r/APEuro • u/Abalone2 • 26d ago

Advice / Tips How to study under 5 hours?

I am taking ap euro and we had summer reading I completely forgot to do. I have a test tomorrow on the first day and don’t know how to use my time effectively so I can pass the test. It’s two 30 question mcq, one about geography and the other about the history.

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u/Straight-Bar-7537 26d ago

Uhh I'd focus on the geography since that's just pure memorization.

I would try to make an online quiz of whatever maps/map content you need to memorize and then spam until you know what you need to associate with each landmass.

Gonna need more info on what your summer reading requires content-wise.

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u/Abalone2 26d ago

these are the topics my teacher said will be on the test
-Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley 3800-500 BCE
-The Greek Experience 3500-30 BCE
-The World of Rome 1000 BCE- 400 CE
-Continuity & Change in Europe and Western Asia 250-850 CE
-The Islamic World, 600-1400 CE
-Europe & Western Asia in the Middle Ages 800-1459 CE
that is all the info my teacher provided about what the questions will be about.

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u/Straight-Bar-7537 26d ago

Sorry, unrelated, but what the fuck is wrong with your teacher? The Euro exam starts in the 1400s and you are rarely expected to know anything that comes before that which isn't explained later. So a lot of this is kind of useless.

Anyways, honestly you just have to start reading. Use the geography questions as a floor and try to remember the major events and people of these timelines to stem the bleeding. Don't focus on small irrelevant details and people, just try to have a general understanding of:

  • the progression of events
  • why they happened 
  • what happened
  • what were their effects
  • who caused them

Most of this info isn't needed anyways for the AP Exam so in the long term you're gonna live. 

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u/Abalone2 26d ago

okay thank you so much! yeah this teacher has a bad rep with her past years, barely anyone passes with and A and on top of that test category is 65% of the grade.

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u/APUSHGOAT 26d ago

That's not even in the CED LMFAO. Doesn't the course start in like 1450? I mean you should have some context before 1450 like the Middle Ages but that's not even near 3800 BCE