During my years at high school, I was able to gain the ambiguous title of “nerd”. I always took it as a compliment whenever someone chose to use this label rather than my name because I attributed it to being something positive. I was obsessed with high school and just learning in general. Even though there were times where it wasn’t necessary, I always treated high school like a full time job. I was very passionate about everything I did for my classes, and I was consumed with the idea that I had to get the best grades I could. But I would also try to take the most challenging classes. I demanded a lot from myself, and because I always took the most advanced courses, which is why I decided to enroll in AP World History when I was scheduling
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I didn’t use my standard methods I put into effect for every other test I took in high school. I wasn’t used to preparing for a test that was so far away, so I had to adapt by familiarizing myself with a new system of learning because simply memorizing information wasn’t going to work this time. The main way I would study was taking practice tests or old AP World History tests. This really helped me become familiar with the way the questions and answers were set up, and it allowed me to have a better understanding of how the test worked in general. The AP World History test has a specific format, so by studying it over and over, I was not only learning the information presented in the questions, but I was also preparing for the specific structure of the questions themselves. Aside from taking practice tests, I found that the key to studying was repetition. I would constantly be reviewing all of my notes and rereading the textbook, trying to impress the information into my memory. Studying all year for one test is as dreadful as it sounds. I would constantly be making simple outlines of the history of the world, adding in only some specific detail. Eventually, I began to get annoyed by the redundancy of the information I was studying, but I knew it was the best way to commit the it to
I didn’t use my standard methods I put into effect for every other test I took in high school. I wasn’t used to preparing for a test that was so far away, so I had to adapt by familiarizing myself with a new system of learning because simply memorizing information wasn’t going to work this time. The main way I would study was taking practice tests or old AP World History tests. This really helped me become familiar with the way the questions and answers were set up, and it allowed me to have a better understanding of how the test worked in general. The AP World History test has a specific format, so by studying it over and over, I was not only learning the information presented in the questions, but I was also preparing for the specific structure of the questions themselves. Aside from taking practice tests, I found that the key to studying was repetition. I would constantly be reviewing all of my notes and rereading the textbook, trying to impress the information into my memory. Studying all year for one test is as dreadful as it sounds. I would constantly be making simple outlines of the history of the world, adding in only some specific detail. Eventually, I began to get annoyed by the redundancy of the information I was studying, but I knew it was the best way to commit the it to