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Ap United States Government

key concepts and institutions of the political system and culture of the United States. You’ll read, analyze, and discuss the U.S. Constitution and other documents as well as complete a research or applied civics project. Textbooks The American Democracy by Thomas E. Patterson Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges by Charles Hauss Barron’s How to Prepare for the AP US Government and Politics Advanced Placement Examination by Curt Lader
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Ap Statistics

Textbook Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis by Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen and Jay Devore Barron’s AP Statistics Other Reading “A Lady Tasting Tea” by David Salsburg “Visual Display of Quantitative Information” by Edward Tufte How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan Online Resources Coursera, edX, Stanford, Class Central and Udacity all have intro to Statistics courses.
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Ap Spanish

The AP Spanish Language Exam is a 3-4 hour skill-based exam testing your abilities and proficiency in Spanish. It is not a knowledge-based exam like most other AP exams. You are “on-stage” in Spanish for over 3 hours, integrating all of your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, as well as cultural information acquired during your Spanish studies over the years. There are sections for multiple choice written, multiple choice audio, written free response and spoken free response.
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AP Self Study

Some homeschooling parents don’t feel qualified to teach AP classes to their students. What can be done by the student on their own? Here are some ideas to empower the student to own the AP experience. Start with an Overview Look at the main ideas of the course. What will be the primary topics? What is the structure of the test? What are the essays and multiple choice questions? You can find this information on College Board’s site.
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AP Psychology

This is a great course to explore ideas, theories, and methods of the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Online Resources Crash Course: watched videos throughout the year but found that they were not very helpful for review. Textbook Meyer Felt too casual and not very professional. Wasn’t super concise but it did stick pretty closely to things covered on AP exam. Barron’s This was the only review book I used and it was super useful.
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AP Physics 1

Prerequisites: algebra 1 and 2 Basic Details AP Physics Reviewbook
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BYU

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Ap Byu

Colleges vary widely in credit offered, so consider your specific college choice as you choose the exams you’ll take. This article addresses credit offered at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo. Each year BYU publishes a chart indicating the current credit they will offer for each score of each AP test. Their chart sorts the information by test name, listing all 39 possible AP tests. When examining their chart, I find it challenging to extract the information and choose tests that will be most meaningful.
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