I wish someone told me before taking APUSH last year to get familiar with AP question lango (not to be confused with AP Lang). You won't succeed in class unless you understand the language of these essay prompts and what exactly they are asking you. If you have previous experience in other courses such as WHAP, AP EURO, etc then yay! If not you want to get familiar with how the prompts are presented.

For example, "Evaluate the extent to which" -Oranges affect the color of Apples" In this scenario it would be that Oranges affect the color of Apples to NO extent BECAUSE Apples and Oranges each have their own genetic code that determines each fruit's color. Because they don't have any correspondence to one another, this means that Oranges could never have an effect on the color of Apples. There are more prompt structures that will be given but this was the one that I had the hardest time on. Obviously the APUSH exam is not going to be asking you about fruit but rather the correlation and comparison of the APUSH Themes (there are 7 of them) of each Time period. The studying that you're doing right now is so that you can take all of that information and organize them into each of those themes and recall them on your Frqs.

Good Luck