AP Review
Your Review Priority Should Probably Be:
40% Ch 11 12 15 Unit 3 Institutions of Government: Congress, Presidency, Federal Courts. (Also, but less important: Ch 13 14 Budget/Bureaucracy)
15% Ch 6 7 10 Unit 2 Political Beliefs and Behavior
15% Ch 8 9 Political Parties, Interest Groups, Mass Media
10% Ch 1 2 3 Constitutional Underpinnings
10% Ch 4 5 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
10% Ch 16 17 18 Public Policy (you just did this recently--I'd blow it off)
Grading of AP Exam:
1/2 is 60 pt multiple choice
1/2 is 4 x 15 pt FRQs
2014 Scale was:
94-120 5 (Last year 3 students out of 280,000 got a perfect 120--challenge accepted?)
85-93 4
69-84 3
The 2016 Edition of Cram For The Exam. (There is two minutes on the Puerto Rican debt crisis first--don't panic)
The 2015 Edition of Cram for Exam on CSPAN. Every year, two APGoPo teaching all-stars from Adlai E. Stevenson high school in Illinois appear. Students call in / tweet questions. From this page you can see links to prior years at the bottom.
In 2015, Aldrich Quijano got a million extra credit points by getting through on the phone lines, saying "TOTY Cummins", and then answering a question in order to win an autographed copy of the Constitution. That short clip is here.
The entire book (thanks Sharon) "AP Government and Politics Crash Course Test Prep"
Strive For A Five 25 Question Online Exam. Do this more than once, it will change questions randomly.
From ^^^this book, the indispensable 30 Supreme Court Cases you must know.
A single review Quizlet with 355 flashcards.
A list of 220 APGoPo concepts from every released AP question since 1989!
All FRQs ever used on exams from the College Board are here.
Brigham's Quizlet on Supreme Court Cases
Sunday Nights at 6pm, there is a twitter review session, coast to coast. The hashtag is #hsgovchat.
Link to Crash Course U.S. Government on YouTube. Especially good at explaining enumerated, implied, and inherent powers. They have uploaded 50 episodes.
Link to MyCitizenU and their group of videos on APGoPo. The same two teachers from the CSPAN call-in show. There are quick review videos on every conceivable APGoPo topic.
Link to Crazy Huge Centralized List of Exam Prep Resources. Includes youtube playlists, quizlets, jeopardy, and a whole lot more. This is pretty amazing. Students coast to coast will be using this one-sheet bonanza. Let me know if any of the links are dead. This is the 2015 version.
Within that huge list of resources, here's a document that breaks down each unit. These units match with ours. So, if you need a refresher on some units, but not others, give this a try.
Real Review -- very short--includes court cases.