Not if your teacher’s any good.

You think they don’t know about Sparknotes, Cliff notes, classic comics, etc.? In most AP classes, plagiarism lifted from such sources is an automatic failure. Assignments and tests are designed to ensure only those who actually read the material can answer or do the work.

An AP student who doesn’t feel like doing the assigned reading is one who’ll do poorly on the AP exam which gives college credit, too.

I also am taking AP classes next school year and have 3 books to read and 3 essays to write about those books that I have to finish in about 3 weeks before school starts. No, you will not continue to do well by using sites such as Sparknotes because not every book is on these sites (I know because I tried looking up all 3 of my books on many, many sites, and they are not on them.) Plus, from the classes I have already taken I can tell you that the questions, in my classes at least, go more in depth then the book notes do. The last thing you want is to fail a test because you didn’t read the book. I use the book notes to help better understand the book, but never alone. From my experience, if you don’t actually read the book, you won’t do that well in your AP classes. If you want to take an advanced class, you have got to be willing to do advanced work.

When I was taking AP Lit, I used sparknotes all the time!

It’s a great reference site, that helped me with a great deal of my assignments. I don’t see any harm in using sparknotes, as long as you’re able to analyze the shortened material. Because the main point of AP Lit is to teach you how to interpret what you have read and relate it to the “human condition”. So if you can do that, by all means take a short cut.

The AP test will have an open ended question though, that asks you to write about a specific book you read that has literary merit. So it is in your best interested to know at least one classic book by heart, and be able to discuss it thoroughly in essay form.

So my advice is to use sparknotes, but use it wisely. And if you see that you’re struggling in class by just reading the overview, then you should put the effort in to read the entire book.

Good luck!

if you’re taking honors biology you are going to have an choice of taking the AP biology scan if you happen to desire – likewise with every other path. However from enjoy, I have taken Honors Biology and am now in AP Biology and the AP path is a lot more in-intensity and rigorous. If you’re inclined to spend plenty of additional effort and time (however a ebook and so on.) then it can be necessary. It finally depends upon whether or not or now not you took the AP scan that is the identifying aspect on whether or not or now not you’re eligible to obtain such credit score (you rating badly at the scan and also you dont get credit score despite the fact that you have got an A within the elegance, likewise, you’ll get a five (the satisfactory rating) at the AP scan and havea C within the elegance and you are going to be eligible for credit score). additionally, if you happen to plan on majoring within the field you’re taking an AP elegance for, by and large instances faculties will provide you credit score hours for scoring good however make you’re taking their elegance in that field in any case. well good fortune!

Not if you have a good teacher. If you have a good AP teacher, they will have read spark notes, cliff notes, pink notes, and the book itself and know how to differentiate the novel itself from the sites that just give an overview of what the book is about. AP goes more in depth with its novels.

Just read the books, sparknotes does nothing if they are good teachers.

I would read them, and then use spark notes to review. You will not be able to pass the AP tests without reading your books.

depends. my ap classes were mostly discussion. if your teacher sucks, then youre fine. but if you have a teach looking to actually get into the meterial, you might be in trouble. just read the damn books