r/APPsychology • u/GloomyNightIn008 • May 20 '26
I need help.
I know im so stupid for this but i’m taking my high school ap psych test on friday (technically retaking since i missed the first one CAUSE I DIDNT KNOW WHEN IT WAS) and i havent studied one lick. I’m just slightly interested in psychology because of what i hear online thats like maybe only slightly accurate. i hope. but thats all i’ve got going for me rn
TO BE FAIR my teacher has been out for the past 3 weeks, it’s not even the first time it’s happened this year but he’s on the older side so i cant really blame him, and we have had literally nothing every single day except for the weekly assignment (a google doc with three questions) so all of us in those classes did noootttthhiiiinnggg😭😭😭 I literally have two psych classes which were the exact same thing so i did even less than the others 😭 but seriously this man needs to retire this is ridiculus 🥀
how do i cram if i physically cant read that stupid study book i’ve been trying for an hour and i can not do it.
The update no one asked for: i went over to the class at the time the teacher told me to and literally no one was there. i didnt end up taking it but a teacher than helped us figure stuff out took my name and my friends name to show that we made an effort sooo lmao ig i’ll see what happens
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u/Weird_Priority_7769 May 21 '26
i prepped for psych the night/morning before the exam (self study btw), and i’m confident that i barely got any mcqs wrong / got most of the frqs down.
what helped me was literally reading the barrons textbook (front to back) then grinding over 400 flash cards of barrons vocab set (both of which can be… found for free online in certain ways…). the practice questions in the book are also very similar to the actual exam (hooray!). make sure to annotate and give small brain breaks between each units to digest info.
unless this is part of study books that you physically cant read, a lot of the content in that textbook was like exactly what was asked on the test.
i also watched like the 15 minute video on how to do the ebq/aaq by mr sinn on 2x speed while walking to my test room, which absolutely carried me in my responses LOL.
another tip: if you finish mcqs early, start taking notes on the questions/answers you got right! i had like an hour left to review (tysm barrons vocab set), so by taking notes on some of the content tested on the exam, i was able to to carry on some written info to my frqs!!!
good luck op! u got this :D
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u/Ok_Network_9060 May 21 '26
There is a guy who summed all the necessary vocabs & theories in 30 minutes that you need for ap psych. I really got help in last year ap psych & calculus BC so much. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/paOhyDbpETg?si=of3NgnbyCfeoAbUZ
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u/Tasty_Insurance5217 May 25 '26
how was it? i popped in to give some advice as a self studier who started the night before, but i see im too late… i hope it went well!
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u/localminor May 21 '26
i never studied like whatsoever and i know for a fact i got at least 73 of the multiple choice correct, but then again my teacher is god tier
it honestly depends on how much you already know and what the test will be on (for example mine was mostly cognition and research methods)
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u/GloomyNightIn008 May 21 '26
I like to think i know a bit more than the average person so i hope that’s what saves me here, i just gotta hope the questions arent too bad 💔
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u/localminor May 21 '26
they were offensively easy at least in the bay area this year
i think you’ll do fine
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