AP Study Schedule
Follow the Green Calendar if you are starting with 7 weeks to go, are pacing yourself and still want to have a social life and sleep.
Follow the Orange Calendar if you are lagging, have 5 weeks to go, but still want to be well prepared and are willing to give up some of your nights/weekends.
If you are down to 2 weeks, do everything you possible can on the list. You need to cancel all social events and hole up for the next two and a half weeks. Seriously. Choose the types of things that work for you and do as many as you can.
*Also, for those of you in AP Bio or AP Calc, you need to start early and pace yourself. Bio and History are both content heavy
*This is a general calendar for all years and doesn’t account for the difference in where spring break falls. You will need to make a few adjustments.
Make a big calendar of everything you have going on. Dance? Plays? Sports? Family obligatons? Put it on a calendar so you know what you are up against.
Study Ideas:
1. Create a timeline of key events and Presidents (I have links to timelines already done, but it often helps students to make their own as organizing it in your head helps your brain put it in order). At LEAST, study the timeline online or in the book.
2. Create a political/social/economic chart Be sure to pay special attention to women and minorities (There are the charts at the front of each unit in the book, but again, doing it yourself helps your brain remember it)
3. After each chapter, take the practice quizzes online at history teacher.net
4. Apps, flash cards- either your own or some companies make great flash cards. At the bottom of Historyteacher.net, she has lots of review links. Check them out! There are also quite a few good apps @$5.
5. Take a full length practice test- time yourself. There is one posted online. There is one at the back of your RB. Figure out why the questions you got wrong are wrong. Look them up. If there was a section you flat out don’t understand, go back and re-read it.
6. DBQ Practice: Review DBQ Strategies- In your review book- Look at all the DBQ Guides from the table of contents (after Ch 1, 4, 8, 12, 13, 17) Practice some DBQ/FRQ Prompts. Pull up the sample prompts Power points and brainstorm how you would answer the questions
7. Watch Mr Pate/Crash course- especially if you are an auditory learner. If you have time, watch all of them. Or, if you are short on time, choose ones you don’t know. Also, check for podcasts “PHS APUSH” or “HipHughes” you tube videos
8. Look over the 19 pg. cram packet under secret stuff.
*Read the 70 pg Giant Review under Secret Stuff.
*Review the Study Guide under Secret Stuff- Print this out and take it with you everywhere
*Look at the Timeline Cram Packet
The more you procrastinate, the less you will have time to do well. In past years, the number one predictor of being successful on the exam (other than doing what you need to all year-but too late for that) is to reread the review book and follow a consistent study plan.
Before you start, take a practice test. It will give you a baseline.
Print out the Study Guide under secretstuff. Look over the information corresponding to the chapters you are reading.
This will get you through the Review Book in time for all your MC finals and pretty close to your DBQ final. It is also the most sane.
Weeks out / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Weekend7 weeks to go / RB Ch 1 / RB Ch 2 / RB Ch 3 / RB Ch 4 / RB Ch 5 Take History Teacher. Net quizzes for these chapter Review Timeline and Terms for this chapters you read this week. Watch corresponding Mr. Pate/Crash course videos Review in the Study Guide Information corresponding the RB chapters you read this week.
6 weeks to go / RB Ch 6 / RB Ch 7 / RB CH 8 / RB Ch 9 / RB Ch 10 Take History Teacher. Net quizzes for these chapter Review Timeline and Terms for this chapters you read this week Watch corresponding Mr. Pate/Crash course videos Review in the Study Guide Information corresponding the RB chapters you read this week.
5- weeks to go / RB 11 / RB Ch 12 / RB CH 13 / RB CH 14 / RB Ch 15, 16
Take History Teacher. Net quizzes for these chapter Review Timeline and Terms for this chapters you read this week Watch corresponding Mr. Pate/Crash course videos Review in the Study Guide Information corresponding the RB chapters you read this week.
4 weeks / RB 17, 18 / RB 19, 20 / RB Ch 21, 22 / RB 23, 24 / Take History Teacher. Net quizzes for these chapter Review Timeline and Terms for this chapters you read this week Watch corresponding Mr. Pate/Crash course videos Review in the Study Guide Information corresponding the RB chapters you read this week.
3 weeks to go / Ch 25, 26 / Ch 27, 28 / Ch 29 / Ch 30
Yay! You are done with the RB with 2 weeks to go! Now you can focus in on things you really need to refresh on / Weekend:
Do Practice prompts from essay questions already asked: How would you answer? Look back at the FRQ study guides. Could you answer these questions Watch Hip Hughes on Supreme Court Cases. Take notes as you watch.
Take another practice test. Review your memory cues.
Think bout the questions you missed on the MC Practice Tests- Watch the crash course videos on those topics
2 weeks to go / Go through a timeline- Put everything in order in your head / In the Study Guide Review through Jefferson / In the Study Guide review through Civil War / In the Study Guide Review through Progressives / You should be done with the RB at this time. If not, catch up!
Watch as many Mr Pate/Crash course videos as you can. If you have AP Bio, you need to study for History this weekend/week as I know you will be studying for Bio next weekend and won’t study after the AP Bio test. This is it! Read any old RB chapters that you feel you need to. In Study Guide Review through the Great Depression
1 Week before the test / Test Day in Psych
Review Study Guide through Cold War / Catch up, / Test Day in Calc / Study for your English test and go to bed early. / Test Day in English
This weekend: Review Study Guide- Catch up and go back if you are not confident about a time period.
