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Tazza
Korea (South)1678 Posts
edit: sorry for the mistakes, I wrote this really fast. To clarify, I'm in second year of high school in Korea. Most kids took AP econ in first year. The kids that are taking these additional classes during winter break with me are the kids that got a 4(lol) and want to take the test again. In Korea, the winter break is longer, and that's when you move up a grade.  | ||
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
2.) Learn like there is no tomorrow (all the effin time) 3.) Get at least 7 hours sleep before the test --> See results. Best of luck to you, man :-o (on a sidenote, maybe you shouldnt be surfing TL.net but learning, kekekeke?  ) | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On February 22 2011 23:22 FetTerBender wrote: 1.) Get masses of coffee, Energy Drink and Pizza, 2.) Learn like there is no tomorrow (all the effin time) 3.) Get at least 7 hours sleep before the test --> See results. Best of luck to you, man :-o (on a sidenote, maybe you shouldnt be surfing TL.net but learning, kekekeke? )Actually it has been proven that a lack of sleep impedes your learning capabilities, so pulling all nighters and eating crappy food isn't going to be better than if he were to stay go to bed at normal times. | ||
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
On February 22 2011 23:25 SolHeiM wrote: Actually it has been proven that a lack of sleep impedes your learning capabilities, so pulling all nighters and eating crappy food isn't going to be better than if he were to stay go to bed at normal times. I never mentioned not sleeping on a regular basis, but learning under the influence of caffeine or other stuff that helps you to boost your concentration was the only thing that helped me get over some really crappy courses in university (procastinateing to learn sucks, i still did it way too often) | ||
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don_kyuhote
3007 Posts
See you in 5 days. | ||
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Grettin
42417 Posts
good luck to you! | ||
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Disquiet
Australia628 Posts
On February 22 2011 23:25 SolHeiM wrote: Actually it has been proven that a lack of sleep impedes your learning capabilities, so pulling all nighters and eating crappy food isn't going to be better than if he were to stay go to bed at normal times. While that is true, lack of time can impede your learning process more than lack of sleep. If you are only opening the textbook 3 days before the exam (lets face it we've all been there), knowing that extra equation you've never seen before is quite likely a lot more valuable than an extra hours sleep, even if it might make you slower for the exam or make you forget a few things. To me it always seems like a tradeoff between how much I'll forget due to lack of sleep against how much I can learn from some extra study. OP should know all about marginal utility since hes doing economics  Moral of the story : procrastination is bad, and I feel for OP since its not his fault, but 5 days of solid studies you can probably get a pass provided you don't have other commitments, but those 5 are going to be hell  | ||
Sayle
United Kingdom3685 Posts
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DarkOptik
452 Posts
I used Barron's, if that helps, and I think that while it's notorious for overexaggerating the difficulty level of APs, as long as you know everything in it, you'll usually ace the AP. However, all of that being said, do you know if the AP qualifying test is similar to what the AP test actually is? If it is, I suggest that it's much more important to go to collegeboard.com and dig up all the past FRQ's and study them instead. It gives you a much better idea of what to expect and consequently search for. The MC questions are a bit harder to find (since they aren't legally released except to instructors), but I'm sure with enough digging and enough google expertise you could find it all just fine. tl;dr version: AP Macro/Micro isn't one of the more diffcult APs, relax a bit. I used Barron's review book to great effect. Find out if the AP qualifying test is ~ similar to the AP test. If it is, go to collegeboard to find FRQs + use google to find MC questions. glhf! | ||
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Flakes
United States3125 Posts
but if you are feeling the crunch it may be better not to add new things to learn And on sleep: I agree with disquiet, no amount of sleep will make material you haven't read magically appear in your brain. Also, if you study while on caffeine, take caffeine before the test (your body/brain will build an association between caffeine and studying, and every edge counts). | ||
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agarangu
Chile274 Posts
On February 23 2011 00:26 Disquiet wrote: While that is true, lack of time can impede your learning process more than lack of sleep. If you are only opening the textbook 3 days before the exam (lets face it we've all been there), knowing that extra equation you've never seen before is quite likely a lot more valuable than an extra hours sleep, even if it might make you slower for the exam or make you forget a few things. To me it always seems like a tradeoff between how much I'll forget due to lack of sleep against how much I can learn from some extra study. OP should know all about marginal utility since hes doing economics Moral of the story : procrastination is bad, and I feel for OP since its not his fault, but 5 days of solid studies you can probably get a pass provided you don't have other commitments, but those 5 are going to be hell Actually, the lack of sleep causes your brain not to learn, because what you study during the day gets to some king of a /temp folder in your brain, and only during the sleep it's copied to your /root folder and only if you complete your sleep cycle. I would recommend you sleep al least 8 hours, and then study the rest of the day, but taking a small break every two hours of study to clear you head. Also do not study in your room! Otherwise your brain will associate your room with "study" and you will have a really bad sleep. The same is true for other places: if you define a place to study and do nothing nothing but studying there, your brain will associate it with "study" and it will become easier and easier to focus in that place. + Show Spoiler + http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Physiological function of sleep | ||
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Joementum
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QuothTheRaven
United States5524 Posts
I took both AP Econ exams in high school without taking the class (as in, just took the exams on my own). Read the Princeton Review and did 3-5 practice exams in the ~2 weeks before the exam, graded myself, corrected errors, and went on to get 5s in both macroeconomics and microeconomics. Power studying and cramming it all in with just 5 days will be tough, but it's certainly doable. I'd strongly recommend you take and self-grade some of the practice tests--a lot of the open answered graphing questions or w/e have very similar "themes," as in like the question is pretty much the same but the numbers and a few details are changed. The first time you see one it can be really confusing, but if you've done like 10-15 of the questions before and know how the question works, then it's really easy. | ||
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
On February 22 2011 23:25 SolHeiM wrote: Actually it has been proven that a lack of sleep impedes your learning capabilities, so pulling all nighters and eating crappy food isn't going to be better than if he were to stay go to bed at normal times. A lack of sleep may impede your learning capability, but not studying impedes it infinitely. I've pulled more all-nighters in my life than anyone I know, and if you have the will to do it, do it. It's definitely worth having the chance at doing well on the test, even if you're tired, than having no chance whatsoever because the information has never crossed your brain. And I've proven that myself. That beats your second hand test  | ||
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Hynda
Sweden2226 Posts
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starfries
Canada3508 Posts
no problem ^_^ | ||
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drag_
England425 Posts
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