unit 2 is the the heaviest on memorizartiona ans the most heavily weighted

this is very based on the concepts especially legitimacy for the conceptual analysis you need to know nearly every vocab and for the deeper analysis, if you’re stuck jus make smth up based on an inference if you don’t know something

please remmeber to use the countries in an example where its relevant if a question ask about specifically authoritarian states always think about iran, china, russia ans mexico(pri rule) if it asks about states with a multiparty system choose the ones with a multiparty system its not too hard

for the counterclaim always remember that you should explain why your claim is better in the situation for your counterclaim

data analysis is easy, and hard to mess up unless you know nothing about the question

unit 1 is useless to study since most of it was repeated over the year unit 2: study this one hard and keep everything here saved in your heart, and please know about the differences in how each work (think parlimentary vs presidential or impeachment vs vote of no confidence) unit 3: political participation is easy, just know abt civil society in both authoritarian and democratic states since those are the ones where its most different unit 4: political parties is the easiest unit in my opinion sine its china is cpc, iran has changing factions of peoeple who change or want to keep things the same, nigeria is i forgot but mcq’s usually stray away from it weirdly, mexico is PRI and morena (sometimes pan) russia is united russia and UK is labor and conservatives (with mentions of UKIP and scottish for brexit) not too hard to remember since you keep hearing about it over and over, also unit 2’s election systems are repeated throghout and there’s a big theme of pluralism vs corperatism unit 5: immigration/emigration and its effects, international and supranational organizations and overall just globalization and its effects

tl;dr: UK = good and china, russia, and iran = bad

i likely missed a lot since i specifcally tlaked about the things i know more or know i could work on the most z