Re-watch Mr Pate/Crash Course for any topics you are still fuzzy about, especially some of the comparison ones.
If you are not in Bio this weekend:
Read 70 pg Giant Review
Test Day in Bio
If you are in Bio: Mon or Tuesday- review and/or look over 19 pg Cram Packet / TEST DAY in History
YOU HAVE 5 WEEKS TO THE TEST
Most of you are looking at this, thinking, shoot I already missed the start of the first calendar. Well, here is the next option- Here we go! Set aside study time. Turn your phone off. You can do it! Print out the Study Guide under secret stuff and take it everywhere with you.
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Weekend5- weeks to go / RB Ch 1,2 / RB Ch 3,4 / RB Ch 5,6 / RB Ch 7,8 / This weekend
Review in Study Guide Timeline and Terms for this week Take Historyteacher content and terms quiz for the chapters covered this week. Watch Mr Pate/Crash Course
4- weeks to go / RB Ch 9, 10 / RB Ch 11, 12 / RB Ch 13, 14 / RB Ch 15, 16 / Review in Study Guide Timeline and Terms for this week Take Historyteacher content and terms quiz for the chapters covered this week. Watch Mr Pate/ Crash Course
Study your Final Terms list and Memory Cues
3- weeks to go / RB 17, 18 / RB 19, 20 / RB CH 21, 22 / RB 23, 24 / Review in Study Guide Timeline and Terms for this week Take Historyteacher content and terms quiz for the chapters covered this week. Watch Mr Pate/ crash course
Read first half of the Giant Cram Packet Look over first half of essay Prompts How would you answer? Study FRQs
2 weeks to go / RB 25, 26 / RB 27, 28 / RB 29, 30 / Read second half of the Giant Cram Packet / Catch up on as many videos as you can. If you have AP Bio, you need to study for History this weekend/week as I know you will be studying for Bio next weekend and won’t study after the AP Bio test. This is it! Review in Study Guide Timeline and Terms for this week Take Historyteacher content and terms quiz for the chapters covered this week.
Review the memory cues
1 Week before the test / Test Day in Psych
Look at a gigantic timeline and put things in order in your head / Read second half of Giant Cram Packet (or the whole things if you haven’t yet) / Study for your English test and go to bed early. / Test Day in English / Re-watch Crash Course for any topics you are still fuzzy about, Mr Pate has some great some of the comparison videos
If you are not in Bio this weekend:
Watch 3 hr Hip hughes review and/or Review the Study Guide Take practice quizzes. Or Read the Giant cram packet if your haven’t yet.
Test Day in Bio
Review the 19 pg Cram Packet Timeline / TEST DAY in History
Oh Snap. Here I am again, procrastinating and now I only have three weeks to study. Hopefully I am not in AP BIO or AP CALC, because then I am REALLY bummed. But, I can still study. I just need to tell all of my friends and significant others I will see them in three weeks. I need to turn OFF my phone at night. Think: I can do this! If I buckle down , I still have a chance of not taking a class that will be 150 hours in college. It’s worth it! Plus, my parents will not be happy if they paid $89 and I don’t try. Print out the Study Guide under secret stuff and take it everywhere with you.
Before you start your 3 week cram session, take a full length practice test. You can come and look at your first MC test too. Make a note of how many questions you missed from each unit. Determine which 4 units you need the most work on. The first week, you are reading all the review book chapters from the 5 Units you need help with most. Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course videos.
Weeks before the test / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Weekend3 weeks to go / RB ch for first unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for second unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for third unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for fourth unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for fifth unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well
Take another Full length practice test.
Study the terms in the first half of the study guide.
Read through the first half of the Study Guide
Look through a timeline, start putting things together in you head- what happened when and choose the next three units you
2 weeks to go / RB ch for a unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for a unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and watch crash course for unit as well / RB ch for a unit you need to review Take History Teacher.net quizzes and videos / Catch up, because you know you are already behind on the behind calendar. / DBQ Practice Can you answer random prompts? Catch up on as many Mr Pate/ crash course videos as you can. If you have AP Bio, you need to study for History this weekend/week as I know you will be studying for Bio next weekend and won’t study after the AP Bio test. This is it! Read/reread any old RB chapters that you feel you need to. Take History Teacher quizzes. Read and study the second half of the study guide.
1 week to go
AP TESTS start / Test Day in Psych
Read as much of the GIANT Cram packet as possible this week. / Review as much of the study guide packet as possible / Study for your English test and go to bed early. / TEST DAY in History / Watch Videos for any topics you are still fuzzy about.. Watch the comparison Mr. Pate videos and study the 19 pg cram packet. Do a crash course marathon.
Consider- doing a rough timeline of events as you watch the crash course videos to help you put things together in your hed
Less time than this?
Look at the 19 pg. cram packet. Find the Eras you feel least comfortable with. Read in the RB or watch Mr Pate/Crash course. Take practice tests and quizzes, as many as you can. Read EVERY WORD of the Giant Cram packet. Do as many of the “Ideas” listed at the top as you can. Print out the Study Guide under secret stuff and take it everywhere with you.
Good luck.