Strategy
When first deciding how to design my website I thought about my own specific study style and then how it would be most affective to present this style on Weebly's format. Understanding students will most likely struggle with similar things as me, and trying to address these issues with an easy way to comprehend them. The most important thing for me was not flooding my other group members or myself with information, but only including the essentials to understand the topics. I found the AP Achiever McGraw-Hill very useful for highlighting important issues with brief explanations and use this as a building block to my research further into the topic. When thinking about the AP test and what order to study the material I started with general ideas and then once I understood the concept, time frame, and surrounding I moved into specific events and people. This was quite helpful and made it easier for me to understand time periods and topics. When creating the website I used a no copy and paste rule which was an experiment to see if typing every specific piece of information would help me remember better. Although very time consuming if done early enough in time (weeks before the AP test) I found it very helpful. Also when choosing topics in my group I chose Renaissance, Reformation, and Exploration because there were topics we had covered long ago and decided it would be best to study them first and move towards topic that were already fresh in my mind. I changed this strategy about two weeks before the test and once I finished the Enlightenment I started in the World Wars and progressed to present day. This for one aligned with in class work and test and also seemed would be a large part of the test this year due to the lack of questions on second semester material on the years previous test (gut feeling). Then once that was finished I returned to the Scientific Revolution and then focused on major wars of the next couple century's. Including Crimean wars and German/Italian unification and comparisons of 1848 revolutions to collapse of Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. I did not start taking practice test until the week before the test and mainly focused on my achiever prior. This was also true with DBQs and FRQs although I would recommend earlier practice on these two parts. While studying I have also tried to memorize specific quotes from key figures on certain eras to aid my writing in the upcoming FRQ's. These were my main strategies to preparing for the AP test and in the creation of a relevant and useful review of the Renaissance, Exploration and Reformation.