<p>I dont know whether I should take AP Bio next year or AP Chem. The AP Bio teacher is a jerk, he has me this year for regular chem, and he hates me. His chem class is hard, and his AP BIO class has two As, in a class of like 15-20. Im really good (like really good) at Bio, but I suck at Chem. With AP Chem, the teacher is horrible, and its medium-difficulty to get an A, but it is definetley do-able. So what path should I choose? AP Chem or AP Bio? If you tell me AP Chem, can u also suggest how I can get better at Chem??</p>
<p>Also take into consideration my schedule for next year:</p>
<p>1 - Ap Pysch
2 - Ap USH
3 - Adv Math Analysis (HP)
4- AP ES
6 - AP ENGLISH COMP
7 - PE
* AP Bio/ AP Chem ????</p>
<p>AP Bio was much, much easier for me (even though I generally like chem better...it was just that our chem teacher didn't teach at all.)</p>
<p>But if you want to do AP Chem, just get the the Princeton Review book for it over the summer, and familiarize yourself with the content beforehand.</p>
<p>Wait, I forgot something...apparently in AP Bio its hard as **** to get an A first semester, but its easier to get an A second semester....with AP Chem i dont know but 1st semester i think quite a few ppl get As, and 2nd semester, I think very few people have As. What should I do???</p>
<p>i would say AP Chem for junior year. i took ap bio junior year and it was much much easier for me than ap chem. also i think it's harder for me to do ap chem now because i don't really feel like doing work anymore since this whole college thing is over so it's harder for me to get through the work. i'd say do something you enjoy and will be easier for you sernior year</p>
<p>If the AP psych and AP bio actually complement each other in a lot of ways. I've also heard that AP Environmental does too but that was on an AP board a little while back and I can't remmeber if that's what somebody said. Go for AP bio.</p>
<p>AP Chem is really easy (I think, at least). My teacher is very good, though... You just have a much better grasp on the concepts 'the second time around.' The first half of the year, I barely learned any new content (it was all supplementing stuff that I already knew from H Chem). Now we're getting into some new stuff... but the workload isn't as bad as AP Bio's at all. You don't have to read as much, and you adapt to doing psets (if you have to do them at all). Last year, my friends and I would take weeks to do psets... and then have a pset party the night before they were do, and spend about five hours going over all of the problems. Now, I procrastinate until about 8:00 the night before, and do all of the problems in about an hour and a half. You get used to it pretty quickly =) Considering your schedule, I would definitely suggest AP Chem. It's easier to learn Chem with a terrible teacher than learn Bio with one... in my opinion.</p>
<p>AP Chem also sometimes helps with APES.... AP Bio might help more, I guess, but the bio that is involved with APES is so elementary that AP Bio kids don't really have an advantage, anyway.</p>
<p>AP Bio because you are better at it. It means you have more interest in the subject and will do better in the class and on the SATIIs. Have you taken Physics? If not, take it instead of AP Bio or AP Chem. Physics is a must take for every high schooler.</p>
<p>I'm a junior doing AP bio and chem concurrently. For me: the bio class is harder than the chem class. The practice AP tests for Bio are easier though.</p>
<p>I took AP Bio last year and am taking AP Chem this year. I did way better in regular chem than I did in regular bio, but for some reason I aced AP Bio and struggled a bit at the beginning of AP Chem. But that's probably because I was taking about two periods of math at the same time. Do you mind doing a lot of math? Maybe it was just my AP Chem teacher/class, but I felt like we did a whole lot more math than any other science class I'd ever taken before. Mind you, it wasn't difficult math, it was just a lot of calculations. AP Bio was a lot of writing. And I mean so much writing it felt like my hand was going to fall off during the AP exam. So if you hate writing, AP Bio may not be for you (especially considering there are 4 essays on the AP exam).</p>
<p>I assume that the OP has only eight schedule blocks?</p>
<p>My advice is to pursue biology. I've had to work through several mean/unhelpful teachers in subjects I liked, and I have to say it only proved conducive to my education. I worked harder. I understood the subject more.</p>
<p>when I went to the Apush meeting, everyone advised me NOT to take AP bio together w/ that course b/c both courses require a lot of reading. but then again this is my school, it may differ it may not</p>
<p>AP Bio does have a lot of reading. Many times, we go through 5 chapters a week!!</p>
<p>It is still possible to get an A without reading too much if you have Campbell 7th edition. That book has a lot of great diagrams.</p>
<p>However, Is till think that the harder AP histories have way more reading than bio since you must read much more in-depth. Not that Bio isn't in-depth; it just doesn't have so many fine details.</p>
<p>I worry the most this semester about my AP world and ap bio grade. World because of all the readings I missed (I still have a 99.2% in the class, but a bad test grade could change that) and Bio because I have a low B.</p>