have a 100 average because you grade papers. o.o</p>
<p>I also noticed that for most of my homework in all my other classes, I can finish quickly. It’s just the notes that take OVER 4 HOURS for me to do at times (including copying word for word the vocab because he makes us -.-). The notes I take aren’t even useful to me in my opinion because I don’t use the notes to study, I read the chapter again the night before and then take the tests the next day. He’s too lazy to make his own tests, so he gets the tests from the book so they’re not AP styled. Therefore, the test itself literally picks out a fact from one sentence in a random paragraph and tests you over it. It’s not AP style where you have to make connections, its word to word useless detail memorization.</p>
<p>Is that bad studying skills? Anybody got better note taking suggestions because I just have the hardest time taking notes over a 20 page size 4 font chapter without losing focus/getting distracted?</p>
<p><strong><em>So sorry, I noticed I was digressing and complaining but I don’t want to erase what I just typed so the jist of my problem is below, apologies, you can skip everything else 
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<p>Anyhoo, is it possible for me to get a 5 (my goal) on the APUSH exam without taking the class. I’m taking WHAP right now (or at least its suppose to be AP level but its not because our teacher can’t teach and wastes a whole entire class period telling us stories from his childhood and how laziness helped him get through life -.-) So I have some experience in writing the tremendous essays. Because I really want to do this cuz I despise taking notes and usually my most time consuming stuff comes from history and like… the notes don’t help but they take hours to do.</p>
<p>I have a year and a half to prepare (approximately), what are good sites/suggestions to self studying history? I heard about people using these free online comprenhesive sites, but the forums keep referring them as JFLS KDJFI KDL;FKA, Idk, some random 4-5 letters, what do those initials stand for? What textbooks, prepbooks, bookbooks should I use?</p>
<p>I’m doing this so I won’t have to take History next year (yes hallelujah!), and replace my history slot with a meaningful math course like stats. (I’m only in alg 2 this year so next year is precal for me, no cal :[).</p>
<p>In addition (sorry for this thread being so long), because our high school is new, even when we get seniors next year, all the AP classes probably won’t be offered. So is studying for AP Human Geography plausible? In addition, my WHAP teacher wants to teach Econ AP when they have it next year, so I definitely want to take the AP and test out of that class before I’m a senior.</p>
<p>Btw, quick question, would it look bad to take the AP exam, get a good score (hopefully), and then take the AP class, or would college admissions think your just being a GPA **ore?</p>
<p>Also, I am debating which 2/3 AP sciences I want. Unfortunately, I can’t take all the AP sciences because I’m a drum major in band. and during marching season practices are 4 days a week so i can afford to take one AP class because the day that we’re off, I can do the lab, but I can’t do 2 AP sciences in a row.</p>
<p>So I think I’m going to take AP chem because Im taking PAP chem right now, should I take AP BIO or AP Physics (no envi for me, unless I self study, good idea or no/I’ll terrifail?) when I’m a senior? Which one is better to self study?</p>
<p>As you can see, I have quite a bit of self studying to do because I really want to go to get college credit so I can test out of those stupid, waste of expensive hardearned tuition money, freshman intro classes. :)</p>
<p>I’m sorry for the long post, I didn’t mean for it to be long. But right now its 2:54 AM in my time zone, (I was staying up to watch the 1970 film Love Story on Youtube, I know i’m a loser), and yeah, I’m going to bed.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading this through if you have. All comments/advice would be so helpful for me because I desperately need it since our counselors are useless since they all want us to take Co-Op courses like cosmetology, a/c technicion, and auto repair o.O because they get federal funding “for every warm body in those classes” as my chem teacher puts it. </p>
<p>Good Night. ZzzzZzzzzZzzZzZzz :)</p>