<p>@emmetstar Have you ever had those moments when you barely study for a test, are burdened with the sinking feeling that you failed it , and suddenly POOF, you score one of the highest grades on a test? Or have you experienced a time in which you study extensively and somehow bomb the test? What I’ve found is that actually LEARNING the material ALWAYS trumps a last ditch/“over killed” effort to study (seems obvious but this point isn’t regularly emphasized). This was probably the same with your success on the AP World exam despite doing little studying (ok, in CC terms anyways :P). </p>
<p>If you’ve done well in history with little to no preparation, stick with what you’re doing (if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it). However, I’ve found that the APUSH exam requires ALOT of memorization of terminology, events, and significant figures and it puts much less significance on analysis than the AP World Exam .This annoyed me, but I sucked it up, did an intensive review of Colonial America terms/events (a period that I was particularly weak in) and LO AND BEHOLD, I had to use them for one of the FRQ’s. I can partly attribute my 5 to this. :D</p>