Is taking AP Biology in 10th grade a good idea?
AP Human Geography will also be taken in 10th grade.
And right now you’re in 8th grade. So my answer is the same as on your last thread: “While it’s great that you’re doing a prelim 4 year plan, know that it will probably change over time. You might be a bored 8th grader now, but HS is totally different than MS. Revisit your 10th through 12th grade plans next Spring.”
In the future, these types of questions are fairly useless with no context. You should, to get decent responses that don’t require a lot of back and forth questions, share the entire 4-year plan, or at the very least, for this example, the entire 10th grade schedule plus the 4 year science plan.
But short answer, unless your HS is one of the few that does not have prereqs for AP Bio (or AP Chem), you should knock out bio and chem honors before considering AP Bio/Chem. And even then, you should either do physics first, or take physics concurrently if it does not impact another core subject.
I agree…take Honors Bio /Honors Chem before you take AP Bio/AP Chem.
Can you recite the details of the Krebs Cycle? Apply and interpret the Hardy-Weinberg equation? Explain how signal pathways mediate gene expression?
There is a huge amount of studying involved with AP Biology, and the chances of getting some grade other than an A are very high. This is a class that is best taken as a senior, after you have already been admitted somewhere.
Edit: If and when you do take it, spend quality time over the summer with Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology
My daughter too AP Bio in 10th concurrently with honors Chem (and AP Calc AB). Bio was a lot of work but it is doable. She ended up with an A+ in the class and just found out she got a 5 on the AP test.
Almost all the smart kids at my kid’s HS took AP Bio in 10th after taking H Bio in 9th. 10th graders are allowed only one AP and it was the only AP available (no WHAP).
Our school requires at least one year of chem before taking AP Bio so the sequence is usually BioH, ChemH, APBio and/or APChem.
you should really wait to make major decisions. Schools have their own policies so we can’t tell you what your school allows.
At my daughter’s high school you need to take honors bio in 9th grade and honors chemistry in 10th grade (8th grade classes don’t count no matter what/where you take them) then you can take AP bio in 11th though AP Physics is preferred then AP bio or AP chem in 12th grade.
Our school requires two years of US History (even if taking APUSH) and 1 year lf modern world/APWorld but does not offer AP Human Geography. Most kids take pscyhology, sociology, government, economics etc to get a 4th year of social studies.
Our school is the same as the above, and I’d also recommend getting a base/honors course in all three sciences - bio, chem, physics - before AP in any of them.
My friend took AP Bio and APHUG both in 9th grade, and got 5s on both of them. BTW he took two other APs his freshman year and got 5s on those two as well.
I agree that this question is premature, but there are many schools that offer AP Bio sophomore year, some even freshman year. I think it’s very much school dependent. Even in our district, different high schools have different science sequences. I would stick with the recommended sequence your school recommends so that you can have the prerequisites to be successful.