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Hi there. I'm Dave Siminoff and I'm the founder of Shmoop University

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a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

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I used to be a student to it took a while but I'm almost fully recovered

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from the experience go love this videos teach you about our

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AP prep why learn about our prayer because we can help you improve your AP

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scores

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have a better life conquer the world and have all the options you want

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okay onto the me in order to get

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everything you can are shiny new AP exam prep system

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here's what you gotta do step 1: sign in this month with your username

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and password try not to make your username phone

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username growth or your password password

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because someone is gonna figure that out and will have access to your secret AP

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hideout you probably created your account at some point in the

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not-too-distant past

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but if you tried your brain watching too much reality TV or have the attention

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span of a goldfish

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and can't remember whether your password is you well snarky

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Ricky Jay Wow click on the login like instead entering 47 username and

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password combinations

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that you've used in the past just click the Forgot Password link

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and will fedex a new one right over Tia or better yet will send one

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email that we won't even have to sign for it okay step 2

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log in and prepare your brain for all things a

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he you will not be learning about angry protest turns

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armed peacocks or aristocratic peanuts

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rather this is where you do your AP exam training

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thats AP for Advanced Placement not as exciting

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as cameras partridges reno anyway

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go ahead and click on my passes below your username in the top right if you

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have

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access to more than one test prep guide you nonsmokers you'll see everything you

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are listed here

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my passes like a ticket to a carnival cruise where you get to play minigolf

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I'm a rock wall

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in splash around the wave pool except instead of other super fun things we

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have test prep just as fun

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route with capital zeros you know Sep 3

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anyway click on the AP you'd like to study States AP Calculus

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now Alice you're officially file announcement radical

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and arrived in Wonderland we like to call the dashboard the dashboard is here

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to help you stay

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on late for those very important dates in May the baby training were calling

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Duty Modern Warefare

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this would be your headquarters you have everything you need here

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mental armor brain weaponry and full rationed

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AP know how even more delicious and cost effective than the garbage from that

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will be an engineer Holloway

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expiration 1977 so

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would he do first want to stop crying and someone has how the amniotic fluid

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of you take a look at your dashboard it's basically a table and a p-type

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contents

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here you'll find anything and everything you need to study for the AP exam step

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4:

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start with the overview knowing exactly how the test is set up

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is just as important as knowing what material will be tested this is in the

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Terms and Conditions page on your most recent

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iTunes upgrade you're the big three topics

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the test breakdown the strategy

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and the list of topics next move on to the real need the subject

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USDA grade astronaut or key for that

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to Hooters if you've been dying to know what Buzz Lightyear has to do with

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advanced mathematics

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you can jet over to the limits at infinity section and get complete

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low-down mister potato head will give you an arm and a leg

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or two section breakdown sorry

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that was a break dance here's a breakdown let's take a look at one

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section in particular

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each topic page has two scoops where the raisins for your brain serial let's

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bring up RAM

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so you won't have to make a beeline facilities after you can stroll through

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the narrative to pick up the tools of the trade along with tips for

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remembering the core skills you'll need a master

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when you start to feel comfortable he didn't go well you can't stop sweating

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in your thinking you might take calculus out on a second date

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start exercising in drilling to access the drills

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direct your attention to the sidebar on left to the page

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the drill questions are set up like the prospects is am

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but our time in other words you can take all the livelong day

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adult life to short remember to do something outside

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moved to any skill in drill until your heart's content you'll always be able to

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look at answer explanations and save your work so that you can review past

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mistakes

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and like when your Facebook courage last night

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if you're still jonesing for additional practice some other pages also have

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exercises to test you on specific topics

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tracks is these exercises good any topic page and click on the exercises button

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in the top right corner

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love the orange navigation bar once you reviewed reviewed review tomorrow and

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then drilled up a storm

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you should be ready for practice exam is a full length and the real deal

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you free to sit down and take one gonna be a whopping three hours and 15 minutes

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to make sure you set your DVR to record this week's episode of Cake Boss

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or take only particular sections to get your timing down

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our price: exams are just like taking the real thing and may even be a bit

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harder

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so get ready let your brain sweat let's take a section together now

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hold our hand here we go you have your you need any smoke weed pollen you along

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tone and rhythm this widget keeps track of time

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the number questions on which you guessed and questions you want to return

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to

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they treat you poorly once but maybe a change

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when you finished you can save your work see results and check the answer

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explanations

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there's also a projected score this is no magic number

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but it's our best guess as to how your raw score would converse into a final

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AP score 125 if he didn't deliver a gold medal winning performance don't worry

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their multiple full-length exams times more drills and more review to be done

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as you get your study on it time to go back to your dashboard

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it'll show you how many shrines you burned and how many topics drills and

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exams you covered

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keep studying until you feel like you could take the AP with your eyes closed

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but don't do that eyes open good eyes closed that

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also while we're at it fire bad

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walking bad like there's a burger flipper really

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really that remember you are free get creative with this tool so use it how

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you please

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we're here to help if you ever have any questions or comments

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email us that support attachment dot com

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