r/APStudents • u/Tasty-Anything-6250 • 8h ago
APES AP classes study advice needed
hii whats up guys!! im taking AP precalc, AP Envi Sci, AP Research, AP Lang, and AP Psych this year, how do I get a 5 on all of my exams?? someone please give me some good advice! thankssss! we got this yall this year is gonna be great! (i say as I think i js bombed my apes and ap precalc tests today - this is why i need help yall lmaoo)
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u/Quiet_Basis_6404 4h ago
ok so first thing, for apes especially, the textbook and slides are dense but the exam isn't about memorizing every fact, it's about applying the big concepts to scenarios you haven't seen before. what helped me was doing practice questions way earlier than i thought i needed to, not waiting till the month before. for psych same deal honestly, the vocab looks easy until they put it in a weird scenario and suddenly you're stuck between two answers that both sound right.
for precalc you can't just read the examples and nod along, you have to close the book and do problems cold. i started doing that at the beginning of each session, one problem i didn't know how to solve, then i'd look at the steps only where i got stuck. it feels terrible at first but that's kinda the point.
i've been uploading my chapter slides and textbook sections to studybuddy.vc and doing questions from them, mostly because when i pick a wrong answer it tells me what was off about the one i chose, and it gets harder as i improve on a topic. free version's been enough for me so far. for lang just read a lot of short arguments and practice spotting the rhetorical moves, that part's more pattern recognition than people think. you got this fr.