The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have it. Sigh, fine. I AM LAZY AND I PROCRASTINATE AND AP EXAMS ARE IN LIKE TWO WEEKS PLEASE HELP ME. Alright, alright, listen up. This isn’t going to be a walk in the park. Two weeks 
is plenty of time to prepare for your exam(s), no worries there, but it’s not going to be easy. If you’re anything like me, it will be a struggle to actually work up the motivation to sit down and study free from distraction, but I promise you that it will be well worth it in the end. I’ll be right here beside you, feeling your pain and cheering you on. Are you ready? Let’s get started then.
STEP 1: Make a plan and stick to it
Planning out your time is probably the most vital step to success. I’m not going to tell you how to plan, because that’s something that you need to figure out for yourself. You know what you need to do to be successful better than anyone else does. If you’re not sure where to start, take a practice exam to find where your weaknesses are and start with the material you have a hard time with. I would recommend planning in daily chunks, while taking into account your own schedule. I have a hard time staying focused at home for long periods of time, so I plan in 15-minute blocks with small breaks in between, that way I don’t get discouraged and give up because I get distracted too easily.
STEP 2: If you haven’t already, take a practice exam
I would take a practice exam before you take on the daunting task of going back through all of the course material. As I mentioned before, it will give you a good idea of what you need to work on and allow you to better use your time as to master the concepts that you are having a harder time grasping.
STEP 3: Hit the books, honey.
This is by far the longest, hardest and most challenging part of exam prep: actually studying without wanting to throw your books against the wall and rip out your hair. I am the absolute last person who 
should be telling you how to study because in all honesty, in my whole 17 years, I have failed quite miserably at even finding a way to study myself. If reading and highlighting and making cue cards works for you, do it. If watching videos helps, do it. If doing loads upon loads of practice questions helps you, by all means do it. Make a Mind Map, write all over a whiteboard, talk out loud like you’re teaching someone else. Do whatever it is that helps you feel like you’re learning what you need to learn. Break down your study time into digestible chunks and don’t try to do everything at once. It took me a long time to learn that, and I’m still having to remind myself to compartmentalize in terms of what I need to know. Instead of looking at the material as this gigantic sandwich that you need to eat, break it down into the bread, the cheese, the tomatoes, the lettuce and so on and so forth.
STEP 4: Take more practice tests
Now that you’ve gone through the material in your own way and you feel comfortable with it, take another practice test and time yourself, then go through and see how you’ve done. 60 multiple choice questions should take roughly 90 minutes and 8 free response should also take around an hour and a half. When working on free response, don’t write in full sentences or show all of your work. Make a draft of what you’d actually do to see if you’re hitting all of the correct points instead of wasting time writing some sort of masterpiece. The grading system differs slightly from exam to exam, so tally up your points based on correct answers and in the case of free response, the number of points you would have covered based on what would have been expected. If you’re sitting between a high 3 and a 5, you’re in good territory.
If you feel like you still need to go back and review more, like I said before, do what you need to do to feel prepared and like you’re comfortable with the material. Remember, you don’t need to get a 90% to score a 5!
STEP 5: The day and night before, and the morning of
The day before the exam, feel free to study during the day if you can, but after supper, it’s getting to be time to unwind, relax and make sure that you’re mentally and physically prepared. Don’t stay up to all hours, don’t try to cram, just go to bed at a decent hour and get a good night sleep. I would prepare everything you need for the morning the night before as well, so you’re not freaking out and running around like a chicken with its head cut off in the morning wondering where all of your stuff is. Eat a good breakfast because you’re going to be in a test for three hours. I know it’s easier said than done, but just try to stay calm and not worry too much. Some nerves are good, but if you have test anxiety, which I had never experienced until my first diploma, suddenly one exam seems to be a much bigger obstacle. It’s okay, it’s not the end of the world and it’s sure not going to determine your future.
STEP 6: During the exam
In the multiple choice section, my go-to strategy is to go through all of the questions, immediately answer the ones I know first and skip over the ones that I don’t know the answer to immediately. Once you’ve gone through everything, go back over it. This is not like a diploma where you have over two hours to do 60 some odd question. This is 90 minutes. This is not only a test in what you know, but how fast you can write an exam. If at the end, you still have unanswered problems and you have no idea what to put, just pick a random answer; you aren’t penalized for wrong answers and leaving a space blank goes you no more good than putting the wrong answer. Free response is a bit trickier, depending on the subject. My only advice to you is to plan your time wisely, do the questions worth the most first and don’t worry about spelling, grammar and all that jazz. As long as your ideas hit the page, you should be just fine. 
