<p>I’ve got a solid 1 hour and 30 minutes to self-study each weeknight, and a bunch of time to study over the weekend. Should I study by schedule A or B? (Or you can construct a new schedule to suggest.) I will be religiously following the schedule of my selection starting next Monday, February 23.</p>
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<p>Schedule A:</p>
<p>Mon: USH
Tue: Psychology
Wed: Human Geo
Thu: Env Sci
Fri: Eng Lang
Sat/Sun: USH, Psychology, Human Geo, Env Sci, Eng Lang</p>
<p>Pros-More focus on each individual subject (1hr 30min per night)
Cons-More likely to forget info between sessions</p>
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<p>Schedule B:</p>
<p>Mon: USH, Psychology
Tue: Human Geo, Env Sci
Wed: Eng Lang, USH
Thu: Psychology, Human Geo
Fri: Env Sci, Eng Lang
Sat/Sun: USH, Psychology, Human Geo, Env Sci, Eng Lang</p>
<p>Pros-Less likely to forget info between sessions
Cons-Less focus on each individual subject (45min per night)</p>
<p>hmm, maybe what you could do is fit all 15 aps review sessions into 5 days. That gives you sat/sun to do some brushing up on it so that you don’t forget it.
hope this helps</p>
<p>do you really think you’re going to be able to cover all that material with only 1h30min per night?</p>
<p>1h30 x 5 = 7 hours 30 minutes
weekend time (assume 8 hours) = 15 hours 30 minutes</p>
<p>you are taking five classes
a typical college class is 3 credits (3 hours of class time a week), and ideally you’re supposed to study 2 hours outside of class for every 1 hour you spend in class. so you are supposed to allot 9 hours/week to study each of these subjects. but since they are “easy” APs you might be able to cut it down to 4 or 5</p>
<p>if you spend 4 hours/week on each subject you need 20 hours per week to study, so your 15 hours 30 minutes is almost certainly not enough, especially when you allot time for distractions and breaks…</p>
<p>besides, you’re starting at the end of february. ap exams are in may. you have like half a semester, maybe a little more, so you’ll have to work twice as fast.</p>
<p>fizix, I hope you’re kidding. Studying for AP tests =/= taking a college class. the time that he is allotting for studying is more than enough for the average competent student, even if he is self-studying all 5 of these AP exams (maybe except for US history. That would be crappy to self study as it’s arguably the hardest AP test of them all).</p>
<p>As for the actual schedule, I dunno. Just try both out. If you get bored with 1.5 hours of one subject, then try the other schedule. If you don’t…maybe you will grow to like one schedule more.</p>
<p>I’m actually taking USHAP right now. Last semester I took AP Eng Lang. So I’m only really self-studying for three: human geo, psyhcology, and env sci. However, I learned absolutely nothing in AP Eng Lang so I’m basically teaching myself as we speak. As for USH, I’m progressively learning in class but feel that I need to be reviewing outside of class as well, apart from homework.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions guys; I’ll try both schedules and see how they compare.</p>
<p>Lang is pretty much just a test of how well you write (except maybe for the synthesis which is just a dumbed down DBQ) so I’m not really sure what you would teach yourself for it. It’s not like Lit where you actually have to read books.</p>
<p>As for studying, last year I took 12, and spent about half an hour a night in February, 1 hour a night in March (2 hours each Saturday and Sunday), 2 hours a night for the first two weeks of April, 4 hours a day during April break and 3 hours a day in the days leading up to the AP test. The main thing that’s important regardless of how many you are taking is to leave a lot of time for practice tests, most of your time during the last two weeks should be spent doing old AP FRQs (and multiple choice if you can get your hands on them) and taking test prep book exams.</p>