• Take notes by the due date, so the lectures are more like review than first-time learning.

• It is more important to memorize the events themselves and not their exact dates ~ Just know the general time frame it's in for writing prompts.

  • Some people panic after seeing an unfamiliar time frame, so just know enough about dates to know if a certain event or historical practice applies.

  • BUT it's more important that you know what the events/vocab terms ARE instead

• Focus on getting easier points on the FRQs over complexity and writing perfectly.

  • Great writing comes with time, so start out just hitting the points for contextualization, thesis, evidence, and basic analysis for at least a 4/6 or 4/7​

• Utilize the small info section that describes the stimulus to give you a basic understanding of what you will be reading.
  • Look at the dates, author, & other hints that could give you more context for the stimulus.​

• Associate and group together historical events that occurred in similar time frames or have similarities elsewhere.

  • For example, you should be able to quickly associate the invasion of Poland, German Nazi extremism to scapegoat Jewish people after the debts of World War I, or the rise of Hitler with his fascist nationalistic ideals, with "World War II".