Which one do you think is harder/which one has a reputation at your school for being the more difficult class? I know for sure AP Chem is seen as harder at my school but that might be in part because the teacher for it at my school likes to make things harder than they need to be
This depends on several factors:
a) Your teacher (and the amount of work he/she gives)
b) Your own abilities (Humanities vs STEM?)
c) What time you have the class
Chem and Bio are tied at my school. See [url=<a href=“http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/student_services/assets/academic_advising/ap_course_expectations.pdf%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/student_services/assets/academic_advising/ap_course_expectations.pdf]here[/url] for more insight. (Not my school btw, just something I found on my AP workload hunt).
Collegeboard puts AP Bio on a higher pedestal…
Based upon what?
I agree with @TheSlacker16 . The answer is “it depends.”
At my school AP Chem has a reputation of being harder I think. Because of our science sequence, most students take AP Chem a year before AP Bio and it’s their first experience in a senior lab science. Our AP Chem course is very lab-intensive (which means our teacher has to cover content more quickly), and most of the labs are very time-pressured.
Both are equally hard at my school
Someone answer my thread http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1802942-will-taking-apes-and-ap-chem-in-the-same-semester-be-too-confusing.html#latest
It depends on what you are good at. AP Bio is a lot about fact memorization and regurgitation while chem is more about applying things you learned (all the equations) to answer questions. If you are better at memorization than application then Bio will be easier and if the opposite is true Chem will be easier.