<p>If I can convince my counselor to let me take AP Bio sophomore year should I? I had 105.6 percent as my first semester grade in Regular Biology (2nd highest in school- would be first, but I mess around in class) , and will probably have a close score for for the 2nd semester. For every Bio test, I've always had the highest score in the school. I want to take AP Bio so I have all of the Bio info fresh in my mind. Is this a good or bad idea?</p>
<p>Take both next year? Shouldn’t be too difficult.</p>
<p>In my honest opinion, Regular Biology wont help you out too much if you make the leap to AP Bio. If you mess around in regular Bio, then AP Bio is gonna be tough. But it should be manageable depending on how many honors/APs you plan to take, and if you actually take AP Bio seriously.</p>
<p>At my school you must have Chemistry before AP Bio. This is because we need to understand things on the molecular level before we can grasp the broad terms in Biology. You may find yourself asking “Why?” a lot in Biology. Like why Adenine bonds with Thymine, well Chemistry will answer this for you.
I took Honors Chem and Honors Physics this year and I will take AP Bio next. At my school it is a 2 course sequence. First semester is the equivalent of a Honors Bio 2 or Pre-AP, then second semester is AP. This is great because we have a whole semester to review before we jump into AP.</p>
<p>You need to know “general” Chemistry for AP Bio, but you certainly don’t NEED to take Chemistry to succeed in AP Bio.</p>
<p>I took Chem concurrently with AP Bio and I got a five. And in Chem, we would learn stuff that we went over in Biology like three months after the fact.</p>
<p>^ I took honors chem at the same time as AP bio, and I got a 5 as well. The way my class was taught at least, it really wasn’t that difficult if you didn’t know chem well. Taking AP chem this year has clarified some things, but they weren’t crucial.</p>