Government: get familiar with the basic set up of Congress, the process of passing a bill, the 14th amendment, the process of devolution and federalism, and selective incorporation. I had AP Gov this last year, and it seems like it always came back to those things. Start reading your textbook, of course, if you have it, and take notes.

Piano: sorry, no idea. Practice?

Pre-AP Chemistry: start studying the periodic table of elements. You probably won’t have to actually memorize it, but you’ll need to be pretty darn familiar with it! Find a list of common polyatomic ions, too. I remember spending a lot of time on titrations and then net ionic equations, too, but that was more in AP Chem. Electron dot diagrams, the different energy levels. I think Nomenclature played a big role in pre-AP Chem, and basic Stoichiometry. I personally did almost nothing for pre-AP Chem first semester and barely got an A; so I read the second half of my Chemistry book over Christmas break and made detailed outlines for each chapter… we ended up not actually covering most of that anyway, lol, but it certainly made that second semester much easier.

PreAP Calc: I suggest taking math as it comes. We had “pre-AP pre-Calc” before AP at my school, and it BARELY went into derivatives, so your class may be different. We spent a lot of time on Conics, if I recall, and we did matrices. But I wouldn’t worry too much about getting ahead in math; just take it as it comes. During the class, if you get a print-off of all the assignments for a chapter go ahead and take a few hours to do the whole chapter—then you won’t have to worry about math for the rest of the week and can focus on other things.

AP U.S. History: APUSH is primarily a TON of reading. To get a head start, you might just start reading your book. Take good notes, you’ll want them later. If you don’t have your textbook yet, go ahead and get an AP review to start with—it’ll cover the important points. You might take a look at the problems with the Articles of Confederation, they were important for the first while in class and for later understanding the Constitution. Marbury v. Madison will be very important. If you can find information about the presidents you should study that, and get a good list of important court cases. As you go through the class, ALWAYS keep up with the reading—if you don’t, that’s the type of reading that very quickly adds up to an impossible task!

AP English: is it Literature or Language? Try to find out what books you’ll be reading in class and go ahead and read them. You’ll probably want to re-read them when you get to them in class, but you’ll be much better off if you stay ahead. Do a search for AP English vocabulary—there are lists of words that appear often on the AP tests that you’ll probably be tested over in class over the year and will need to be familiar with.

AP Comp Science: Sorry, no idea. Look up what’s on the AP test on www.collegeboard.com to see what you need to study for it.

AP Spanish: I’m not familiar with this one, either. I am, however, having to study French by myself right now… I took French 2 my senior year and then (partially because I took 4 years of Latin and partially because I’m just great at guessing) I managed to test straight into the third semester of French for my first semester of college (some of my friends with AP behind them only tested into the second semester…). So anyway, get a Grammar for Spanish, and use it to review the grammar concepts. Review any material you still have from last year (vocab, notes, the part of your workbook you might not have gotten to in class). You also might want to find vocabulary flashcards. If you have your textbook, start working through it (I translated my whole Latin 4 book the summer before I had the class and did ALL of the exercises in it… which certainly made the class a breeze, lol, and I did learn Latin in the process).

French 1: don’t sweat it. Especially with another Romance language, taking French 1 is really easy. If you want to, find out how to conjugate basic French verbs and get some basic vocabulary. Try this website (I actually found this when I was trying to learn some Italian before a vacation to Rome, but they have French as well): http://www.ielanguages.com/french.html .

For any and all of your classes: start reading the text books! If you haven’t gotten them yet or won’t get them until school starts, you can get AP review books for those subjects and start reading them. Use them as you go through the class to cement important ideas in your mind, too. Try to stay a bit ahead at all times through the courses: I find that I’m more willing to work harder when I’m doing it on my own time for my own advanced benefit, and so I actually get things done that I would procrastinate on or never do if and when they’re assigned, lol. Before you get to the classes, though, you can still do a lot: Just run a Google search on your subjects and start learning—there’s a lot of good information out there. I actually find that Wikipedia is a great place for this—perhaps it’s not the most reliable source, but you can get a basic understanding of almost anything from it. And you can start with “Chemistry” and follow all sorts of links around to learn about stoich or net ionic equations, etc.; or you can look at a list of all the U.S. Presidents and read about the policies and positions of all of them. You might also go to a library and check out books for your subjects, to get a head start. Get very familiar with College Board’s website for your AP and pre-AP classes—they have information about all of the AP tests, with information about the percent of students who get each score, a thorough list of the topics covered on the test and (in theory) in the class, and past free response questions, and so on.

Good luck!

But if it were me, I’d just devote the next two weeks to studying for the SATs. Just go out and buy a review book (or more than one. The Princeton Review SAT book is good for learning all the basics. The Barrons’ SAT book is good if you already think you can earn high scores (like in the 650s per section or higher) without much preparation, and you just want to get as high a score as possible Buy both. Also, the Official Guide to the New SAT (written by the College Board) and the newest edition of 10 REAL SATS (be careful, you could purchase the one for the old SAT without the writing section by accident) could be very helpful.

goverment

pre ap chem

pre ap cle

ap us hist

ap eng

ap comp sci

ap span 3

freanch 1. so there you go. that is what you can do.

just like read books for ap eng and read for apush. thats all you need to do.

FYI youre not the only one taking the SAT so…. stop whining..

While you’re watching t.v. can be good fun, it is not doing anything to the human brain.