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* improving speed in reading and retaining historical information, such as answering history questions quickly

* dealing with [[liberal]] bias in the selection and presentation of questions on College Board exams

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Common mistakes by students in history courses include:

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* failure to recognize that American politics is always a battle between two sides

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* memorizing dates without understanding the sequence of events (exams rarely ask about dates, but do ask about sequence)

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* misunderstanding questions

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* forgetting that people in the past were not much different from people today; they were motivated by religion, money, power, etc.

== The Key to Mastering History ==

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