In first place...
Time Management~~!
And why? "Why," you're asking me? Because there's a TON of homework included in this course. It's immensely difficult in the first month or so of the course, I promise you. Especially if you don't possess any of the skills already mentioned in this list--the homework can take hours upon hours to do. I remember, during my first quarter of the course, I was spending at least three hours a night just on APLC work. Sometimes, it would be lighter--sometimes there was none. But on average, I was spending three or more. It got easier around November, but, man, it was tough.
You need to be ready to give some stuff up. Lots of people do sports in school, right? Well, I don't do that, but my course-load involves two languages, physics, AP Lang and more. Yes. Two languages. Korean and German. In order to handle the work for all of my courses, I had to pretty much give up the internet, and cut my dance-time short. It was not the most preferable thing on the planet, but you have to do what you have to do.
So, let's say you have sports. You're doing winter and spring, alright? So you've got conditioning through fall, games during winter, conditioning during late winter, then games all through spring. You're not going to have much time to do what you want, and far be it from me to tell you to drop sports. More power to you for doing them!
Rather than that...isn't there usually a period between the final bell and when practice/conditioning/the game starts? Usually about an hour, if I'm not mistaken. Take that time to do your other courses' work. You can't avoid your other classes just because you have AP Lang, you know. Then, when you get home, eat or whatever, then do more homework. Trust me, it's a million times easier to just get your work out of the way before you do fun stuff. Not only does it oftentimes seem faster, but while you're enjoying yourself, you don't have a boat-load of homework hanging over your head.
It's not going to be easy, it's not going to be fun, but organizing your time is a skill you not only need for APLC, but for life in general. May as well do well in school with a skill you're going to have to possess for the rest of your life, right?
Good luck~!
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