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# AP U.S. History Crash Course (REA: The Test Prep AP Teachers Recommend)

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REA's Crash Course for the AP® U.S. History Exam - Gets You a Higher Advanced Placement® Score in Less Time Crash Course is perfect for the time-crunched student, the last-minute studier, or anyone who wants a refresher on the subject. Are you crunched for time? Have you started studying for your Advanced Placement® U.S. History exam yet? How will you memorize everything you need to know about American History before the test? Do you wish there was a fast and easy way to study for the exam AND boost your score? If this sounds like you, don't panic. REA's Crash Course for AP® U.S. History is just what you need. Our Crash Course gives you: Targeted, Focused Review - Study Only What You Need to Know The Crash Course is based on an in-depth analysis of the AP® U.S. History course description outline and actual AP® test questions. It covers only the information tested on the exam, so you can make the most of your valuable study time. Broken down into major topics and themes, REA gives you two ways to study the American History — chronologically or thematically. Expert Test-taking Strategies Written by an AP® teacher who has studied the AP® U.S. History Exam for 20 years, the author shares his detailed, question-level strategies and explains the best way to answer the multiple-choice and essay questions. By following his expert advice, you can boost your overall point score! Key Terms You Must Know Mastering AP® vocabulary terms is an easy way to boost your score. Our AP® expert gives you the key terms all AP® U.S. History students must know before test day. Take REA's FREE Practice Exam After studying the material in the Crash Course , go to the online REA Study Center and test what you've learned about American History. Our free practice exam features timed testing, detailed explanations of answers, and automatic scoring analysis. The exam is balanced to include every topic and type of question found on the actual AP® exam, so you know you're studying the smart way. Whether you're cramming for the test at the last minute, looking for extra review, or want to study on your own in preparation for the exams - this is the study guide every AP® U.S. History student must have. When it's crucial crunch time and your Advanced Placement® exam is just around the corner, you need REA's Crash Course for AP® U.S. History!

Review: Can this guide give you a 5? - YES! This book can mostly definitely give you a 5. Notice how I said CAN and not WILL. If you have consistently kept up with the course work, and have retained at least a fundamental basis of American's historical events, you should be able to pull a 5 with this book. This book does not give you everything on US history, but rather outlines it in a simplistic format. A tip I have for anybody purchasing this book is to read it thoroughly and carefully. You must keep a strong sense of a timeline in your mind while reading it as well (which is quite easy as most everything is in chronological order). The reason this guide is very concise relies on the fact that most everything (people, places, events) is summed up in one to two sentences. If you want to definitely secure a 5, I would suggest reading into some of the key terms to take in a better understanding, as that topic may have a lot more depth to it. So keep your AP textbook right next to you while reading this, for it is the most descriptive and should contain pretty much everything on the test. Onto how well you can use it to cram: It is perfect for us procrastinators who get most of our work done the last second. It definitely can be read in less than a day. It should take anywhere from 2-8 hours depending on how thorough, focused, and fast you are. I must say that if you are not bad test taker, do not feel confident about your basis in American history, or just didn't apply yourself during the course that this book may not be for you. You probably want to get the other REA book (it's VERY large, contains everything just like a textbooks!). It has full practice tests, vivid descriptions, etc. This book will also not meaningfully help you in regards to the essays. If that's your biggest problem area, consult your teacher or read the other REA book + reading sample high-scoring essays. This book is perfect for anyone taking multiple APs! I took four, and it was a relief to know that I didn't need a full week of studying. I did get a 5, and I wouldn't say that I applied myself to the fullest throughout the course. That said, I did feel confident enough in my own knowledge (read most of the textbook), and I know that I am a strong test taker. I wouldn't say I'm extremely smart either.
Review: Great Study Aid! Highly Recommended - I'm absolutely ecstatic about this book. I swear that this book was what got me a 4. My teacher wasn't very good and she basically told us to read/outline this textbook that was very long and hard to gather important facts. I bought this book a few weeks before the exam and the weekend before and each day before the exam I read a part of each section and then reviewed the things I was fuzzy on. The author analyzes each test that collegeboard releases and compiles the information that they will most likely test you on your exam. I took my practice exam a week before I got this book and I realized that there were answers almost word for word in this book within each outline. The great thing is that it is easy to read and one can quickly review sections in history that they aren't too familiar with. The book even went so far as to make section separate sections on Women's History, African American History, and Native American History which all make up a large portion of multiple choice questions and usually a few free-response questions. My school provided my class with Barrons books to use. I found the book at times too wordy and the practice questions were too specific. The crash course book only puts in information that has been on previous tests and information that will probably come up on your test. This book even noted in the margins that there are questions that will trick you and it is vital to know a certain fact and to not mix it up. I breezed through the multiple choice because I had just read the facts in the book that previous week. The book also had a section to help with planning for the DBQ. I highly recommend this book to anyone who may need a quick refresher on certain parts of history. It is a great study aid to revive those facts from U.S History 1 and to brush up on Women's, Native American, and African American history.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,191,393 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #246 in Teen & Young Adult Advanced Placement Study Aids #555 in AP Test Guides #952 in Historical Study & Teaching |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can this guide give you a 5?
*by S***. on July 22, 2011*

