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📚 AP US Government Content Resources

• Watch Fiveable’s hour-long Cram Sessions!
• Review our Study Guides!
• Review our Cram Sheets!
• Join our Study Room!
• Watch our 5-Hour Cram Finale the night before your test!
• Use Khan Academy to read and watch videos about topics and then test your knowledge!
• Watch Heimler’s History and AP Review videos for concepts you struggle with! Heimler’s History also has resources on how to write the FRQs.
• Take a practice exam and review released FRQs!
  • more practice tests
  • even more practice tests here

<aside> 📺 Marco Learning's YouTube channel has hundreds of free videos for AP students that focus on each unit and section of AP Exams.

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💡Studying Tips & Tricks

• Review your cases! Flashcards, Quizlets, and practicing FRQs will help ensure that you can recall all the details on exam day. You can also try explaining them out loud to yourself or a friend to test your recall! ✏️
• Study together! Studying with friends that keep you accountable can be a game changer. It can be difficult to tell yourself that you need to block out two hours tonight for reading your textbook. You and your friends can create a Fiveable Study Room where you can all study together! 🤝
• Know your vocab like your own name! The AP Gov test can feel kind of like a vocab test sometimes. If you don’t know a definition by heart, you’ll have a hard time applying it in an FRQ or on a multiple choice question. Use flashcards, quizlets, and this C-SPAN resource to review!

💻 Places to Study

• Study best with friends and enjoy meeting others? Check out Fiveable’s Pomodoro Study Room. Students come together to study any and all subjects while following the Pomodoro studying method.
• Study best alone? Create your own Fiveable Study Room to study by yourself or join one of Fiveable’s Discover Rooms and turn on Focus Mode when needing to block out distractions, such as the chat.
• Study best with others who are in the same course? Check out Fiveable’s Discover Rooms. Some of the rooms are subject-specific and others are broader. Fiveable’s AP Gov study room can be found here! You can use the search bar and see if there are any study rooms made for any other AP courses you may be studying.

🥤Fiveable Freebie

Studying for AP US Government can take a lot of time! When it comes closer to test day and you increase your studying time you have to make sure you are eating and drinking enough. It is incredibly hard to stay motivated and study effectively when you are dehydrated and/or malnourished.

<aside> 💧 This is why we made a water tracker! Download the PDF, print it out, and color a droplet anytime you finish a glass or bottle of water.

Click to download ⬇️

FiveableWaterTracker.pdf

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<aside> 🧩 Enjoy puzzles? Try out an AP Government themed crossword.

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<aside> 📜 Need a laugh, and a reminder on how bills (don’t) become laws? Check out SNL’s parody of “I’m Just a Bill”.

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<aside> 🧘 Need to get the blood flowing and fix your posture? Take a five minute stretch break.

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Looking to take a break? Go for a short walk, color, eat a snack, or work on a puzzle. There are so many things that you can do that involve not picking up your phone! While taking a break, avoid electronic devices such as your phone.

Not sure what to do during a break? Check out this blog for some inspiration.

😂 Don’t forget to appreciate all the AP Gov memes! (It’s a great way to memorize cases, too 👀)

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