YES! This book can mostly definitely give you a 5. Notice how I said CAN and not WILL. If you have consistently kept up with the course work, and have retained at least a fundamental basis of American's historical events, you should be able to pull a 5 with this book. This book does not give you everything on US history, but rather outlines it in a simplistic format. A tip I have for anybody purchasing this book is to read it thoroughly and carefully. You must keep a strong sense of a timeline in your mind while reading it as well (which is quite easy as most everything is in chronological order). The reason this guide is very concise relies on the fact that most everything (people, places, events) is summed up in one to two sentences. If you want to definitely secure a 5, I would suggest reading into some of the key terms to take in a better understanding, as that topic may have a lot more depth to it. So keep your AP textbook right next to you while reading this, for it is the most descriptive and should contain pretty much everything on the test. Onto how well you can use it to cram: It is perfect for us procrastinators who get most of our work done the last second. It definitely can be read in less than a day. It should take anywhere from 2-8 hours depending on how thorough, focused, and fast you are. I must say that if you are not bad test taker, do not feel confident about your basis in American history, or just didn't apply yourself during the course that this book may not be for you. You probably want to get the other REA book (it's VERY large, contains everything just like a textbooks!). It has full practice tests, vivid descriptions, etc. This book will also not meaningfully help you in regards to the essays. If that's your biggest problem area, consult your teacher or read the other REA book + reading sample high-scoring essays. This book is perfect for anyone taking multiple APs! I took four, and it was a relief to know that I didn't need a full week of studying. I did get a 5, and I wouldn't say that I applied myself to the fullest throughout the course. That said, I did feel confident enough in my own knowledge (read most of the textbook), and I know that I am a strong test taker. I wouldn't say I'm extremely smart either.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Study Aid! Highly Recommended
*by B***X on July 17, 2010*

I'm absolutely ecstatic about this book. I swear that this book was what got me a 4. My teacher wasn't very good and she basically told us to read/outline this textbook that was very long and hard to gather important facts. I bought this book a few weeks before the exam and the weekend before and each day before the exam I read a part of each section and then reviewed the things I was fuzzy on. The author analyzes each test that collegeboard releases and compiles the information that they will most likely test you on your exam. I took my practice exam a week before I got this book and I realized that there were answers almost word for word in this book within each outline. The great thing is that it is easy to read and one can quickly review sections in history that they aren't too familiar with. The book even went so far as to make section separate sections on Women's History, African American History, and Native American History which all make up a large portion of multiple choice questions and usually a few free-response questions. My school provided my class with Barrons books to use. I found the book at times too wordy and the practice questions were too specific. The crash course book only puts in information that has been on previous tests and information that will probably come up on your test. This book even noted in the margins that there are questions that will trick you and it is vital to know a certain fact and to not mix it up. I breezed through the multiple choice because I had just read the facts in the book that previous week. The book also had a section to help with planning for the DBQ. I highly recommend this book to anyone who may need a quick refresher on certain parts of history. It is a great study aid to revive those facts from U.S History 1 and to brush up on Women's, Native American, and African American history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best AP book I ever bought
*by K***Y on July 8, 2012*

Last year in my junior year I really wanted to get a 5 on my AP US test after receiving a humble score of 3 on my AP Euro test as a sophomore. During sophomore year I bought a Princeton Review prep book, but in reality I totally crammed the night before the test and did badly. Not much of a surprise. In junior year, I began to study about a month before the test date, using two prep books as study material. However, they were WAY too thick and had too many stupid details and irrelevant questions. In a month's time, I was pushing myself to read over 30 pages a day while maintaining my grades at school and preparing for finals. Though I only signed up for one AP test (meaning I was not as stressed out as my friends who signed up for 5 or 6 AP tests), I still felt that I had too much to juggle. So I bought REA APUSH. I was a little skeptical because it was so thin and looked like it only provided very basic outlines. In the end, I was proven wrong. I read the entire book from cover to cover TWICE. Just twice. After taking a practice AP test in my history class, I only missed about 13 questions, whereas my peers missed over HALF of the questions. 13 may seem like a lot, but that puts any student in good standing in receiving a 5. So again, I read REA and took the SAT II US History test and scored a 710. The SAT II test was pretty hard and I thought I failed it... but the REA saved my life. I'm sure if I had read it more than twice, I would have scored way higher. A month later I took the AP US test. Honestly, it was even easier than the SAT II since the APUSH test provides a generous curve. I came out of the testing site with great confidence, having felt like most of the questions were EXACTLY THE SAME as the material in the REA. No joke. Today I just found out I got a 5 on the AP test. :) If you are an APUSH student (with mediocre test scores in class) but are willing to dedicate about a week of reading and re-reading, YOU WILL DEFINITELY GET THAT 5. I swear. There is no other book out there that works... and history's not even my best subject! Trust me. Just pay attention in class and read this a couple times before the AP test. You'll do great.

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